Landfast ice affects the stability of the Arctic halocline: Evidence from a numerical model

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Itkin, Polona, Losch, Martin, Gerdes, Rüdiger
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Winter River; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/38037/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/38037/1/itkin-etal_submitted.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JC010353; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.45588; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.45588.d001

Landfast ice covers large surface areas of the winter Siberian Seas. The immobile landfast ice cover inhibits divergent and convergent motion, hence dynamical sea ice growth and redistribution, decouples winter river plumes in coastal seas from the atmosphere, and positions polynyas at the landfast...