Future sea ice weakening amplifies wind-driven trends in surface stress and Arctic Ocean spin-up [PDF]
Arctic sea ice mediates atmosphere-ocean momentum transfer, which drives upper ocean circulation. How Arctic Ocean surface stress and velocity respond to sea ice decline and changing winds under global warming is unclear.
Morven Muilwijk+3 more
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Low Density of Top Predators (Seabirds and Marine Mammals) in the High Arctic Pack Ice [PDF]
The at-sea distribution of top predators, seabirds and marine mammals, was determined in the high Arctic pack ice on board the icebreaker RV Polarstern in July to September 2014. In total, 1,620 transect counts were realised, lasting 30 min each.
Claude R. Joiris+3 more
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Platelet Ice Under Arctic Pack Ice in Winter [PDF]
The formation of platelet ice is well known to occur under Antarctic sea ice, where subice platelet layers form from supercooled ice shelf water. In the Arctic, however, platelet ice formation has not been extensively observed, and its formation and ...
Christian Katlein+23 more
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Sympagic Fauna in and Under Arctic Pack Ice in the Annual Sea-Ice System of the New Arctic [PDF]
A strong decline and thinning of the Arctic sea-ice cover over the past five decades has been documented. The former multiyear sea-ice system has largely changed to an annual system and with it the dynamics of sea-ice transport across the Arctic Ocean ...
Julia Ehrlich+8 more
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Multiscale mushy layer model for Arctic marginal ice zone dynamics [PDF]
Perhaps the most dynamic component of the Arctic sea ice cover is the marginal ice zone (MIZ), the transitional region between dense pack ice to the north and open ocean to the south.
Courtenay Strong+2 more
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Status and trends in the structure of Arctic benthic food webs [PDF]
Ongoing climate warming is causing a dramatic loss of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, and it is projected that the Arctic Ocean will become seasonally ice-free by 2040.
Monika Kędra+13 more
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Potential source regions and processes of aerosol in the summer Arctic [PDF]
Sub-micrometer particle size distributions measured during four summer cruises of the Swedish icebreaker Oden 1991, 1996, 2001, and 2008 were combined with dimethyl sulfide gas data, back trajectories, and daily maps of pack ice cover in order to ...
J. Heintzenberg, C. Leck, P. Tunved
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Culturable diversity of Arctic phytoplankton during pack ice melting [PDF]
Massive phytoplankton blooms develop at the Arctic ice edge, sometimes extending far under the pack ice. An extensive culturing effort was conducted before and during a phytoplankton bloom in Baffin Bay between April and July 2016.
Catherine Gérikas Ribeiro+7 more
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Winter sea ice export from the Laptev Sea preconditions the local summer sea ice cover and fast ice decay [PDF]
Ice retreat in the eastern Eurasian Arctic is a consequence of atmospheric and oceanic processes and regional feedback mechanisms acting on the ice cover, both in winter and summer.
P. Itkin, P. Itkin, T. Krumpen
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The summer aerosol in the central Arctic 1991–2008: did it change or not? [PDF]
In the course of global warming dramatic changes are taking place in the Arctic and boreal environments. However, physical aerosol data in from the central summer Arctic taken over the course of 18 yr from 1991 to 2008 do not show systematic year-to-year
J. Heintzenberg, C. Leck
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