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Physical Oceanography,Marine Meteorology and Marine Physics
Arctic sea ice in CMIP5 climate model projections and their seasonal variability
HUANG Fei, ZHOU Xiao, WANG Hong
2017, 36(8): 1-8. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-1029-8
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This paper is focused on the seasonality change of Arctic sea ice extent (SIE) from 1979 to 2100 using newly available simulations from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5). A new approach to compare the simulation metric of Arct...
Variation of sea ice extent in different regions of the Arctic Ocean
CHEN Ping, ZHAO Jinping
2017, 36(8): 9-19. doi: 10.1007/s13131-016-0886-x
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Sea ice in the Arctic has been reducing rapidly in the past half century due to global warming. This study analyzes the variations of sea ice extent in the entire Arctic Ocean and its sub regions. The results indicate that sea ice extent reduction du...
Slowdown of sea surface height rises in the Nordic seas and related mechanisms
SHI Wenqi, ZHAO Jinping, LIAN Xihu, WANG Xiaoyu, CHEN Weibin
2017, 36(8): 20-33. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-1027-x
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A slowdown of sea surface height (SSH) rise occurred in the Nordic (GIN) seas around 2004. In this study, SSH satellite data and constructed steric height data for the decades before and after 2004 (i.e., May 1994 to April 2014) were used for compara...
The role of diminishing Arctic sea ice in increased winter snowfall over northern high-latitude continents in a warming environment
SONG Mirong, LIU Jiping
2017, 36(8): 34-41. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-1021-3
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Large parts of North America, Europe, Siberia, and East Asia have experienced cold snaps and heavy snowfalls for the past few winters, which have been linked to rapid decline of Arctic sea ice. Although the role of reduction in Arctic sea ice in rece...
Spatio-temporal variations of Arctic amplification and their linkage with the Arctic oscillation
WANG Yanshuo, HUANG Fei, FAN Tingting
2017, 36(8): 42-51. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-1025-z
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The Arctic near-surface air temperatures are increasing more than twice as fast as the global average-a feature known as Arctic amplification (AA). A modified AA index is constructed in this paper to emphasize the contrast of warming rate between pol...
Sensitivity and nonlinearity of Eurasian winter temperature response to recent Arctic sea ice loss
SUI Cuijuan, ZHANG Zhanhai, YU Lejiang, LI Yi, SONG Mirong
2017, 36(8): 52-58. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-1018-y
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The recent decline in the Arctic sea ice has coincided with more cold winters in Eurasia. It has been hypothesized that the Arctic sea ice loss is causing more mid-latitude cold extremes and cold winters, yet there is lack of consensus in modeling st...
Effect of increasing Arctic river runoff on the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation:a model study
SHU Qi, QIAO Fangli, SONG Zhenya, XIAO Bin
2017, 36(8): 59-65. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-1009-z
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An increasing amount of freshwater has been observed to enter the Arctic Ocean from the six largest Eurasian rivers over the past several decades. The increasing trend is projected to continue in the twenty-first century according to Coupled Model In...
Observed and modelled snow and ice thickness in the Arctic Ocean with CHINARE buoy data
TIAN Zhongxiang, CHENG Bin, ZHAO Jiechen, VIHMA Timo, ZHANG Wenliang, LI Zhijun, ZHANG Zhanhai
2017, 36(8): 66-75. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-1020-4
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Sea ice and the snow pack on top of it were investigated using Chinese National Arctic Research Expedition (CHINARE) buoy data. Two polar hydrometeorological drifters, known as Zeno® ice stations, were deployed during CHINARE 2003. A new type of high...
Sea ice extent retrieval with HY-2A scatterometer data and its assessment
SHI Lijian, LI Mingming, ZHAO Chaofang, WANG Zhixiong, SHI Yingni, ZOU Juhong, ZENG Tao
2017, 36(8): 76-83. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-1022-2
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A sea ice extent retrieval algorithm over the polar area based on scatterometer data of HY-2A satellite has been established. Four parameters are used for distinguishing between sea ice and ocean with Fisher's linear discriminant analysis method. The...
