Anomalous circulation in the Pacific sector of the Arctic Ocean in July–December 2008

Particulate organic carbon (POC) is one of main component of carbon cycle in the Ocean. In this study an attempt to construct a picture of the distribution and fluxes of POC in the Arctic Ocean adjusting for interchange with the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans has been made. The specificity of this construction is associated with an irregular distribution of POC measurements and complicated structure and hydrodynamics of the waters masses. To overcome these difficulties, Multiple Linear Regression technic (MLR) was performed to test the significant relation between POC, temperature, salinity, as well depth, horizon, latitude and offshore distance. The mapping of POC distribution and its fluxes was carrying out at 38 horizons from 5 to 4150 m (resolution 1°×1°). Data on temperature, salinity, meridional and zonal components of current velocities were obtained from ORA S4 database (Integrated Climate Data Center, http://icdc.cen.uni-hamburg.de/las). The import-export of POC between the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as well as between Arctic Seas was precomputed by summer fluxes. The import of POC in the Arctic Ocean is estimated to be 38±8Tg Cyr-1, and the export is -9.5±4.4Tg Cyr-1.

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Modelling the effect of boundary scavenging on Thorium and Protactinium profiles in the ocean

Biogeosciences Discussions ◽

10.5194/bgd-6-7853-2009 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 7853-7896 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

M. Roy-Barman

Keyword(s):

Arctic Ocean ◽

Water Column ◽

Open Ocean ◽

The Arctic ◽

Transport Parameters ◽

Lateral Transport ◽

Transport Reaction ◽

The Pacific ◽

The Arctic Ocean ◽

Boundary Scavenging

Abstract. The "boundary scavenging" box model is a cornerstone of our understanding of the particle-reactive radionuclide fluxes between the open ocean and the ocean margins. However, it does not describe the radionuclide profiles in the water column. Here, I present the transport-reaction equations for radionuclides transported vertically by reversible scavenging on settling particles and laterally by horizontal currents between the margin and the open ocean. Analytical solutions of these equations are compared with existing data. In the Pacific Ocean, the model produces "almost" linear 230Th profiles (as observed in the data) despite lateral transport. However, omitting lateral transport biased the 230Th based particle flux estimates by as much as 50%. 231Pa profiles are well reproduced in the whole water column of the Pacific Margin and from the surface down to 3000 m in the Pacific subtropical gyre. Enhanced bottom scavenging or inflow of 231Pa-poor equatorial water may account for the model-data discrepancy below 3000 m. The lithogenic 232Th is modelled using the same transport parameters as 230Th but a different source function. The main source of 232Th scavenged in the open Pacific is advection from the ocean margin, whereas a net flux of 230Th produced in the open Pacific is advected and scavenged at the margin, illustrating boundary exchange. In the Arctic Ocean, the model reproduces 230Th measured profiles that the uni-dimensional scavenging model or the scavenging-ventilation model failed to explain. Moreover, if lateral transport is ignored, the 230Th based particle settling speed may by underestimated by a factor 4 at the Arctic Ocean margin. The very low scavenging rate in the open Arctic Ocean combined with the enhanced scavenging at the margin accounts for the lack of high 231Pa/230Th ratio in arctic sediments.

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The Mass Balance of the Sea Ice of the Arctic Ocean

Journal of Glaciology ◽

10.3189/s0022143000032020 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 12 (65) ◽

pp. 173-185 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

R. M. Koerner

Keyword(s):

Arctic Ocean ◽

Ablation Rate ◽

The Arctic ◽

First Year ◽

The North ◽

Ice Accumulation ◽

The Pacific ◽

The Arctic Ocean ◽

Ridged Ice ◽

Ice Production

AbstractFrom data taken on the British Trans-Arctic Expedition it is calculated that 9% of the Arctic Ocean surface between the North Pole and Spitsbergen was hummocked or ridged ice, 17% was unridged ice less than a year old, 73% was unridged old ice and 0.6% was ice-free. The mode of 250 thickness measurements taken through level areas of old floes along the entire traverse lies between 2.25 and 2.75 m. The mean end-of-winter thickness of the ice is calculated to be 4.6 m in the Pacific Gyral and 3.9 m in the Trans-Polar Drift Stream. From measurements of the percentage coverage and thickness of the various ice forms, it is calculated that the total annual ice accumulation in the Arctic Ocean is equivalent to a continuous layer of ice 1.1 m thick. 47% of this accumulation occurs in ice-free areas and under ice less than 1 year old. 20% of the total ice production is either directly or indirectly related to ridging or hummocking. An ice-ablation rate of 500 kg m−2 measured on a level area of a multi-year floe is compared with the rate on deformed and ponded ice. Greatest melting occurs on new hummocks and least on old smooth hummocks. The annual balance of ice older than 1 year but younger than multi-year ice is calculated from a knowledge of ice-drift patterns and the percentage coverage of first-year ice. The same calculations give a mean-maximum drift period of 5 years for ice in the Trans-Polar Drift Stream and 16 years in the Pacific Gyral. It is calculated that for the period February 1968 to May 1969 the annual ice export was 5 580 km3.

