Neoglacial cooling culminates in rapid sea ice oscillations in eastern Fram Strait

• Main Authors: Müller, Juliane, Stein, Ruediger, Werner, Kirstin, Spielhagen, Robert
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus 2011
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Greenland; Nesje; Atlantic Arctic; Atlantic-Arctic; East Greenland; east greenland current; Fram Strait; glacier; North Atlantic; Phytoplankton; Sea ice; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/11821/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/11821/1/2011_WernerSpielhagen_etal_EGU2011-407.pdf; http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/EGU2011-407.pdf

EGU2011-407 The spatial and temporal distribution of sea ice in the subpolar North Atlantic is mainly controlled by the advection of warm Atlantic Water via the Norwegian and West Spitsbergen Current in eastern Fram Strait. Simultaneously, polar water and sea ice from the Arctic Ocean is transported...