Recent large increases in freshwater fluxes from Greenland into the North Atlantic
Freshwater (FW) fluxes from river runoff and precipitation minus evaporation for the pan Arctic seas are relatively well documented and prescribed in ocean GCMs. Fluxes from Greenland on the other hand are generally ignored altogether, despite their potential impacts on ocean circulation and marine...
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ftcdlib:oai:escholarship.org/ark:/13030/qt3dk1v8sz 2023-05-15T14:55:10+02:00 Recent large increases in freshwater fluxes from Greenland into the North Atlantic Bamber, J Van Den Broeke, M Ettema, J Lenaerts, J Rignot, E n/a - n/a 2012-10-16 application/pdf https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3dk1v8sz unknown eScholarship, University of California qt3dk1v8sz https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3dk1v8sz CC-BY CC-BY Geophysical Research Letters, vol 39, iss 19 Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences article 2012 ftcdlib 2021-08-30T17:10:42Z Freshwater (FW) fluxes from river runoff and precipitation minus evaporation for the pan Arctic seas are relatively well documented and prescribed in ocean GCMs. Fluxes from Greenland on the other hand are generally ignored altogether, despite their potential impacts on ocean circulation and marine biology. Here, we present a reconstruction of the spatially distributed FW flux from Greenland for 1958-2010. We find a modest increase into the Arctic Ocean during this period. Fluxes into the Irminger Basin, however, have increased by fifty percent (6.30.5km3yr-2) in less than twenty years. This greatly exceeds previous estimates. For the ice sheet as a whole the rate of increase since 1992 is 16.91.8km3yr-2. The cumulative FW anomaly since 1995 is 3200358km3, which is about a third of the magnitude of the Great Salinity Anomaly (GSA) of the 1970s. If this trend continues into the future, the anomaly will exceed that of the GSA by about 2025. © 2012. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean Greenland Ice Sheet North Atlantic University of California: eScholarship Arctic Arctic Ocean Greenland Irminger Basin ENVELOPE(-36.000,-36.000,61.000,61.000) |
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Freshwater (FW) fluxes from river runoff and precipitation minus evaporation for the pan Arctic seas are relatively well documented and prescribed in ocean GCMs. Fluxes from Greenland on the other hand are generally ignored altogether, despite their potential impacts on ocean circulation and marine biology. Here, we present a reconstruction of the spatially distributed FW flux from Greenland for 1958-2010. We find a modest increase into the Arctic Ocean during this period. Fluxes into the Irminger Basin, however, have increased by fifty percent (6.30.5km3yr-2) in less than twenty years. This greatly exceeds previous estimates. For the ice sheet as a whole the rate of increase since 1992 is 16.91.8km3yr-2. The cumulative FW anomaly since 1995 is 3200358km3, which is about a third of the magnitude of the Great Salinity Anomaly (GSA) of the 1970s. If this trend continues into the future, the anomaly will exceed that of the GSA by about 2025. © 2012. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. |
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Bamber, J Van Den Broeke, M Ettema, J Lenaerts, J Rignot, E |
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Recent large increases in freshwater fluxes from Greenland into the North Atlantic |
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Recent large increases in freshwater fluxes from Greenland into the North Atlantic |
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Recent large increases in freshwater fluxes from Greenland into the North Atlantic |
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Recent large increases in freshwater fluxes from Greenland into the North Atlantic |
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Recent large increases in freshwater fluxes from Greenland into the North Atlantic |
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recent large increases in freshwater fluxes from greenland into the north atlantic |
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Arctic Arctic Ocean Greenland Ice Sheet North Atlantic |
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Geophysical Research Letters, vol 39, iss 19 |
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