Arctic warming interrupts the Transpolar Drift and affects long-range transport of sea ice and ice-rafted matter

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Krumpen, Thomas, Belter, H. Jakob, Boetius, Antje, Damm, Ellen, Haas, Christian, Hendricks, Stefan, Nicolaus, Marcel, Nöthig, Eva-Maria, Paul, Stephan, Peeken, Ilka, Ricker, Robert, Stein, Rüdiger
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2019
• Subjects: Geographie und geographische Fernerkundung; ddc:910; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; East Siberian Sea; Kara Sea; Laptev Sea; Fram Strait; laptev; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/71553/1/s41598-019-41456-y.pdf; https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/71553/; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-71553-1; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41456-y

Sea ice is an important transport vehicle for gaseous, dissolved and particulate matter in the Arctic Ocean. Due to the recently observed acceleration in sea ice drift, it has been assumed that more matter is advected by the Transpolar Drift from shallow shelf waters to the central Arctic Ocean and...