Low Density of Top Predators (Seabirds and Marine Mammals) in the High Arctic Pack Ice [PDF]
Scientifica, 2016 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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Culturable diversity of Arctic phytoplankton during pack ice melting [PDF]
Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 2020 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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Sympagic Fauna in and Under Arctic Pack Ice in the Annual Sea-Ice System of the New Arctic [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 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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Leads in Arctic pack ice enable early phytoplankton blooms below snow-covered sea ice [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 © The Author(s), 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Scientific Reports 7 (2017): 40850, doi:10.1038/srep40850.The Arctic icescape is rapidly transforming ...
Philipp Assmy +40 more
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Status and trends in the structure of Arctic benthic food webs [PDF]
Polar Research, 2015 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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Future sea ice weakening amplifies wind-driven trends in surface stress and Arctic Ocean spin-up [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsArctic 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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The summer aerosol in the central Arctic 1991–2008: did it change or not? [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2012 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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Multiscale mushy layer model for Arctic marginal ice zone dynamics [PDF]
Scientific ReportsPerhaps 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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Floating ice-algal aggregates below melting arctic sea ice. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 During two consecutive cruises to the Eastern Central Arctic in late summer 2012, we observed floating algal aggregates in the melt-water layer below and between melting ice floes of first-year pack ice.
Philipp Assmy +18 more
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Scaling aspects of the sea-ice-drift dynamics and pack fracture [PDF]
Ocean Science, 2007 A study of the sea-ice dynamics in the periods of time prior to and during the cycles of basin-wide fragmentation of the ice cover in the Arctic Ocean is presented. The fractal geometry of the ice-sheets limited by leads and ridges was assessed using the
A. Chmel, V. N. Smirnov, L. V. Panov
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