Arctic warming interrupts the Transpolar Drift and affects long-range transport of sea ice and ice-rafted matter

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 9; no. 1; p. 5459
• Main Authors: Krumpen, Thomas, Belter, H. Jakob, Boetius, Antje, Damm, Ellen, Haas, Christian, Hendricks, Stefan, Nicolaus, Marcel, Nöthig, Eva-Maria, Paul, Stephan, Peeken, Ilka, Ricker, Robert, Stein, Rüdiger
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 02.04.2019; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 704/106/125; 704/106/694; 704/47; Biodiversity; Drift; Gases; Humanities and Social Sciences; Ice; Ice drift; Marine pollution; multidisciplinary; Particulate matter; Primary production; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Sea ice; Sediments; Shallow water; Survival; Temperature; Arctic Ocean; Arctic region; Laptev Sea

Sea ice is an important transport vehicle for gaseous, dissolved and particulate matter in the Arctic Ocean. Due to the recently observed acceleration in sea ice drift, it has been assumed that more matter is advected by the Transpolar Drift from shallow shelf waters to the central Arctic Ocean and...