Tracer-derived freshwater composition of the Siberian continental shelf and slope following the extreme Arctic summer of 2007

• Main Authors: Abrahamsen, E. Povl, Meredith, Michael P., Falkner, Kelly, Torres-Valdes, Sinhue, Leng, Melanie J., Alkire, Matthew B., Bacon, Sheldon, Laxon, Seymour W., Polyakov, Igor, Ivanov, Vladimir
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union
• Subjects: Arctic Ocean; Lomonosov Ridge; makarov basin; New Siberian Islands; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/articles/ht24wk91c

We investigate the freshwater composition of the shelf and slope of the Arctic Ocean north of the New Siberian Islands using geochemical tracer data (δ¹⁸O, Ba, and PO₄*) collected following the extreme summer of 2007. We find that the anomalous wind patterns that partly explained the sea ice minimum...