Atlantic Water in the Nordic Seas - properties, variability, climatic significance

Interannual variability in Nordic seas primary production

Phytoplankton represents the primary trophic level in marine pelagic ecosystems, through which most biological material produced by photosynthesis is further channelled through the foodweb via grazing by zooplankton. Therefore, the level and variability of primary production is believed to be an important factor for fish recruitment and growth. The Nordic seas are important feeding areas for la...

The ocean circulation in the North Atlantic and the Nordic seas : Variability , processes and interactions with the global ocean

Contrasting trends in North Atlantic deep-water formation in the Labrador Sea and Nordic Seas during the Holocene

[1] The Holocene North Atlantic deep-water formation is studied in a 9,000-year long simulation with a coupled climate model of intermediate complexity, forced by changes in orbital forcing and atmospheric trace gas concentrations. During the experiment, deep-water formation in the Nordic Seas is reduced due to an enhanced influx of sea ice from the Central Arctic, decreasing both surface salin...

Sea ice and millennial-scale climate variability in the Nordic seas 90 kyr ago to present

In the light of rapidly diminishing sea ice cover in the Arctic during the present atmospheric warming, it is imperative to study the distribution of sea ice in the past in relation to rapid climate change. Here we focus on glacial millennial-scale climatic events (Dansgaard/Oeschger events) using the sea ice proxy IP25 in combination with phytoplankton proxy data and quantification of diatom s...

Nordic Seas and Arctic Ocean CFC data in CARINA

E. Jeansson1, K. A. Olsson2,*, T. Tanhua3, and J. L. Bullister4 1Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Uni Research, Bergen, Norway 2Department of Chemistry, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden 3Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenshaften, Marine Biogeochemie, Kiel, Germany 4Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA, Seattle, Washington, USA *present address: Volvo Technology Corporatio...