Arctic mercury cycling

A Dastoor, H Angot, J Bieser, JH Christensen… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Anthropogenic mercury (Hg) emissions have driven marked increases in Arctic Hg levels,
which are now being impacted by regional warming, with uncertain ecological …

Changing state of Arctic sea ice across all seasons

J Stroeve, D Notz - Environmental Research Letters, 2018‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The decline in the floating sea ice cover in the Arctic is one of the most striking
manifestations of climate change. In this review, we examine this ongoing loss of Arctic sea …

Regime shift in Arctic Ocean sea ice thickness

H Sumata, L de Steur, DV Divine, MA Granskog… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Manifestations of climate change are often shown as gradual changes in physical or
biogeochemical properties. Components of the climate system, however, can show stepwise …

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 …

Increasing ocean stratification over the past half-century

G Li, L Cheng, J Zhu, KE Trenberth, ME Mann… - Nature Climate …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Seawater generally forms stratified layers with lighter waters near the surface and denser
waters at greater depth. This stable configuration acts as a barrier to water mixing that …

Key indicators of Arctic climate change: 1971–2017

JE Box, WT Colgan, TR Christensen… - Environmental …, 2019‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Key observational indicators of climate change in the Arctic, most spanning a 47 year period
(1971–2017) demonstrate fundamental changes among nine key elements of the Arctic …

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 …

Phytoplankton dynamics in a changing Arctic Ocean

M Ardyna, KR Arrigo - Nature Climate Change, 2020‏ - nature.com
Abstract Changes in the Arctic atmosphere, cryosphere and Ocean are drastically altering
the dynamics of phytoplankton, the base of marine ecosystems. This Review addresses four …

The Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Gyre

ML Timmermans, JM Toole - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
The Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Gyre is a dominant feature of the Arctic system, a prominent
indicator of climate change, and possibly a control factor for high-latitude climate. The state …

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 …