Arctic Ocean Water Mass Transformation in S–T Coordinates

Arctic pathways of Pacific Water: Arctic Ocean Model Intercomparison experiments

Pacific Water (PW) enters the Arctic Ocean through Bering Strait and brings in heat, fresh water, and nutrients from the northern Bering Sea. The circulation of PW in the central Arctic Ocean is only partially understood due to the lack of observations. In this paper, pathways of PW are investigated using simulations with six state-of-the art regional and global Ocean General Circulation Models...

Diatom flux reflects water-mass conditions on the southern Northwind Abyssal Plain, Arctic Ocean

We studied time-series fluxes of diatom particles from 4 October 2010 to 18 September 2012 using bottomtethered moorings with two sediment traps deployed at 180 and 1300 m depths at Station NAP (75 N, 162W; 1975 m water depth) in the western Arctic Ocean. This paper discusses on the relationship of time-series diatom fluxes to satellite-based sea-ice motion and simulated hydrographic variations...

Sensitivity of water mass transformation and heat transport to subgridscale mixing in coarse-resolution ocean models

[1] This paper considers the impact of the parameterization of subgridscale mixing on ocean heat transport in coarseresolution ocean models of the type used in coupled climate models. Increasing the vertical diffusion increases poleward heat transport in both hemispheres. Increasing lateral diffusion associated with transient eddies increases poleward heat transport in the southern hemisphere w...

Upper Arctic Ocean water masses harbor distinct communities

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Ocean Modeling in Isopycnic Coordinates