Mechanisms underlying recent Arctic atlantification
Recent warming and reduced sea ice concentrations in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean are the main signatures of ongoing Arctic “Atlantification.” The mechanisms driving the warming trends are nevertheless still debated, particularly regarding the relative importance of oceanic and atmospheri...
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ftimr:oai:imr.brage.unit.no:11250/2719542 2023-05-15T14:47:49+02:00 Mechanisms underlying recent Arctic atlantification Asbjørnsen, Helene Årthun, Marius Skagseth, Øystein Eldevik, Tor 2020 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2719542 https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088036 eng eng Geophysical Research Letters. 2020, 47:e2020GL088036 (15), 1-9. urn:issn:0094-8276 https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2719542 https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088036 cristin:1854538 1-9 47:e2020GL088036 Geophysical Research Letters 15 Peer reviewed Journal article 2020 ftimr https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088036 2021-09-23T20:15:30Z Recent warming and reduced sea ice concentrations in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean are the main signatures of ongoing Arctic “Atlantification.” The mechanisms driving the warming trends are nevertheless still debated, particularly regarding the relative importance of oceanic and atmospheric heat fluxes. Here, heat budgets along main Atlantic water pathways through the Barents Sea and Fram Strait are constructed to investigate the mechanisms of Atlantification during 1993–2014. The largest warming trends occur south of the winter ice edge, with ocean advection as the main driver. Warming in the marginal ice zone is mainly due to low surface heat loss from the 1990s to the mid‐2000s. In the ice‐covered northwestern Barents Sea, ocean advection and air‐sea heat fluxes act in concert to drive a gradual warming of the upper ocean. Despite a weakened stratification, no evidence is found of vertical oceanic temperature fluxes driving this upper‐ocean warming. publishedVersion Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean Barents Sea Fram Strait Sea ice Institute for Marine Research: Brage IMR Arctic Arctic Ocean Barents Sea Geophysical Research Letters 47 15 |
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Recent warming and reduced sea ice concentrations in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean are the main signatures of ongoing Arctic “Atlantification.” The mechanisms driving the warming trends are nevertheless still debated, particularly regarding the relative importance of oceanic and atmospheric heat fluxes. Here, heat budgets along main Atlantic water pathways through the Barents Sea and Fram Strait are constructed to investigate the mechanisms of Atlantification during 1993–2014. The largest warming trends occur south of the winter ice edge, with ocean advection as the main driver. Warming in the marginal ice zone is mainly due to low surface heat loss from the 1990s to the mid‐2000s. In the ice‐covered northwestern Barents Sea, ocean advection and air‐sea heat fluxes act in concert to drive a gradual warming of the upper ocean. Despite a weakened stratification, no evidence is found of vertical oceanic temperature fluxes driving this upper‐ocean warming. publishedVersion |
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Asbjørnsen, Helene Årthun, Marius Skagseth, Øystein Eldevik, Tor |
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Mechanisms underlying recent Arctic atlantification |
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Mechanisms underlying recent Arctic atlantification |
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Mechanisms underlying recent Arctic atlantification |
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Geophysical Research Letters. 2020, 47:e2020GL088036 (15), 1-9. urn:issn:0094-8276 https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2719542 https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088036 cristin:1854538 |
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