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 …

An overview of ocean climate change indicators: Sea surface temperature, ocean heat content, ocean pH, dissolved oxygen concentration, arctic sea ice extent …

C Garcia-Soto, L Cheng, L Caesar… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Global ocean physical and chemical trends are reviewed and updated using seven key
ocean climate change indicators:(i) Sea Surface Temperature,(ii) Ocean Heat Content,(iii) …

Fluctuating Atlantic inflows modulate Arctic atlantification

IV Polyakov, RB Ingvaldsen, AV Pnyushkov, US Bhatt… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Enhanced warm, salty subarctic inflows drive high-latitude atlantification, which weakens
oceanic stratification, amplifies heat fluxes, and reduces sea ice. In this work, we show that …

Borealization of the Arctic Ocean in response to anomalous advection from sub-Arctic seas

IV Polyakov, MB Alkire, BA Bluhm, KA Brown… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
An important yet still not well documented aspect of recent changes in the Arctic Ocean is
associated with the advection of anomalous sub-Arctic Atlantic-and Pacific-origin waters and …

Arctic warming hotspot in the northern Barents Sea linked to declining sea-ice import

S Lind, RB Ingvaldsen, T Furevik - Nature climate change, 2018 - nature.com
The Arctic has warmed dramatically in recent decades, with greatest temperature increases
observed in the northern Barents Sea. The warming signatures are not constrained to the …

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 …

Decline in global oceanic oxygen content during the past five decades

S Schmidtko, L Stramma, M Visbeck - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Ocean models predict a decline in the dissolved oxygen inventory of the global ocean of one
to seven per cent by the year 2100, caused by a combination of a warming-induced decline …

Freshwater and its role in the Arctic Marine System: Sources, disposition, storage, export, and physical and biogeochemical consequences in the Arctic and global …

EC Carmack, M Yamamoto‐Kawai… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Arctic Ocean is a fundamental node in the global hydrological cycle and the
ocean's thermohaline circulation. We here assess the system's key functions and …

Arctic sea ice in transformation: A review of recent observed changes and impacts on biology and human activity

WN Meier, GK Hovelsrud, BEH Van Oort… - Reviews of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Sea ice in the Arctic is one of the most rapidly changing components of the global climate
system. Over the past few decades, summer areal extent has declined over 30%, and all …

The Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Gyre

ML Timmermans, JM Toole - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Gyre is a dominant feature of the Arctic system, a prominent
indicator of climate change, and possibly a control factor for high-latitude climate. The state …