Physical manifestations and ecological implications of Arctic Atlantification

RB Ingvaldsen, KM Assmann, R Primicerio… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
The Atlantic gateway to the Arctic Ocean is influenced by vigorous inflows of Atlantic Water.
The high-latitude impacts of these inflows have strengthened owing to climate change …

Understanding Arctic Ocean circulation: A review of ocean dynamics in a changing climate

ML Timmermans, J Marshall - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Arctic Ocean is a focal point of climate change, with ocean warming,
freshening, sea‐ice decline, and circulation that link to the changing atmospheric and …

Polar regions

MP Meredith, M Sommerkorn… - The ocean and …, 2019 - research.monash.edu
This chapter assesses the state of physical, biological and social knowledge concerning the
Arctic and Antarctic ocean and cryosphere, how they are affected by climate change, and …

Arctic Ocean Amplification in a warming climate in CMIP6 models

Q Shu, Q Wang, M Årthun, S Wang, Z Song… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Arctic near-surface air temperature warms much faster than the global average, a
phenomenon known as Arctic Amplification. The change of the underlying Arctic Ocean …

Increased ocean heat transport into the Nordic Seas and Arctic Ocean over the period 1993–2016

T Tsubouchi, K Våge, B Hansen, KMH Larsen… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Warm water of subtropical origin flows northward in the Atlantic Ocean and transports heat to
high latitudes. This poleward heat transport has been implicated as one possible cause of …

Antarctic bottom water and North Atlantic deep water in CMIP6 models

C Heuzé - Ocean Science Discussions, 2020 - os.copernicus.org
Deep water formation is the driver of the global ocean circulation, yet it was poorly
represented in the previous generation of climate models. We here quantify biases in …

Past perspectives on the present era of abrupt Arctic climate change

E Jansen, JH Christensen, T Dokken… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Abrupt climate change is a striking feature of many climate records, particularly the warming
events in Greenland ice cores. These abrupt and high-amplitude events were tightly coupled …

The seasonal and regional transition to an ice‐free Arctic

M Årthun, IH Onarheim, J Dörr… - Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Arctic sea ice cover is currently retreating and will continue its retreat in a warming
world. However, the loss of sea ice is neither regionally nor seasonally uniform. Here, we …

Reduced efficiency of the Barents Sea cooling machine

Ø Skagseth, T Eldevik, M Årthun, H Asbjørnsen… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Dense water masses from the Barents Sea are an important part of the Arctic thermohaline
system. Here, using hydrographic observations from 1971 to 2018, we show that the Barents …

Atmospheric forcing dominates winter Barents-Kara sea ice variability on interannual to decadal time scales

Z Liu, C Risi, F Codron, Z Jian, Z Wei… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The last two decades have seen a dramatic decline and strong year-to-year variability in
Arctic winter sea ice, especially in the Barents-Kara Sea (BKS), changes that have been …