A volumetric census of the Barents Sea in a changing climate
The Barents Sea, located between the Norwegian Sea and the Arctic Ocean, is one of the main pathways of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Changes in the water mass transformations in the Barents Sea potentially affect the thermohaline circulation through the alteration of the dense wa...
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ftnonlinearchiv:oai:noa.gwlb.de:cop_mods_00054284 2023-05-15T15:07:04+02:00 A volumetric census of the Barents Sea in a changing climate Watelet, Sylvain Skagseth, Øystein Lien, Vidar S. Sagen, Helge Østensen, Øivind Ivshin, Viktor Beckers, Jean-Marie 2020-10 electronic https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2447-2020 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00054284 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00053935/essd-12-2447-2020.pdf https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/2447/2020/essd-12-2447-2020.pdf eng eng Copernicus Publications Earth System Science Data -- http://www.earth-syst-sci-data.net/volumes_and_issues.html -- http://www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/?2475469 -- 1866-3516 https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2447-2020 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00054284 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00053935/essd-12-2447-2020.pdf https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/2447/2020/essd-12-2447-2020.pdf https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ uneingeschränkt info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC-BY article Verlagsveröffentlichung article Text doc-type:article 2020 ftnonlinearchiv https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2447-2020 2022-02-08T22:35:05Z The Barents Sea, located between the Norwegian Sea and the Arctic Ocean, is one of the main pathways of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Changes in the water mass transformations in the Barents Sea potentially affect the thermohaline circulation through the alteration of the dense water formation process. In order to investigate such changes, we present here a seasonal atlas of the Barents Sea including both temperature and salinity for the period 1965–2016. The atlas is built as a compilation of datasets from the World Ocean Database, the Polar Branch of the Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography and the Norwegian Polar Institute using the Data-Interpolating Variational Analysis (DIVA) tool. DIVA allows for a minimization of the expected error with respect to the true field. The atlas is used to provide a volumetric analysis of water mass characteristics and an estimation of the ocean heat and freshwater contents. The results show a recent “Atlantification” of the Barents Sea, that is a general increase in both temperature and salinity, while its density remains stable. The atlas is made freely accessible as user-friendly NetCDF files to encourage further research in the Barents Sea physics (https://doi.org/10.21335/NMDC-2058021735, Watelet et al., 2020). Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean Barents Sea Norwegian Polar Institute Norwegian Sea Niedersächsisches Online-Archiv NOA Arctic Arctic Ocean Barents Sea Norwegian Sea Earth System Science Data 12 4 2447 2457 |
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The Barents Sea, located between the Norwegian Sea and the Arctic Ocean, is one of the main pathways of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Changes in the water mass transformations in the Barents Sea potentially affect the thermohaline circulation through the alteration of the dense water formation process. In order to investigate such changes, we present here a seasonal atlas of the Barents Sea including both temperature and salinity for the period 1965–2016. The atlas is built as a compilation of datasets from the World Ocean Database, the Polar Branch of the Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography and the Norwegian Polar Institute using the Data-Interpolating Variational Analysis (DIVA) tool. DIVA allows for a minimization of the expected error with respect to the true field. The atlas is used to provide a volumetric analysis of water mass characteristics and an estimation of the ocean heat and freshwater contents. The results show a recent “Atlantification” of the Barents Sea, that is a general increase in both temperature and salinity, while its density remains stable. The atlas is made freely accessible as user-friendly NetCDF files to encourage further research in the Barents Sea physics (https://doi.org/10.21335/NMDC-2058021735, Watelet et al., 2020). |
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A volumetric census of the Barents Sea in a changing climate |
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A volumetric census of the Barents Sea in a changing climate |
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A volumetric census of the Barents Sea in a changing climate |
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