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Dec 12, 2018 · It was a polynya – an area of unfrozen water surrounded by the polar ice pack. Though not especially rare in some parts of the Arctic, the north Greenland polynya of February of this year was an unexpected 50,000 square kilometres of open water in the Wandel Sea, an area the size of the province of Nova Scotia.
Jun 29, 2015 · The air–sea transfer of heat and fresh water plays a critical role in the global climate system 1.This is particularly true for the Greenland and Iceland seas, where these fluxes drive ocean ...
- George William Kent Moore, Kjetil Våge, Robert S. Pickart, Ian A. Renfrew
- 2015
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Jun 8, 2021 · The Greenland Sea is often viewed as the northern terminus of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. It has also been proposed that the shutdown of open-ocean deep convection in the ...
- Rong Zhang, Matthew Thomas, Matthew Thomas
- 2021
Jul 18, 2023 · Sea ice cover along Greenland’s east coast has decreased as a result of a warming Arctic outflow and more returning warm Atlantic water, according to ocean temperature observations in the Fram ...
Oct 24, 2023 · Meltwater that runs along the east coast of Greenland, hardly enters the open ocean before reaching the western side of the island. In the changing climate, fresh water from Greenland and the ...
The ocean covers an area of 7,848,000 square miles and has an average depth between 13,000 and 16,000 feet. This makes it the fourth largest of earth’s five major oceans. In winter, sea (or pack) ice forms on the ocean along the Antarctica coastline and extends out, almost doubling the size of the continent.
The North Water Polynya, called Sarvarjuaq in Inuktitut and Pikialasorsuaq in Greenlandic, is one of the planet’s most productive ocean ecosystems. An open-water area surrounded by ice in northern Baffin Bay, it supports an abundance of marine mammals, including narwhal, walrus, seals and polar bears, as well as seabirds and a variety of fish.
