Tracking freshwater browning and coastal water darkening from boreal forests to the Arctic Ocean

• Main Authors: Opdal, Anders Frugård, Andersen, Tom, Hessen, Dag Olav, Lindemann, Christian, Aksnes, Dag L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: CDOM; coastal darkening; greening; browning; Forest cover; light attenuation; freshwater; Baltic Sea; Skagerrak; Norwegian Coastal Water; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barents Sea; Norway; Kattegat; Browning
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7701266; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7701266

The forest cover of Northern Europe has been steadily expanding during the last 120 years. More terrestrial vegetation and carbon fixation leads to more export to surface waters. This may cause freshwater browning, as more degraded plant-litter ends up as chromophoric (coloured) dissolved organic ma...