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The Frozen Ocean

PMLA ◽

10.1632/pmla.2010.125.3.693 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 125 (3) ◽

pp. 693-702 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Adriana Craciun

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Arctic Ocean ◽

Native People ◽

The Arctic ◽

The Pacific ◽

The Arctic Ocean

We'll get crushed by the ocean but it will not get us wet.—Isaac Brock, “Invisible” (2007)“There is no Sea With Which Our Age is So Imperfectly Acquainted as the Frozen Ocean,” Wrote the Eighteenth-Century Russian hydrographer Gavriil Sarychev, “and no empire which has more powerful motives and resources for extending its information, in this quarter, than Russia” (iii). Russia's Great Northern Expedition of the 1730s and later expeditions, like Sarychev's in 1785, mapped the shores of the Arctic Ocean across continental Asia, an impressive feat by any century's standards. Meanwhile, the American shores of the Arctic Ocean remained entirely unknown to the European empires (England, France, Spain) most interested in passing to and from the Pacific and Atlantic oceans via the Northwest and Northeast passages. Alexander MacKenzie, Samuel Hearne, and John Franklin, each traveling with native people, walked thousands of miles to reach the Frozen Ocean, leaving in their wake the occasional human disaster and an unimpeachable record of publishing successes, like MacKenzie's Voyages from Montreal to the Frozen Ocean (1801) and Franklin's Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea (1824).

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Distribution of Admete contabulata and Iphinopsis inflata in the Arctic (Gastropoda: Cancellariidae)

Ruthenica, Russian Malacological Journal ◽

10.35885/ruthenica.2018.28(4).5 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 28 (4) ◽

pp. 163-168

Author(s):

I. O. Nekhaev

Keyword(s):

Arctic Ocean ◽

The Arctic ◽

The Pacific ◽

The Family ◽

The Arctic Ocean ◽

Extreme North

Only four species of the family Cancellariidae had been reported from the Arctic. However, known distribution of three of them had been limited to the extreme north of the eastern Atlantic so far. The present paper describes findings of Admete contabulata Friele, 1879 from the Barents and the Kara seas and Iphinopsis inflata (Friele, 1879) from the Pacific part of the Arctic Ocean. Lectotype for Admete contabulata is here designated.

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Export of Arctic freshwater components through the Fram Strait 1998–2010

Ocean Science Discussions ◽

10.5194/osd-9-2749-2012 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 2749-2792

Author(s):

B. Rabe ◽

P. Dodd ◽

E. Hansen ◽

E. Falck ◽

U. Schauer ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Arctic Ocean ◽

The Arctic ◽

Ice Formation ◽

Fram Strait ◽

Pacific Water ◽

Ice Melt ◽

The North ◽

Beaufort Gyre ◽

The Pacific ◽

The Arctic Ocean

Abstract. The East Greenland Current in the Western Fram Strait is an important pathway for liquid freshwater export from the Arctic Ocean to the Nordic Seas and the North Atlantic subpolar gyre. We analysed five hydrographic surveys and data from moored current meters around 79° N in the Western Fram Strait between 1998 and 2010. To estimate the composition of southward liquid freshwater transports, inventories of liquid freshwater and components from Dodd et al. (2012) were combined with transport estimates from an inverse model between 10.6° W and 4° E. The southward liquid freshwater transports through the section averaged to 92 mSv (2900 km3 yr−1), relative to a salinity of 34.9. The transports consisted of 123 mSv water from rivers and precipitation (meteoric water), 28 mSv freshwater from the Pacific and 60 mSv freshwater deficit due to brine from ice formation. Variability in liquid freshwater and component transports appear to have been partly due to advection of these water masses to the Fram Strait and partly due to variations in the local volume transport; an exception are Pacific Water transports, which showed little co-variability with volume transports. An increase in Pacific Water transports from 2005 to 2010 suggests a release of Pacific Water from the Beaufort Gyre, in line with an observed expansion of Pacific Water towards the Eurasian Basin. The co-variability of meteoric water and brine from ice formation suggests joint processes in the main sea ice formation regions on the Arctic Ocean shelves. In addition, enhanced levels of sea ice melt observed in 2009 likely led to reduced transports of brine from ice formation. At least part of this additional ice melt appears to have been advected from the Beaufort Gyre and from north of the Bering Strait towards the Fram Strait. The observed changes in liquid freshwater component transports are much larger than known trends in the Arctic liquid freshwater inflow from rivers and the Pacific. Instead, recent observations of an increased storage of liquid freshwater in the Arctic Ocean suggest a decreased export of liquid freshwater. This raises the question how fast the accumulated liquid freshwater will be exported from the Arctic Ocean to the deep water formation regions in the North Atlantic and if an increased export will occur through the Fram Strait.

