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PT J
TI Evolution of the Arctic Ocean Salinity, 2007-08: Contrast between the Canadian and the Eurasian Basins
BT 
AF LIQUE, Camille
   GARRIC, Gilles
   TREGUIER, Anne-Marie
   BARNIER, Bernard
   FERRY, Nicolas
   TESTUT, Charles-Emmanuel
   ARDHUIN, Fanny
AS 1:1;2:2;3:1;4:3;5:2;6:2;7:4;
FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:PDG-ODE-OPS-LOS;
C1 CNRS IFREMER IRD UBO, Lab Phys Oceans, Brest, France.
   Mercator Ocean, Toulouse, France.
   CNRS INPG UJF, LEGI, Grenoble, France.
   IFREMER, Lab Oceanog Spatiale, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
C2 CNRS, FRANCE
   MERCATOR OCEAN, FRANCE
   UNIV GRENOBLE, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
SI BREST
SE PDG-ODE-OPS-LPO
   PDG-ODE-OPS-LOS
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-france
   copubli-univ-france
IF 4.097
TC 13
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00035/14637/11946.pdf
LA English
DT Article
AB The authors investigate the variability of salinity in the Arctic Ocean and in the Nordic and Labrador Seas over recent years to see how the freshwater balance in the Arctic and the exchanges with the North Atlantic have been affected by the recent important sea ice melting, especially during the 2007 sea ice extent minimum. The Global Ocean Reanalysis and Simulations (GLORYS1) global ocean reanalysis based on a global coupled ocean sea ice model with an average of 12-km grid resolution in the Arctic Ocean is used in this regard. Although no sea ice data and no data under sea ice are assimilated, simulation over the 2001-09 period is shown to represent fairly well the 2007 sea ice event and the different components accounting for the ocean and sea ice freshwater budget, compared to available observations. In the reanalysis, the 2007 sea ice minimum is due to an increase of the sea ice export through Fram Strait (25%) and an important sea ice melt in the Arctic (75%). Liquid freshwater is accumulated in the Beaufort gyre after 2002, in agreement with recent observations, and it is shown that this accumulation is due to both the sea ice melt and a spatial redistribution of the freshwater content in the Canadian Basin. In the Eurasian Basin, a very contrasting situation is found with an increase of the salinity. The effect of the sea ice melt is counterbalanced by an increase of the Atlantic inflow and a modification of the circulation north of Fram Strait after 2007. The authors suggest that a strong anomaly of the atmospheric conditions was responsible for this change of the circulation.
PY 2011
PD MAR
SO Journal Of Climate
SN 0894-8755
PU Amer Meteorological Soc
VL 24
IS 6
UT 000289869400009
BP 1705
EP 1717
DI 10.1175/2010JCLI3762.1
ID 14637
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