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
• Other Authors: Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques (EPOC), Observatoire aquitain des sciences de l'univers (OASU), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2020
• Subjects: [SDE]Environmental Sciences; [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Baffin Bay; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Greenland; Nares; Arctic Archipelago; Baffin; Foraminifera*; Nares strait; North Atlantic; Sea ice; Upernavik
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-02988524; https://hal.science/hal-02988524/document; https://hal.science/hal-02988524/file/cp-16-1075-2020.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1075-2020

International audience 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...