Warming of Atlantic Water in three west Spitsbergen fjords: recent patterns and century-long trends

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Bloshkina, Ekaterina V., Pavlov, Alexey K., Filchuk, Kirill
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2021
• Subjects: Atlantification; Svalbard; Isfjorden; Grønfjorden; water masses; climate change; Billefjorden; Isfjord*; Polar Research; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/5392; https://doi.org/10.33265/polar.v40.5392

We investigated the recent warming of summer Atlantic Water in relation to the century-long trends in maximum temperature in three west Spitsbergen fjords: Isfjorden, Grønfjorden and Billefjorden. On the basis of repeated along-fjord transects in late summer 2003–2019, we found that the warming has...