Thermodynamic model of melt pond and its application during summer of 2010 in the central Arctic Ocean
ZHANG Shugang, BIAN Lingen, ZHAO Jinping, LI Min, CHEN Shizhe, JIAO Yutian, CHEN Ping
2017, 36(8): 84-93. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-1019-x
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A one-dimensional thermodynamic model of melt pond is established in this paper. The observation data measured in the summer of 2010 by the Chinese National Arctic Research Expedition (CHINARE-2010) are used to partially parameterize equations and to...
Marine Chemistry
Evaluation of the net CO2 uptake in the Canada Basin in the summer of 2008
SUN Heng, GAO Zhongyong, LU Peng, XIU Peng, CHEN Liqi
2017, 36(8): 94-100. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-1028-9
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The third Chinese National Arctic Research Expedition (CHINARE) was conducted in the summer of 2008. During the survey, the surface seawater partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) was measured, and sea water samples were collected for CO2 measurement in the ...
Accumulation of freshwater in the permanent ice zone of the Canada Basin during summer 2008
TONG Jinlu, CHEN Min, YANG Weifeng, ZHANG Run, PAN Hong, ZHENG Minfang, QIU Yusheng, HU Wangjiang, ZENG Jian
2017, 36(8): 101-108. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-1023-1
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A combination of δ18O and salinity data was employed to explore the freshwater balance in the Canada Basin in summer 2008. The Arctic river water and Pacific river water were quantitatively distinguished by using different saline end-members. The fra...
Response of phytoplankton community to different water types in the western Arctic Ocean surface water based on pigment analysis in summer 2008
JIN Haiyan, ZHUANG Yanpei, LI Hongliang, CHEN Jianfang, GAO Shengquan, JI Zhongqiang, ZHANG Yang
2017, 36(8): 109-121. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-1033-z
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Nutrients and photosynthesis pigments were investigated in the western Arctic Ocean during the 3rd Chinese Arctic Research Expedition Cruise in summer 2008. The study area was divided into five provinces using the K-means clustering method based on t...
Composition of algal pigments in surface freshen layer after ice melt in the central Arctic
ZHUANG Yanpei, JIN Haiyan, GU Fan, ZHANG Yang, BAI Youcheng, JI Zhongqiang, LU Yong, CHEN Jianfang
2017, 36(8): 122-130. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-1024-0
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Seasonal meltwater input creates a thin freshen layer in surface seawater under ice, which largely shifts the algae assemblages. Our recent observation of photosynthetic pigments in the high Arctic showed that ice bottom and 5 m of seawater under ice...
Marine Geology
Variations in organic carbon loading of surface sediments from the shelf to the slope of the Chukchi Sea, Arctic Ocean
LI Zhongqiao, WANG Xinyi, JIN Haiyan, JI Zhongqiang, BAI Youcheng
2017, 36(8): 131-136. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-1026-y
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The content of organic carbon (OC) normalized to the specific surface area (SSA) of sediment is widely used to trace variations in OC loading (OC/SSA). This study presents observations of OC/SSA of surface sediments collected in the Chukchi Sea, a ty...
Paleoenvironmental implications of Holocene long-chain n-alkanes on the northern Bering Sea Slope
ZHANG Haifeng, WANG Rujian, XIAO Wenshen
2017, 36(8): 137-145. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-1032-0
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The records of high-resolution terrestrial biological markers (biomarkers) from Core B2-9 from the northern Bering Sea Slope over the last 9.6 ka BP were presented in the study. Variations in input of terrestrial long-chain n-alkanes (referred to as ...
Marine Biology
Bacterial and archaeal community structure of pan-Arctic Ocean sediments revealed by pyrosequencing
LIN Xuezheng, ZHANG Liang, LIU Yanguang, LI Yang
2017, 36(8): 146-152. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-1030-2
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This study was to investigate bacterial and archaeal community structure of pan-Arctic Ocean sediments by pyrosequencing. In total, investigation of three marine sediments revealed 15 002 bacterial and 4 362 archaeal operational taxonomic units (OTUs...
Factors dominating bacterioplankton abundance and production in the Nordic seas and the Chukchi Sea in summer 2012
GAO Yuan, HE Jianfeng, CHEN Min, LIN Ling, ZHANG Fang
2017, 36(8): 153-162. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-1031-1
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Abundance and production of bacterioplankton were measured in the Nordic seas and Chukchi Sea during the 5th Chinese Arctic Research Expedition in summer 2012. The results showed that average bacterial abundances ranged from 3.31×1011 cells/m3 to 2.2...