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

• 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

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