Fate of Early 2000s Arctic Warm Water Pulse

• Published in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Vol. 92; no. 5; pp. 561 - 566
• Main Authors: Polyakov, Igor V., Alexeev, Vladimir A., Ashik, Igor M., Bacon, Sheldon, Beszczynska-Möller, Agnieszka, Carmack, Eddy C., Dmitrenko, Igor A., Fortier, Louis, Gascard, Jean-Claude, Hansen, Edmond, Hölemann, Jens, Ivanov, Vladimir V., Kikuchi, Takashi, Kirillov, Sergey, Lenn, Yueng-Djern, McLaughlin, Fiona A., Piechura, Jan, Repina, Irina, Timokhov, Leonid A., Walczowski, Waldemar, Woodgate, Rebecca
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston American Meteorological Society 01.05.2011
• Subjects: Archives & records; Basins; Cooling; Data collection; Earth Sciences; Environmental Sciences; Geophysics; Global Changes; Global warming; Ice; IN BOX INSIGHTS and INNOVATIONS; Moorings; Ocean currents; Ocean temperature; Oceans; Physics; Salinity; Sciences of the Universe; Sea water; Seas; Studies; Surface water; Water temperature; Arctic Ocean; PN, Arctic
• ISSN: 0003-0007; 1520-0477
• DOI: 10.1175/2010bams2921.1

Extensive observations made in 2007 under the auspices of the International Polar Year revealed temperature anomalies of up to 1°C along the AW pathway in an advection pattern similar to that observed in the 1990s. [...] a comparison of the AW temperatures from the 1990s and 2007 showed this second warming to be, on average, 0.2°C greater than the 1990s warming. According to these estimates, it took ~5 years for the warming to reach the Laptev Sea slope from the Fram Strait region (Fig. 2), suggesting a speed of ~1.5 cm s-1.