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SUBMITTER: Zhang J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7902633 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Jiaxu J Weijer Wilbert W Steele Michael M Cheng Wei W Verma Tarun T Veneziani Milena M
Nature communications 20210223 1
The Beaufort Gyre (BG), the largest Arctic Ocean freshwater reservoir, has drastically increased its liquid freshwater content by 40% in the past two decades. If released within a short period, the excess freshwater could potentially impact the large-scale ocean circulation by freshening the upper subpolar North Atlantic. Here, we track BG-sourced freshwater using passive tracers in a global ocean sea-ice model and show that this freshwater exited the Arctic mostly through the Canadian Arctic Ar ...[more]