• Atlantic water properties, transport and heat loss from mooring observations north of Svalbard 

      Koenig, Zoe Charlotte; Kalhagen, Kjersti; Kolås, Eivind Hugaas; Fer, Ilker; Nilsen, Frank; Cottier, Finlo (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-05)
      The Atlantic Water inflow to the Arctic Ocean is transformed and modified in the area north of Svalbard, which influences the Arctic Ocean heat and salt budget. Year-round observations are relatively sparse in this region partially covered by sea ice. We took advantage of one-year-long records of ocean currents and hydrography from seven moorings north of Svalbard. The moorings are organized in ...
    • Diffusive and advective cross-frontal fluxes of inorganic nutrients and dissolved inorganic carbon in the Barents Sea in autumn 

      Koenig, Zoe Charlotte; Fer, Ilker; Chierici, Melissa; Fransson, Agneta; Jones, Elizabeth Marie; Kolås, Eivind Hugaas (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-11-21)
      The Atlantic Water, entering the Arctic through the Barents Sea and Fram Strait, is the main source of nutrients in the Arctic Ocean. The Barents Sea is divided by the Polar Front into an Atlantic-dominated domain in the south, and an Arctic-dominated domain in the north. The Polar Front is a thermohaline structure, which is topographically-steered at sub-surface, and influenced by the seasonal ...
    • Nutrients vs. turbulence, and the future of Arctic Ocean primary production 

      Randelhoff, Achim; Sundfjord, Arild; Fer, Ilker; Reigstad, Marit; Tremblay, Jean-Eric; Guthrie, John D. (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2016-11)
      This poster presents estimates of nitrate fluxes in the Arctic Ocean and speculates on the associated primary production in a future climate.
    • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Physical oceanography 

      Rabe, Benjamin; Baumann, Till Martin; Divine, Dmitry; Fer, Ilker; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf; Granskog, Mats; Koenig, Zoe Charlotte; Muilwijk, Morven; Sundfjord, Arild; Heuze´, Céline; Regnery, Julia; Aksenov, Yevgeny; Allerholt, Jacob; Athanase, Marylou; Bai, Youcheng; Basque, Chris; Bauch, Dorothea; Chen, Dake; Cole, Sylvia T.; Craw, Lisa; Davies, Andrew; Damm, Ellen; Dethloff, Klaus; Doglioni, Francesca; Ebert, Falk; Fang, Ying-Chih; Fong, Allison A.; Graupner, Rainer; Haas, Christian; He, Hailun; He, Yan; Hoppmann, Mario; Janout, Markus; Kadko, David; Kanzow, Torsten; Karam, Salar; Kawaguchi, Yusuke; Kong, Bin; Krishfield, Richard A.; Krumpen, Thomas; Kuhlmey, David; Kuznetsov, Ivan; Lan, Musheng; Laukert, Georgi; Lei, Ruibo; Li, Lao; Torres-Valdés, Sinhué; Lin, Lina; Lin, Long; Liu, Hailong; Liu, Na; Loose, Brice; Ma, Xiaobing; McKay, Rosalie; Mallet, Maria; Mallet, Robbie D .C.; Maslowski, Wieslaw; Mertens, Christian; Mohrholz, Volker; Nicolaus, Marcel; O'Brien, Jeffrey K.; Perovich, Donald; Ren, Jian; Rex, Markus; Ribeiro, Natalia; Rinke, Annette; Sokolov, Vladimir; Sommerfeld, Anja; Spreen, Gunnar; Stanton, Timothy; Stephens, Mark; Su, Jie; Sukhikh, Natalia; Thomisch, Karolin; Tippenhauer, Sandra; Toole, John M.; Vredenborg, Myriel; Walter, Maren; Wang, Hangzhou; Wang, Lei; Wang, Yuntao; Wendisch, Manfred; Zhao, Jinping; Zhou, Meng; Zhu, Jialiang (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-07)
      Arctic Ocean properties and processes are highly relevant to the regional and global coupled climate system, yet still scarcely observed, especially in winter. Team OCEAN conducted a full year of physical oceanography observations as part of the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of the Arctic Climate (MOSAiC), a drift with the Arctic sea ice from October 2019 to September 2020. ...
    • Still Arctic? — The changing Barents Sea 

      Gerland, Sebastian; Ingvaldsen, Randi Brunvær; Reigstad, Marit; Sundfjord, Arild; Bogstad, Bjarte; Chierici, Melissa; Hop, Haakon; Renaud, Paul Eric; Smedsrud, Lars Henrik; Stige, Leif Christian; Årthun, Marius; Berge, Jørgen; Bluhm, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro; Borgå, Katrine; Bratbak, Gunnar; Divine, Dmitry V; Eldevik, Tor; Eriksen, Elena; Fer, Ilker; Fransson, Agneta; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf; Granskog, Mats A.; Haug, Tore; Husum, Katrine; Johnsen, Geir; Jonassen, Marius Opsanger; Jørgensen, Lis Lindal; Kristiansen, Svein; Larsen, Aud; Lien, Vidar Surén; Lind, Sigrid; Lindstrøm, Ulf Ove; Mauritzen, Cecilie; Melsom, Arne; Mernild, Sebastian H.; Müller, Malte; Nilsen, Frank; Primicerio, Raul; Søreide, Janne; van der Meeren, Gro Ingleid; Wassmann, Paul (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-11-13)
      The Barents Sea is one of the Polar regions where current climate and ecosystem change is most pronounced. Here we review the current state of knowledge of the physical, chemical and biological systems in the Barents Sea. Physical conditions in this area are characterized by large seasonal contrasts between partial sea-ice cover in winter and spring versus predominantly open water in summer and ...
    • Thin and transient meltwater layers and false bottoms in the Arctic sea ice pack-Recent insights on these historically overlooked features 

