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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS
Volume 114, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC005062
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- System Laptev Sea
- DFG [SP 526/3, WE 4206/1-1]
- BMBF [03G0639A]
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Combined delta O-18/salinity data reveal a distinctive water mass generated during winter sea ice formation which is found predominantly in the coastal polynya region of the southern Laptev Sea. Export of the brine-enriched bottom water shows interannual variability in correlation with atmospheric conditions. Summer anticyclonic circulation is favoring an offshore transport of river water at the surface as well as a pronounced signal of brine-enriched waters at about 50 m water depth at the shelf break. Summer cyclonic atmospheric circulation favors onshore or an eastward, alongshore water transport, and at the shelf break the river water fraction is reduced and the pronounced brine signal is missing, while on the middle Laptev Sea shelf, brine-enriched waters are found in high proportions. Residence times of bottom and subsurface waters on the shelf may thereby vary considerably: an export of shelf waters to the Arctic Ocean halocline might be shut down or strongly reduced during onshore'' cyclonic atmospheric circulation, while with offshore'' anticyclonic atmospheric circulation, brine waters are exported and residence times may be as short as 1 year only.
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