Articles | Volume 17, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-1081-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-1081-2021
Review article
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17 Aug 2021
Review article |  | 17 Aug 2021

Freshwater in the Arctic Ocean 2010–2019

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Freshwater in the Arctic Ocean plays a critical role in the global climate system by impacting ocean circulations, stratification, mixing, and emergent regimes. In this review paper we assess how Arctic Ocean freshwater changed in the 2010s relative to the 2000s. Estimates from observations and reanalyses show a qualitative stabilization in the 2010s due to a compensation between a freshening of the Beaufort Gyre and a reduction in freshwater in the Amerasian and Eurasian basins.