Arctic Ocean Freshwater Changes over the Past 100 Years and Their Causes

• Published in: Journal of Climate
• Main Authors: Polyakov, Igor V., Alexeev, V. A., Belchansky, G. I., Dmitrenko, Igor A., Ivanov, V. V., Kirillov, Sergey A., Korablev, A. A., Steele, M., Timokhov, Leonid A., Yashayaev, I.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: AMS (American Meteorological Society) 2008
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Central Basin; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/28538/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/28538/1/Poyakov_et_al-2007-Journal_Climate-Arctic_ocean_freshwater.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1175/2007JCLI1748.1

Recent observations show dramatic changes of the Arctic atmosphere–ice–ocean system. Here the authors demonstrate, through the analysis of a vast collection of previously unsynthesized observational data, that over the twentieth century the central Arctic Ocean became increasingly saltier with a rat...