SEA ICE VOLUME FLUX THROUGH FRAM STRAIT FROM COMBINED SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING DATA FOR 2003 TO 2007

The net annual sea ice volume exported through Fram Strait into the Greenland Sea amounts to about 10 % of the total sea ice mass of the Arctic Ocean and is the single largest source of freshwater in the Nordic Seas [1]. As the ice melts on its way south, inter-annual variability and perturbations i...

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Main Authors: Gunnar Spreen, Stefan Kern, Detlef Stammer
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Subjects:
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Greenland
Fram Strait
Greenland Sea
Nordic Seas
Sea ice
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.514.4080
http://www.ifm.zmaw.de/fileadmin/files/images/Staff/Gunnar_Spreen/pdf/Spreenetal-IGARSS08-Abstract-SatelliteEstimateOfFramStraitSeaIceVolumeFlux.pdf
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Summary:The net annual sea ice volume exported through Fram Strait into the Greenland Sea amounts to about 10 % of the total sea ice mass of the Arctic Ocean and is the single largest source of freshwater in the Nordic Seas [1]. As the ice melts on its way south, inter-annual variability and perturbations in the sea ice transport through Fram Strait result in a change of the surface water salt content and alter the stratification of the Greenland Sea. By this the major water mass formation processes of dense water and

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