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dc.contributor.authorSlagstad, Dag
dc.contributor.authorWassmann, Paul
dc.contributor.authorEllingsen, Ingrid H.
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-08T13:00:39Z
dc.date.available2016-03-08T13:00:39Z
dc.date.issued2015-10-20
dc.description.abstractToday's physical oceanography and primary and secondary production was investigated for the entire Arctic Ocean (AO) with the physical-biologically coupled SINMOD model. To obtain indications on the effect of climate change in the twenty-first century the magnitude of change, and where and when these may take place SINMOD was forced with down-scaled climate trajectories of the International Panel of Climate Change with the A1B climate scenario which appears to predict an average global atmospheric temperature increase of 3.5–4°C at the end of this century. It is projected that some surface water features of the physical oceanography in the AO and adjacent regions will change considerably. The largest changes will occur along the continuous domains of Pacific and in particular regarding Atlantic Water (AW) advection and the inflow shelves. Withdrawal of ice will increase primary production, but stratification will persist or, for the most, get stronger as a function of ice-melt and thermal warming along the inflow shelves. Thus, the nutrient dependent new and harvestable production will not increase proportionally with increasing photosynthetic active radiation (PAR). The greatest increases in primary production are found along the Eurasian perimeter of the AO (up to 40 g C m−2 y−1) and in particular in the northern Barents and Kara Seas (40–80 g C m−2 y−1) where less ice-cover implies less Arctic Water (ArW) and thus less stratification. Along the shelf break engirdling the AO upwelling and vertical mixing supplies nutrients to the euphotic zone when ice-cover withdraws northwards. The production of Arctic copepods along the Eurasian perimeter of the AO will increase significantly by the end of this century (2–4 g C m−2 y−1). Primary and secondary production will decrease along the southern sections of the continuous advection domains of Pacific and AW due to increasing thermal stratification. In the central AO primary production will not increase much due to stratification-induced nutrient limitation.en_US
dc.descriptionPublished version. Also available at <a href= http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2015.00085> http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2015.00085</a>en_US
dc.identifier.citationFrontiers in Marine Science 2015, 2:85en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1312086
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fmars.2015.00085
dc.identifier.issn2296-7745
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/8770
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_8341
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherFrontiersen_US
dc.relation.projectIDNotur/NorStore: NN2967K
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.subjectVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Oseanografi: 452en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450::Oceanography: 452en_US
dc.subjectArctic Oceanen_US
dc.subjectprimary productionen_US
dc.subjectsecondary productionen_US
dc.subjectchanges in productivityen_US
dc.subjectfuture ecosystemsen_US
dc.subjectclimate change projectionsen_US
dc.titlePhysical constrains and productivity in the future Arctic Oceanen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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