Wind-driven diversion of summer river runoff preconditions the Laptev Sea coastal polynya hydrography: Evidence from summer-to-winter hydrographic records of 2007–2009

• Published in: Continental Shelf Research
• Main Authors: Dmitrenko, Igor A., Kirillov, Sergey A., Krumpen, Thomas, Makhotin, Mikhail, Povl Abrahamsen, E., Willmes, Sascha, Bloshkina, Ekaterina, Hölemann, Jens A., Kassens, Heidemarie, Wegner, Carolyn
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2010
• Subjects: Arctic; East Siberian Sea; Laptev Sea; Climate change; laptev; lena delta; lena river
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/8815/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/8815/1/Dmitrenko_et_al_final.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2010.06.012

This paper examines the role of atmospheric forcing in modifying the pathways of riverine water on the Laptev Sea shelf, using summer-to-winter hydrographic surveys from 2007 to 2009. Over the two consecutive winter seasons of 2007–2008 and 2008–2009 in the area of the winter coastal polynya, our da...