Understanding Arctic Ocean circulation: A review of ocean dynamics in a changing climate

ML Timmermans, J Marshall - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Arctic Ocean is a focal point of climate change, with ocean warming,
freshening, sea‐ice decline, and circulation that link to the changing atmospheric and …

Freshwater and its role in the Arctic Marine System: Sources, disposition, storage, export, and physical and biogeochemical consequences in the Arctic and global …

EC Carmack, M Yamamoto‐Kawai… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Arctic Ocean is a fundamental node in the global hydrological cycle and the
ocean's thermohaline circulation. We here assess the system's key functions and …

Polar regions

MP Meredith, M Sommerkorn… - The ocean and …, 2019 - research.monash.edu
This chapter assesses the state of physical, biological and social knowledge concerning the
Arctic and Antarctic ocean and cryosphere, how they are affected by climate change, and …

Greater role for Atlantic inflows on sea-ice loss in the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean

IV Polyakov, AV Pnyushkov, MB Alkire, IM Ashik… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Arctic sea-ice loss is a leading indicator of climate change and can be attributed, in large
part, to atmospheric forcing. Here, we show that recent ice reductions, weakening of the …

Borealization of the Arctic Ocean in response to anomalous advection from sub-Arctic seas

IV Polyakov, MB Alkire, BA Bluhm, KA Brown… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
An important yet still not well documented aspect of recent changes in the Arctic Ocean is
associated with the advection of anomalous sub-Arctic Atlantic-and Pacific-origin waters and …

Arctic warming hotspot in the northern Barents Sea linked to declining sea-ice import

S Lind, RB Ingvaldsen, T Furevik - Nature climate change, 2018 - nature.com
The Arctic has warmed dramatically in recent decades, with greatest temperature increases
observed in the northern Barents Sea. The warming signatures are not constrained to the …

[HTML][HTML] Weakening of cold halocline layer exposes sea ice to oceanic heat in the eastern Arctic Ocean

IV Polyakov, TP Rippeth, I Fer, MB Alkire… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Weakening of Cold Halocline Layer Exposes Sea Ice to Oceanic Heat in the Eastern Arctic
Ocean in: Journal of Climate Volume 33 Issue 18 (2020) Jump to Content Jump to Main …

Divergence in climate model projections of future Arctic Atlantification

M Muilwijk, A Nummelin, C Heuzé… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Arctic Ocean is strongly stratified by salinity in the uppermost layers. This
stratification is a key attribute of the region as it acts as an effective barrier for the vertical …

[HTML][HTML] The role of Atlantic heat transport in future Arctic winter sea ice loss

M Årthun, T Eldevik, LH Smedsrud - Journal of Climate, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Role of Atlantic Heat Transport in Future Arctic Winter Sea Ice Loss in: Journal of Climate
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Leads in Arctic pack ice enable early phytoplankton blooms below snow-covered sea ice

P Assmy, M Fernández-Méndez, P Duarte, A Meyer… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The Arctic icescape is rapidly transforming from a thicker multiyear ice cover to a thinner and
largely seasonal first-year ice cover with significant consequences for Arctic primary …