Origin of freshwater and polynya water in the Arctic Ocean halocline in summer 2007

• Published in: Progress in Oceanography
• Main Authors: Bauch, D., Rutgers van der Loeff, M., Andersen, N., Torres-Valdes, S., Bakker, K., Abrahamsen, E.Povl
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Laptev Sea; Kara Sea; Pacific; Makarov Basin; Alpha Ridge; alpha ridge; laptev; Lomonosov Ridge; makarov basin; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://imis.nioz.nl/imis.php?module=ref&refid=231202

Extremely low summer sea-ice coverage in the Arctic Ocean in 2007 allowed extensive sampling and a wide quasi-synoptic hydrographic and delta O-18 dataset could be collected in the Eurasian Basin and the Makarov Basin up to the Alpha Ridge and the East Siberian continental margin. With the aim of de...