Recent large increases in freshwater fluxes from Greenland into the North Atlantic

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Bamber, Jonathan, Broeke, Michiel den, Ettema, Janneke, Lenaerts, Jan, Rignot, Eric
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2012
• Subjects: Life Below Water; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences; Arctic Ocean; Greenland; Ice Sheet; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3dk1v8sz; https://escholarship.org/content/qt3dk1v8sz/qt3dk1v8sz.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2012gl052552

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...