Kara Sea freshwater transport through Vilkitsky Strait: Variability, forcing, and further pathways toward the western Arctic Ocean from a model and observations

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Janout, Markus A., Aksenov, Yevgeny, Hölemann, Jens A., Rabe, Benjamin, Schauer, Ursula, Polyakov, Igor V., Bacon, Sheldon, Coward, Andrew C., Karcher, Michael, Lenn, Yueng-Djern, Kassens, Heidemarie, Timokhov, Leonid
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Laptev Sea; Kara Sea; Yenisey; laptev
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/511352/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/511352/1/jgrc21287.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JC010635

Siberian river water is a first-order contribution to the Arctic freshwater budget, with the Ob, Yenisey, and Lena supplying nearly half of the total surface freshwater flux. However, few details are known regarding where, when, and how the freshwater transverses the vast Siberian shelf seas. This p...