Modelling Siberian river runoff — implications for contaminant transport in the Arctic Ocean

• Main Authors: I. H. Harms A, M. J. Karcher B, D. Dethleff C
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Kara Sea; Laptev Sea; Nares; Canadian Archipelago; Fram Strait; laptev; Nares strait; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.518.3391; http://www.ifm.zmaw.de/fileadmin/files/research/shelfsea/JMS_99.pdf

This model study investigates the role of Siberian river runoff for the transport of possible river contaminants in the Arctic Ocean. Three-dimensional coupled ice-ocean-models of different horizontal resolution are applied to simulate the dispersion of river water from Ob, Yenisei and Lena. These S...