Satellite infrared observations of the eastern Bering Sea shelf and basin were analyzed from December 1979 to August 1981. A region of warm surface water which extends from the Gulf of Alaska through the Aleutian Passes into the Bering Sea was observed coincident with a band of warm surface water and with eddies along the shelf break. The spatial and temporal relationships of these patterns imply a surface inflow through Unimak and other western Aleutian Passes, flow along the shelf break including eddies along the Bering Slope Current, and cyclonic flow in the basin. The proposed generating mechanisms for eddies along the shelf break include topographic interactions, baroclinic instabilities, and Rossby waves.