Arctic pathways of Pacific Water: Arctic Ocean Model Intercomparison experiments
Pacific Water (PW) enters the Arctic Ocean through Bering Strait and brings heat, fresh water and nutrients from the northern Bering Sea. The circulation of PW in the central Arctic Ocean is only partially understood due to the lack of observations. In this paper pathways of PW are investigated usin...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:42314 2024-09-15T17:50:32+00:00 Arctic pathways of Pacific Water: Arctic Ocean Model Intercomparison experiments Aksenov, Yevgeny Karcher, Michael Proshutinsky, A. Gerdes, Rüdiger DeCuevas, B. A. Golubeva, Elena Kauker, Frank Nguyen, A. Platov, G. Wadley, M.R. Watanabe, Eiji Coward, Andrew C. Nurser, G. 2016-01 https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/42314/ https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.49027 unknown Wiley Aksenov, Y. , Karcher, M. orcid:0000-0002-9587-811X , Proshutinsky, A. , Gerdes, R. , DeCuevas, B. A. , Golubeva, E. , Kauker, F. orcid:0000-0002-7976-3005 , Nguyen, A. , Platov, G. , Wadley, M. , Watanabe, E. , Coward, A. C. and Nurser, G. (2016) Arctic pathways of Pacific Water: Arctic Ocean Model Intercomparison experiments , Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 121 (1), pp. 27-59 . doi:10.1002/2015JC011299 <https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JC011299> , hdl:10013/epic.49027 EPIC3Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, Wiley, 121(1), pp. 27-59, ISSN: 0148-0227 Article isiRev 2016 ftawi https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JC011299 2024-06-24T04:15:36Z Pacific Water (PW) enters the Arctic Ocean through Bering Strait and brings heat, fresh water and nutrients from the northern Bering Sea. The circulation of PW in the central Arctic Ocean is only partially understood due to the lack of observations. In this paper pathways of PW are investigated using simulations with six state-of-the art regional and global Ocean General Circulation Models (OGCMs). In the simulations PW is tracked by a passive tracer, released in Bering Strait. Simulated PW water spreads from the Bering Strait region in three major branches. One of them starts in the Barrow Canyon, bringing PW along continental slope of Alaska into the Canadian Straits and then into Baffin Bay. The other initiates in the vicinity of the Herald Canyon and transports PW along the continental slope of the East-Siberian Sea into the transpolar drift, and then through Fram Strait and the Greenland Sea. The third branch begins near the Herald Shoal and the central Chukchi shelf and brings PW waters into the Beaufort Gyre. Models suggest that the spread of PW through the Arctic Ocean depends on the atmospheric circulation. In the models the wind, acting via Ekman pumping, drives the seasonal and interannual variability of PW in the Canadian Basin of the Arctic Ocean. The wind effects the simulated PW pathways by changing vertical shear of the relative vorticity of the ocean flow in the Canada Basin. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean Baffin Bay Baffin Bay Baffin Barrow Bering Sea Bering Strait canada basin Central Arctic Chukchi East Siberian Sea Fram Strait Greenland Greenland Sea Alaska Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 121 1 27 59 |
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Pacific Water (PW) enters the Arctic Ocean through Bering Strait and brings heat, fresh water and nutrients from the northern Bering Sea. The circulation of PW in the central Arctic Ocean is only partially understood due to the lack of observations. In this paper pathways of PW are investigated using simulations with six state-of-the art regional and global Ocean General Circulation Models (OGCMs). In the simulations PW is tracked by a passive tracer, released in Bering Strait. Simulated PW water spreads from the Bering Strait region in three major branches. One of them starts in the Barrow Canyon, bringing PW along continental slope of Alaska into the Canadian Straits and then into Baffin Bay. The other initiates in the vicinity of the Herald Canyon and transports PW along the continental slope of the East-Siberian Sea into the transpolar drift, and then through Fram Strait and the Greenland Sea. The third branch begins near the Herald Shoal and the central Chukchi shelf and brings PW waters into the Beaufort Gyre. Models suggest that the spread of PW through the Arctic Ocean depends on the atmospheric circulation. In the models the wind, acting via Ekman pumping, drives the seasonal and interannual variability of PW in the Canadian Basin of the Arctic Ocean. The wind effects the simulated PW pathways by changing vertical shear of the relative vorticity of the ocean flow in the Canada Basin. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. |
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Aksenov, Yevgeny Karcher, Michael Proshutinsky, A. Gerdes, Rüdiger DeCuevas, B. A. Golubeva, Elena Kauker, Frank Nguyen, A. Platov, G. Wadley, M.R. Watanabe, Eiji Coward, Andrew C. Nurser, G. |
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Aksenov, Yevgeny Karcher, Michael Proshutinsky, A. Gerdes, Rüdiger DeCuevas, B. A. Golubeva, Elena Kauker, Frank Nguyen, A. Platov, G. Wadley, M.R. Watanabe, Eiji Coward, Andrew C. Nurser, G. Arctic pathways of Pacific Water: Arctic Ocean Model Intercomparison experiments |
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Aksenov, Yevgeny Karcher, Michael Proshutinsky, A. Gerdes, Rüdiger DeCuevas, B. A. Golubeva, Elena Kauker, Frank Nguyen, A. Platov, G. Wadley, M.R. Watanabe, Eiji Coward, Andrew C. Nurser, G. |
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Arctic pathways of Pacific Water: Arctic Ocean Model Intercomparison experiments |
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Arctic pathways of Pacific Water: Arctic Ocean Model Intercomparison experiments |
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Arctic pathways of Pacific Water: Arctic Ocean Model Intercomparison experiments |
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Arctic pathways of Pacific Water: Arctic Ocean Model Intercomparison experiments |
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Arctic pathways of Pacific Water: Arctic Ocean Model Intercomparison experiments |
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arctic pathways of pacific water: arctic ocean model intercomparison experiments |
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Arctic Arctic Ocean Baffin Bay Baffin Bay Baffin Barrow Bering Sea Bering Strait canada basin Central Arctic Chukchi East Siberian Sea Fram Strait Greenland Greenland Sea Alaska |
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Arctic Arctic Ocean Baffin Bay Baffin Bay Baffin Barrow Bering Sea Bering Strait canada basin Central Arctic Chukchi East Siberian Sea Fram Strait Greenland Greenland Sea Alaska |
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EPIC3Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, Wiley, 121(1), pp. 27-59, ISSN: 0148-0227 |
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Aksenov, Y. , Karcher, M. orcid:0000-0002-9587-811X , Proshutinsky, A. , Gerdes, R. , DeCuevas, B. A. , Golubeva, E. , Kauker, F. orcid:0000-0002-7976-3005 , Nguyen, A. , Platov, G. , Wadley, M. , Watanabe, E. , Coward, A. C. and Nurser, G. (2016) Arctic pathways of Pacific Water: Arctic Ocean Model Intercomparison experiments , Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 121 (1), pp. 27-59 . doi:10.1002/2015JC011299 <https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JC011299> , hdl:10013/epic.49027 |
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