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Hotspots of Dense Water Cascading in the Arctic Ocean: Implications for the Pacific Water Pathways

Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans ◽

10.1029/2020jc016044 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 125 (10) ◽

Author(s):

Maria V. Luneva ◽

Vladimir V. Ivanov ◽

Fedor Tuzov ◽

Yevgeny Aksenov ◽

James D. Harle ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Arctic Ocean ◽

The Arctic ◽

Pacific Water ◽

Dense Water ◽

The Pacific ◽

The Arctic Ocean

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The Mass Balance of the Sea Ice of the Arctic Ocean

Journal of Glaciology ◽

10.1017/s0022143000032020 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 12 (65) ◽

pp. 173-185 ◽

Cited By ~ 72

Author(s):

R. M. Koerner

Keyword(s):

Arctic Ocean ◽

Ablation Rate ◽

The Arctic ◽

First Year ◽

The North ◽

Ice Accumulation ◽

The Pacific ◽

The Arctic Ocean ◽

Ridged Ice ◽

Ice Production

Abstract From data taken on the British Trans-Arctic Expedition it is calculated that 9% of the Arctic Ocean surface between the North Pole and Spitsbergen was hummocked or ridged ice, 17% was unridged ice less than a year old, 73% was unridged old ice and 0.6% was ice-free. The mode of 250 thickness measurements taken through level areas of old floes along the entire traverse lies between 2.25 and 2.75 m. The mean end-of-winter thickness of the ice is calculated to be 4.6 m in the Pacific Gyral and 3.9 m in the Trans-Polar Drift Stream. From measurements of the percentage coverage and thickness of the various ice forms, it is calculated that the total annual ice accumulation in the Arctic Ocean is equivalent to a continuous layer of ice 1.1 m thick. 47% of this accumulation occurs in ice-free areas and under ice less than 1 year old. 20% of the total ice production is either directly or indirectly related to ridging or hummocking. An ice-ablation rate of 500 kg m−2 measured on a level area of a multi-year floe is compared with the rate on deformed and ponded ice. Greatest melting occurs on new hummocks and least on old smooth hummocks. The annual balance of ice older than 1 year but younger than multi-year ice is calculated from a knowledge of ice-drift patterns and the percentage coverage of first-year ice. The same calculations give a mean-maximum drift period of 5 years for ice in the Trans-Polar Drift Stream and 16 years in the Pacific Gyral. It is calculated that for the period February 1968 to May 1969 the annual ice export was 5 580 km3.

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Observed increases in Bering Strait oceanic fluxes from the Pacific to the Arctic from 2001 to 2011 and their impacts on the Arctic Ocean water column

Geophysical Research Letters ◽

10.1029/2012gl054092 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 39 (24) ◽

Cited By ~ 213

Author(s):

Rebecca A. Woodgate ◽

Thomas J. Weingartner ◽

Ron Lindsay

Keyword(s):

Arctic Ocean ◽

Water Column ◽

The Arctic ◽

Bering Strait ◽

Ocean Water ◽

The Pacific ◽

The Arctic Ocean

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Atmospheric and oceanic drivers of regional Arctic winter sea-ice variability in present and future climates

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-2231 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Jakob Dörr ◽

Marius Årthun ◽

Tor Eldevik ◽

Erica Madonna

Keyword(s):

Sea Ice ◽

Arctic Ocean ◽

Heat Transport ◽

Barents Sea ◽

Arctic Sea Ice ◽

The Arctic ◽

Ocean Heat Transport ◽

The Pacific ◽

Arctic Sea ◽

The Arctic Ocean

<p>The recent retreat of Arctic sea ice area is overlaid by strong internal variability on all timescales. In winter, sea ice retreat and variability are currently dominated by the Barents Sea, primarily driven by variable ocean heat transport from the Atlantic. Climate models from the latest intercomparison project CMIP6 project that the future loss of winter Arctic sea ice spreads throughout the Arctic Ocean and, hence, that other regions of the Arctic Ocean will see increased sea-ice variability. It is, however, not known how the influence of ocean heat transport will change, and to what extent and in which regions other drivers, such as atmospheric circulation or river runoff into the Arctic Ocean, will become important. Using a combination of observations and simulations from the Community Earth System Model Large Ensemble (CESM-LE), we analyze and contrast the present and future regional drivers of the variability of the winter Arctic sea ice cover. We find that for the recent past, both observations and CESM-LE show that sea ice variability in the Atlantic and Pacific sector of the Arctic Ocean is influenced by ocean heat transport through the Barents Sea and Bering Strait, respectively. The two dominant modes of large-scale atmospheric variability &#8211; the Arctic Oscillation and the Pacific North American pattern &#8211; are only weakly related to recent regional sea ice variability. However, atmospheric circulation anomalies associated with regional sea ice variability show distinct patterns for the Atlantic and Pacific sectors consistent with heat and humidity transport from lower latitudes. In the future, under a high emission scenario, CESM-LE projects a gradual expansion of the footprint of the Pacific and Atlantic inflows, covering the whole Arctic Ocean by 2050-2079. This study highlights the combined importance of future Atlantification and Pacification of the Arctic Ocean and improves our understanding of internal climate variability which essential in order to predict future sea ice changes under anthropogenic warming.&#160; &#160;</p><p>&#160;</p>

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