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2020 Vol. 39, No. 9

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2020, (9): 1-2.
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Editorial
Exploring the Arctic Ocean under Arctic amplification
Ruibo Lei, Zexun Wei
2020, 39(9): 1-4. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1642-9
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Articles
Characterization of the unprecedented polynya events north of Greenland in 2017/2018 using remote sensing and reanalysis data
Ruibo Lei, Dawei Gui, Zhuoli Yuan, Xiaoping Pang, Ding Tao, Mengxi Zhai
2020, 39(9): 5-17. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1643-8
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Based on an ice concentration threshold of 90%, it has been identified that two polynya events occurred in the region north of Greenland during the 2017/2018 ice season. The winter event lasted from February 20 to March 3, 2018 and the summer event p...
Comparison of summer Arctic sea ice surface temperatures from in situ and MODIS measurements
Na Li, Bingrui Li, Ruibo Lei, Qun Li
2020, 39(9): 18-24. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1644-7
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Ship-borne infrared radiometric measurements conducted during the Chinese National Arctic Research Expedition (CHINARE) in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2017 were used for in situ validation studies of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiom...
Physical and optical characteristics of sea ice in the Pacific Arctic Sector during the summer of 2018
Xiaowei Cao, Peng Lu, Ruibo Lei, Qingkai Wang, Zhijun Li
2020, 39(9): 25-37. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1645-6
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The reduction in Arctic sea ice in summer has been reported to have a significant impact on the global climate. In this study, Arctic sea ice/snow at the end of the melting season in 2018 was investigated during CHINARE-2018, in terms of its temperat...
Comparisons of passive microwave remote sensing sea ice concentrations with ship-based visual observations during the CHINARE Arctic summer cruises of 2010–2018
Yuanren Xiu, Zhijun Li, Ruibo Lei, Qingkai Wang, Peng Lu, Matti Leppäranta
2020, 39(9): 38-49. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1646-5
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In order to apply satellite data to guiding navigation in the Arctic more effectively, the sea ice concentrations (SIC) derived from passive microwave (PM) products were compared with ship-based visual observations (OBS) collected during the Chinese ...
The role of bias correction on subseasonal prediction of Arctic sea ice during summer 2018
Jiechen Zhao, Qi Shu, Chunhua Li, Xingren Wu, Zhenya Song, Fangli Qiao
2020, 39(9): 50-59. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1578-0
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Subseasonal Arctic sea ice prediction is highly needed for practical services including icebreakers and commercial ships, while limited by the capability of climate models. A bias correction methodology in this study was proposed and performed on raw...
Role of atmospheric factors in forcing Arctic sea ice variability
Yu Liang, Haibo Bi, Yunhe Wang, Zehua Zhang, Haijun Huang
2020, 39(9): 60-72. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1629-6
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The spatial structure of the Arctic sea ice concentration (SIC) variability and the connection to atmospheric as well as radiative forcing during winter and summer for the 1979–2017 period are investigated. The interannual variability with different ...
Electrolytic enrichment method for tritium determination in the Arctic Ocean using liquid scintillation counter
Feng Lin, Tao Yu, Wen Yu, Jialin Ni, Li Lin
2020, 39(9): 73-77. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1647-4
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A method of measuring the tritium in seawater based on electrolytic enrichment and ultra-low background liquid scintillation counting techniques was established. The different factors influencing the detection limit were studied, including the counti...
Biogenic silica concentration as a marine primary productivity proxy in the Holsteinsborg Dyb, West Greenland, during the last millennium
Longbin Sha, Dongling Li, Yanguang Liu, Bin Wu, Yanni Wu, Karen Luise Knudsen, Zhongqiao Li, Hao Xu
2020, 39(9): 78-85. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1648-3
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We analyzed the biogenic silica (BSi) content and produced a diatom-based summer sea-surface temperature (SST) reconstruction for sediment core GC4 from the Holsteinsborg Dyb, West Greenland. Our aim was to reconstruct marine productivity and climati...
Ice sheet controls on fine-grained deposition at the southern Mendeleev Ridge since the penultimate interglacial
Liming Ye, Xiaoguo Yu, Weiyan Zhang, Rong Wang
2020, 39(9): 86-95. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1649-2
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Clay minerals deposited at the southern Mendeleev Ridge in the Arctic Ocean have a unique provenance, which can be used to reconstruct changes in the local sedimentary environment. We show that sediments in core ARC7-E23 record high-frequency changes...
Sources of particulate organic matter in the Chukchi and Siberian shelves: clues from carbon and nitrogen isotopes
Renming Jia, Xinyue Mu, Min Chen, Jing Zhu, Bo Wang, Xiaopeng Li, A S Astakhov, Minfang Zheng, Yusheng Qiu
2020, 39(9): 96-108. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1650-9
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The stable isotopic composition (δ13C and δ15N) and carbon/nitrogen ratio (C/N) of particulate organic matter (POM) in the Chukchi and East Siberian shelves from July to September, 2016 were measured to evaluate the spatial variability and origin of ...
Vertical distribution of nutrient tracers in the western Arctic Ocean and its relationship to water structure and biogeochemical processes
Yanpei Zhuang, Hongliang Li, Haiyan Jin, Shengquan Gao, Jianfang Chen, Yangjie Li, Youcheng Bai, Zhongqiang Ji
2020, 39(9): 109-114. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1651-8
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During the 3rd Chinese National Arctic Research Expedition cruise in the summer of 2008, nutrients (\begin{document}${\rm{NO}}_3^ - $\end{document}, \begin{document}${\rm{NO}}_2^ - $\end{document}, \begin{document}${\rm{SiO}}_3^ {2-}\! $\end{document...
Feasibility study of miniature near-infrared spectrometer for the measurement of solar irradiance within Arctic snow-cover sea ice
Liwen Nan, Xiaoping Wang, Hangzhou Wang, Hongliang Zhou, Ying Chen
2020, 39(9): 115-124. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1632-y
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The extremely low temperature, high humidity and limited power supply pose considerable challenges when using spectrometers within the Arctic sea ice. The feasibility of using a miniature low-power near-infrared spectrometer module to measure solar r...
Under-ice ambient noise in the Arctic Ocean: observations at the long-term ice station
Xiao Han, Jingwei Yin, Yanming Yang, Hongtao Wen, Longxiang Guo
2020, 39(9): 125-132. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1652-7
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Under-ice ambient noise in the Arctic Ocean is studied using the data recorded by autonomous hydrophones at the long-term ice station during the 9th Chinese National Arctic Research Expedition. Time-frequency analysis of two 7-s-long ice-induced nois...
An improved least mean square/fourth direct adaptive equalizer for under-water acoustic communications in the Arctic
Yanan Tian, Xiao Han, Jingwei Yin, Hongxia Chen, Qingyu Liu
2020, 39(9): 133-139. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1653-6
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An improved least mean square/fourth direct adaptive equalizer (LMS/F-DAE) is proposed in this paper for underwater acoustic communication in the Arctic. It is able to process complex-valued baseband signals and has better equalization performance th...
A variational successive corrections approach for the sea ice concentration analysis
Xuefeng Zhang, Lu Yang, Hongli Fu, Dong Li, Zheqi Shen, Lianxin Zhang, Xuhui Hu
2020, 39(9): 140-154. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1654-5
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The sea ice concentration observation from satellite remote sensing includes the spatial multi-scale information. However, traditional data assimilation methods cannot better extract the valuable information due to the complicated variability of the ...