A warm jet in a cold ocean
Unprecedented quantities of heat are entering the Pacific sector of the Arctic Ocean through Bering Strait, particularly during summer months. Though some heat is lost to the atmosphere during autumn cooling, a significant fraction of the incoming warm, salty water subducts (dives beneath) below a c...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:8065036 2023-05-15T14:56:19+02:00 A warm jet in a cold ocean MacKinnon, Jennifer A. Simmons, Harper L. Hargrove, John Thomson, Jim Peacock, Thomas Alford, Matthew H. Barton, Benjamin I. Boury, Samuel Brenner, Samuel D. Couto, Nicole Danielson, Seth L. Fine, Elizabeth C. Graber, Hans C. Guthrie, John Hopkins, Joanne E. Jayne, Steven R. Jeon, Chanhyung Klenz, Thilo Lee, Craig M. Lenn, Yueng-Djern Lucas, Andrew J. Lund, Björn Mahaffey, Claire Norman, Louisa Rainville, Luc Smith, Madison M. Thomas, Leif N. Torres-Valdés, Sinhué Wood, Kevin R. 2021-04-23 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8065036/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33893280 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22505-5 en eng Nature Publishing Group UK http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8065036/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33893280 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22505-5 © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . CC-BY Nat Commun Article Text 2021 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22505-5 2021-05-16T00:23:22Z Unprecedented quantities of heat are entering the Pacific sector of the Arctic Ocean through Bering Strait, particularly during summer months. Though some heat is lost to the atmosphere during autumn cooling, a significant fraction of the incoming warm, salty water subducts (dives beneath) below a cooler fresher layer of near-surface water, subsequently extending hundreds of kilometers into the Beaufort Gyre. Upward turbulent mixing of these sub-surface pockets of heat is likely accelerating sea ice melt in the region. This Pacific-origin water brings both heat and unique biogeochemical properties, contributing to a changing Arctic ecosystem. However, our ability to understand or forecast the role of this incoming water mass has been hampered by lack of understanding of the physical processes controlling subduction and evolution of this this warm water. Crucially, the processes seen here occur at small horizontal scales not resolved by regional forecast models or climate simulations; new parameterizations must be developed that accurately represent the physics. Here we present novel high resolution observations showing the detailed process of subduction and initial evolution of warm Pacific-origin water in the southern Beaufort Gyre. Text Arctic Arctic Ocean Bering Strait Sea ice PubMed Central (PMC) Arctic Arctic Ocean Bering Strait Pacific Nature Communications 12 1 |
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Unprecedented quantities of heat are entering the Pacific sector of the Arctic Ocean through Bering Strait, particularly during summer months. Though some heat is lost to the atmosphere during autumn cooling, a significant fraction of the incoming warm, salty water subducts (dives beneath) below a cooler fresher layer of near-surface water, subsequently extending hundreds of kilometers into the Beaufort Gyre. Upward turbulent mixing of these sub-surface pockets of heat is likely accelerating sea ice melt in the region. This Pacific-origin water brings both heat and unique biogeochemical properties, contributing to a changing Arctic ecosystem. However, our ability to understand or forecast the role of this incoming water mass has been hampered by lack of understanding of the physical processes controlling subduction and evolution of this this warm water. Crucially, the processes seen here occur at small horizontal scales not resolved by regional forecast models or climate simulations; new parameterizations must be developed that accurately represent the physics. Here we present novel high resolution observations showing the detailed process of subduction and initial evolution of warm Pacific-origin water in the southern Beaufort Gyre. |
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