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Continued warming of deep waters in the Fram Strait
Salar Karam
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Mario Hoppmann
Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
Laura de Steur
Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway
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Short summary
A long-term mooring array in the Fram Strait allows for an evaluation of decadal trends in temperature in this major oceanic gateway into the Arctic. Since the 1980s, the deep waters of the Greenland Sea and the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic have warmed rapidly at a rate of 0.11°C and 0.05°C per decade, respectively, at a depth of 2500 m. We show that the temperatures of the two basins converged around 2017 and that the deep waters of the Greenland Sea are now a heat source for the Arctic Ocean.
A long-term mooring array in the Fram Strait allows for an evaluation of decadal trends in...
