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Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-169-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-169-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
Research article
 | 
25 Jan 2016
Research article |  | 25 Jan 2016

The Barents Sea frontal zones and water masses variability (1980–2011)

L. Oziel, J. Sirven, and J.-C. Gascard

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The Barents Sea (BS) is a subpolar region and a zone transition where the Atlantic and the Arctic water masses meets and creates the "Polar Front". This study, based on one of the largest hydrological data set, showed for the first time that the "Polar Front" splits into two branches in the eastern part of the BS. This study also showed that, in a context of climate change, the BS experiences an "Atlantification", which goes along with a north-eastward shift of the frontal structure.
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