Seasonality of the Physical and Biogeochemical Hydrography in the Inflow to the Arctic Ocean Through Fram Strait

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Randelhoff, Achim, Reigstad, Marit, Chierici, Melissa, Sundfjord, Arild, Ivanov, Vladimir, Cape, Matthias, Vernet, Maria, Tremblay, Jean-Éric, Bratbak, Gunnar, Kristiansen, Svein
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media 2018
• Subjects: Arctic Ocean; Atlantic water; hydrography; shelf slope; nutrients; carbon; fram strait; barents sea; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Marinbiologi: 497; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Marine biology: 497; Arctic; Barents Sea; Round Point; Svalbard; Fram Strait; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/13213; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00224

Source and supplementary material available at https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00224 . Eastern Fram Strait and the shelf slope region north of Svalbard is dominated by the advection of warm, salty and nutrient-rich Atlantic Water (AW). This oceanic heat contributes to keeping the area relatively...