Discovery and characterization of submarine groundwater discharge in the Siberian Arctic seas: a case study in the Buor-Khaya Gulf, Laptev Sea

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: A. N. Charkin, M. Rutgers van der Loeff, N. E. Shakhova, Ö. Gustafsson, O. V. Dudarev, M. S. Cherepnev, A. N. Salyuk, A. V. Koshurnikov, E. A. Spivak, A. Y. Gunar, A. S. Ruban, I. P. Semiletov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2017
• Subjects: geo; envir; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Buor-Khaya; Khaya; Laptev Sea; Talik; Yana River; Ice; laptev; lena river; permafrost; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2305-2017; https://www.the-cryosphere.net/11/2305/2017/tc-11-2305-2017.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/e4905923875c40c59388689fbfd39692

It has been suggested that increasing terrestrial water discharge to the Arctic Ocean may partly occur as submarine groundwater discharge (SGD), yet there are no direct observations of this phenomenon in the Arctic shelf seas. This study tests the hypothesis that SGD does exist in the Siberian Arcti...