Reconstruction of Holocene oceanographic conditions in eastern Baffin Bay

• Published in: Climate of the Past
• Main Authors: Hansen, Katrine Elnegaard, Giraudeau, Jacques, Wacker, Lukas, Pearce, Christof, Seidenkrantz, Marit-Solveig
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Baffin Bay; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Greenland; Nares; Arctic Archipelago; Baffin; Foraminifera*; Nares strait; North Atlantic; Sea ice; Upernavik
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1075-2020; https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/16/1075/2020/

Baffin Bay is a semi-enclosed basin connecting the Arctic Ocean and the western North Atlantic, thus making out a significant pathway for heat exchange. Here we reconstruct the alternating advection of relatively warmer and saline Atlantic waters versus the incursion of colder Arctic water masses en...