Arctic Ocean Geography The Arctic Ocean has a surface area of about 14.056 million square kilometers (5.427 million square miles), making it the smallest of Earth's five oceans. Baffin Bay, Barents Sea, Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, East Siberian Sea, Greenland Sea, Hudson Bay, Hudson Straight...
While the Arctic Ocean represents only about 2% of the global ocean in terms of volume and surface area, it receives a disproportionate amount of freshwater from rivers. In fact, the Arctic Ocean collects over 11% of global river discharge. Some of this additional runoff is coming from ...
& Wang, X. Sea ice retreat contributes to projected increases in extreme Arctic Ocean surface waves. Geophys. Res. Lett. 47, e2020GL088100 (2020). Article ADS Google Scholar Waseda, T. et al. Correlated increase of high ocean waves and winds in the ice-free waters of the Arctic Ocean...
The ocean has deep trenches and also some ridges, the biggest ridge is Lomonosov Ridge which divides the ocean into the Amerasian basin and the Eurasian basin. 5.Arctic Ocean Facts:Icebergsand ice packswill be encountered in the Arctic during any season, but the oceans surface will be covered...
Salinity-driven density stratification of the upper Arctic Ocean isolates sea-ice cover and cold, nutrient-poor surface waters from underlying warmer, nutrient-rich waters. Recently, stratification has strengthened in the western Arctic but has weakened
As the frozen ground warms much faster than expected, it’s reshaping the landscape—and releasing carbon gases that fuel global warming.
Observations suggest that despite extensive ice coverage, the Arctic Ocean presently acts as a sink for atmospheric CO2 and even plays a disproportionate role in global oceanic uptake, relative to its surface area (Bates and Mathis, 2009). High levels of primary production over extensive shelf ...
Large freshwater contributions to the Arctic Ocean from a variety of sources combine in what is, by global standards, a remarkably small ocean basin. Indee
In the Nordic Seas, on the other hand, the Eemian might have been cooler than the Holocene due to a reduction in the northward flow of Atlantic surface water towards Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean, indicating the complexity of the interglacial climate system and its evolution in the ...
As a cooling machine of the Arctic Ocean, the Barents Sea releases most of the incoming ocean heat originating from the North Atlantic. The related air-sea heat exchange plays a crucial role in both regulating the climate and determining the deep circula