Fram Strait
Recirculation in the Fram Strait and transports of water in and north of the Fram Strait derived from CTD data
... Fram Strait with a 2600 m sill depth is the most important passage between the Arctic Ocean and the Nordic Seas for oceanic transports of heat and freshwater and for sea ice ...the strait, the West ...
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Influence of synoptic atmospheric conditions on movement of individual sea-ice floes in Fram Strait, late summer 2010
... western Fram Strait in late summer ...the Fram Strait at this time of year may be a key component for understanding ice loss from the Arctic Ocean and its ...
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Role of tectonic stress in seepage evolution along the gas hydrate‐charged Vestnesa Ridge, Fram Strait
... High-resolution P-Cable 3-D seismic data from the ~100 km long hydrate-charged Vestnesa Ridge in Fram Strait revealed faults and fractures that re fl ect the in fl uence of nearby tectonic stress fi elds ...
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Sea ice export through the Fram Strait derived from a combined model and satellite data set
... Firstly, the field and satellite-based observations are used to evaluate the performance of CMST sea ice data in the Fram Strait. The mean sea ice drift and thickness of nearly 6 years of CMST data are ...
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Problems with estimation and interpretation of oceanic heat transport – conceptual remarks for the case of Fram Strait in the Arctic Ocean
... through Fram Strait often reach values of several ...the Fram Strait flow, compensation of large changes can be ...erroneous Fram Strait net transport by flow through other ...
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Fram Strait sea ice export variability and September Arctic sea ice extent over the last 80 years
... of Fram Strait sea ice area export from 1935 to 2014 is developed using a combina- tion of satellite radar images and station observations of sur- face pressure across Fram ...in Fram ...
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3‐D Seismic Investigation of a Gas Hydrate and Fluid Flow System on an Active Mid‐Ocean Ridge; Svyatogor Ridge, Fram Strait
... Knipovich Ridge (Ritzmann et al., 2004), which would have presumably formed in conjunction with rifting on either the Molloy Ridge or the Knipovich Ridge, in a mixed mode scenario of detachment fault and mag- matic ...
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Carbon isotope ( 13 C) excursions suggest times of major methane release during the last 14 kyr in Fram Strait, the deep-water gateway to the Arctic
... the eastern Fram Strait. This is the only deep-water gate- way to the Arctic, and one of the northernmost marine gas hydrate provinces in the world. Eight 14 C AMS dates re- veal a detailed chronology for ...
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Seasonality of archaeal lipid flux and GDGT based thermometry in sinking particles of high latitude oceans: Fram Strait (79° N) and Antarctic Polar Front (50° S)
... ern Fram Strait were likely delivered by a combination of packaging mechanisms involving biological and nonbiolog- ical transport materials with different delay times over the ...eastern Fram ...
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Recent summer sea ice thickness surveys in Fram Strait and associated ice volume fluxes
... For details about data processing and handling we refer to Renner et al. (2014) and Hansen et al. (2013). A decrease in both, modal and mean thickness with a distinct reduction af- ter 2004 is visible in all three data ...
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Freshwater components and transports in the Fram Strait – recent observations and changes since the late 1990s
... from the Yermak Plateau, that had not circumvented the Arc- tic (see also Rudels et al., 2002; Manley, 1995). Although the inflow properties of AW changed during the time period covered by our observations, those changes ...
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Liquid export of Arctic freshwater components through the Fram Strait 1998–2011
... This method uses a system of linear equations (end- member balance) to derive the aforementioned water mass fractions and fractions of Atlantic Water (AW) from each ob- served tracer, assuming certain end-member values ...
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Does the East Greenland Current exist in the northern Fram Strait?
... the Fram Strait transport warm water to the western boundary which increases the along-boundary ...central Fram Strait north of 79 ◦ N, with the possible role of the Molloy Hole; and the shelf ...
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Transient tracer distributions in the Fram Strait in 2012 and inferred anthropogenic carbon content and transport
... deep Fram Strait from 9 ◦ E to 7 ◦ W has been maintained since 1997 by the Al- fred Wegener Institute and the Norwegian Polar ...the Fram Strait has warmed since 1997, Beszczynska-Möller et ...
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Recent wind driven high sea ice area export in the Fram Strait contributes to Arctic sea ice decline
... The overall trend in the Fram Strait pressure difference has been noted and used earlier (Widell et al., 2003; Kwok, 2009). Kwok (2009) also noted that the trend is strongest for January through March. ...
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1-1-2016 The Potential for Abiotic Methane in Arctic Gas Hydrates
... The most well known gas hydrate-bearing drift in the Fram Strait is the Vestnesa Ridge. It is a >100-km-long and 50-km wide sediment drift between the northwest Svalbard margin and the Molloy Transform ...
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Frontal structures in the West Spitsbergen Current margins
... Between the Polar domain occupied by the water carried directly from the AO by the East Greenland Current and Atlantic domain, there is a region called the Arctic do- main. This domain, containing the cyclonic Greenland ...
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Mechanisms causing reduced Arctic sea ice loss in a coupled climate model
... the Fram Strait displays a decrease of similar magnitude, indicating increased export of fresh- water, corresponding to an abrupt slowing of the fall in salin- ity, and probably reflecting “flushing” of ...
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Spitsbergen’s endangered bowhead whales sing through the polar night
... central Fram Strait had less consistent ice cover, bowhead whales may have produced fewer sounds or spent less time in the area because of the potential risk of killer whale Orcinus orca predation, as has ...
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Satellite-derived sea ice export and its impact on Arctic ice mass balance
... The sea level pressure gradient variability through the Fram Strait is also captured in the AO and its correspond- ing index, described in Thompson and Wallace (1998). The AO pattern involves an oscillation ...
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