      Smith, Madison M.; Muilwijk, Morven; Chierici, Melissa; Fer, Ilker; Fransson, Agneta; Gardner, Jessie; Granskog, Mats; Müller, Oliver; Salganik, Evgenii; Angot, He´le`ne; Chamberlain, Emelia J.; Droste, Elise S.; Karam, Salar; Webb, Alison L.; Archer, Stephen D.; Beck, Ivo; Blomquist, Byron W.; Bowman, Jeff; Boyer, Matthew; Bozzato, Deborah; Creamean, Jessie; D’Angelo, Alessandra; Delille, Bruno; Fong, Allison A.; Fuchs, Niels; Hoppe, Clara J. M.; Hoppema, Mario; Hoppmann, Mario; Mock, Thomas; Muller, Sofia; Nicolaus, Marcel; Nomura, Daiki; Petääja, Tuukka; Schmale, Julia; Schmidt, Katrin; Schulz, Kirstin M.; Shupe, Matthew D.; Stefels, Jacqueline; Thielke, Linda; Tippenhauer, Sandra; Ulfsbo, Adam; van Leeuwe, Maria; Webster, Melinda; Yoshimura, Masaki; Zhan, Liyang (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-09-07)
      The rapid melt of snow and sea ice during the Arctic summer provides a significant source of low-salinity meltwater to the surface ocean on the local scale. The accumulation of this meltwater on, under, and around sea ice floes can result in relatively thin meltwater layers in the upper ocean. Due to the small-scale nature of these upper-ocean features, typically on the order of 1 m thick or less, ...
    • Turbulent heat and momentum fluxes in the upper ocean under Arctic sea ice 

      Peterson, Algot Kristoffer; Fer, Ilker; McPhee, Miles G.; Randelhoff, Achim (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-02-25)
      We report observations of heat and momentum fluxes measured in the ice-ocean boundary layer from four drift stations between January and June 2015, covering from the typical Arctic basin conditions in the Nansen Basin to energetic spots of interaction with the warm Atlantic Water branches near the Yermak Plateau and over the North Spitsbergen slope. A wide range of oceanic turbulent heat flux values ...
    • Vertical fluxes of nitrate in the seasonal nitracline of the Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean 

      Randelhoff, Achim; Fer, Ilker; Sundfjord, Arild; Tremblay, Jean-Éric; Reigstad, Marit (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-07-31)
      <p>This study compiles colocated oceanic observations of high-resolution vertical profiles of nitrate concentration and turbulent microstructure around the Svalbard shelf slope, covering both the permanently ice-free Fram Strait and the pack ice north of Svalbard. The authors present an overview over the seasonal evolution of the distribution of nitrate and its relation to upper ocean stratification. ...
    • Weakening of Cold Halocline Layer Exposes Sea Ice to Oceanic Heat in the Eastern Arctic Ocean 

      Polyakov, Igor V.; Rippeth, Tom; Fer, Ilker; Alkire, Matthew B.; Carmack, Eddy; Ingvaldsen, Randi Brunvær; Ivanov, Vladimir V.; Janout, Markus; Lind, Sigrid; Padman, Laurie; Pnyushkov, Andrey V.; Rember, Robert (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-20)
      A 15-yr duration record of mooring observations from the eastern (>70°E) Eurasian Basin (EB) of the Arctic Ocean is used to show and quantify the recently increased oceanic heat flux from intermediate-depth (~150–900 m) warm Atlantic Water (AW) to the surface mixed layer and sea ice. The upward release of AW heat is regulated by the stability of the overlying halocline, which we show has weakened ...
    • Winter storms accelerate the demise of sea ice in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean 

      Graham, Robert M.; Itkin, Polona; Meyer, Amelie; Sundfjord, Arild; Spreen, Gunnar; Smedsrud, Lars H.; Liston, Glen E.; Cheng, Bin; Cohen, Lana; Divine, Dmitry; Fer, Ilker; Fransson, Agneta; Gerland, Sebastian; Haapala, Jari; Hudson, Stephen R.; Johansson, Malin; King, Jennifer A.; Merkouriadi, Ioanna; Peterson, Algot Kristoffer; Provost, Christine; Randelhoff, Achim; Rinke, Annette; Rösel, Anja; Sennechael, Nathalie; Walden, Von P.; Duarte, Pedro; Assmy, Philipp; Steen, Harald; Granskog, Mats A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-06-25)
      A large retreat of sea-ice in the ‘stormy’ Atlantic Sector of the Arctic Ocean has become evident through a series of record minima for the winter maximum sea-ice extent since 2015. Results from the Norwegian young sea ICE (N-ICE2015) expedition, a five-month-long (Jan-Jun) drifting ice station in first and second year pack-ice north of Svalbard, showcase how sea-ice in this region is frequently ...