• Arctic continental slopes sharp gradients of physical processes affect pelagic and benthic ecosystems. 

      Bluhm, Bodil; Janout, Markus; Danielson, Seth L.; Ellingsen, Ingrid H.; Gavrilo, Maria; Grebmeier, Jaqueline; Hopcroft, Russell R.; Iken, Katrin; Ingvaldsen, Randi Brunvær; Jørgensen, Lis Lindal; Kosobokova, Ksenia N.; Kwok, Ron; Polyakov, Igor V.; Renaud, Paul E.; Carmack, Eddy C. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Continental slopes – steep regions between the shelf break and abyssal ocean – play key roles in the climatology and ecology of the Arctic Ocean. Here, through review and synthesis, we find that the narrow slope regions ...
    • Fluctuating Atlantic inflows modulate Arctic atlantification 

      Polyakov, Igor V.; Ingvaldsen, Randi Brunvær; Pnyushkov, Andrey V.; Bhatt, Uma S.; Francis, Jennifer A.; Janout, Markus; Kwok, Ronald; Skagseth, Øystein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Enhanced warm, salty subarctic inflows drive high-latitude atlantification, which weakens oceanic stratification, amplifies heat fluxes, and reduces sea ice. In this work, we show that the atmospheric Arctic Dipole (AD) ...
    • Variability and redistribution of heat in the Atlantic Water boundary current north of Svalbard 

      Renner, Angelika; Sundfjord, Arild; Janout, Markus; Ingvaldsen, Randi Brunvær; Beszczynska, Agnieszka; Pickart, Robert S.; Peréz-Hernández, M. Dolores (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      We quantify Atlantic Water heat loss north of Svalbard using year‐long hydrographic and current records from three moorings deployed across the Svalbard Branch of the Atlantic Water boundary current in 2012–2013. The ...
    • 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 (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      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) ...