Warming and freshening of Baffin Bay, 1916–2003

• Main Author: Melissa M. Zweng
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Baffin Bay; Baffin Island; Greenland; Central Basin; Baffin; Davis Strait; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.690.1512; http://muenchow.cms.udel.edu/papers/baffin_jgr2005.pdf

[1] Regression analysis of historical hydrographic data is used to determine changes in temperature and salinity in Baffin Bay for the time period from 1916 to 2003. We find two distinct sets of changes in the Baffin: First, areas affected by the Atlantic inflow to Baffin Bay show substantial and st...