Reconstructing the origin and trajectory of drifting Arctic sea ice

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Pfirmann, Stephanie L., Colony, Roger, Nürnberg, Dirk, Eicken, Hajo, Rigor, I.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: AGU (American Geophysical Union) 1997
• Subjects: Arctic; Barents Sea; Central Kara Plateau; Kara Sea; New Siberian Islands; International Arctic Buoy Program; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/8188/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/8188/1/Pfirman_et_al-1997-Journal_of_Geophysical_Research__Oceans_%281978-2012%29.pdf; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/8188/2/Pfirman_et_al-1997-Journal_of_Geophysical_Research__Oceans.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/96JC03980

Recent studies have indicated that drifting Arctic sea ice plays an important role in the redistribution of sediments and contaminants. Here we present a method to reconstruct the backward trajectory of sea ice from its sampling location in the Eurasian Arctic to its possible site of origin on the s...