Variation of freshwater components in the Canada Basin during 1967-2010

PAN Hong; CHEN Min; TONG Jinlu; QIU Yusheng; ZHENG Minfang; CAO Jianping

doi:10.1007/s13131-014-0487-5

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PAN Hong, CHEN Min, TONG Jinlu, QIU Yusheng, ZHENG Minfang, CAO Jianping. Variation of freshwater components in the Canada Basin during 1967-2010[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2014, 33(6): 40-45. doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0487-5

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PAN Hong, CHEN Min, TONG Jinlu, QIU Yusheng, ZHENG Minfang, CAO Jianping. Variation of freshwater components in the Canada Basin during 1967-2010[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2014, 33(6): 40-45. doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0487-5

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Variation of freshwater components in the Canada Basin during 1967-2010

doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0487-5

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College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China;State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China

Received Date: 2013-01-28
Rev Recd Date: 2013-04-13

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Abstract

As a conservative tracer, oxygen isotopes in seawater are widely used for water mass analysis, along with temperature and salinity. In this study, seawater oxygen-18 datasets in the Canada Basin during 1967-2010 were obtained from the four cruises of the Chinese National Arctic Research Expedition (1999, 2003, 2008, and 2010) and the NASA database. Fractions of sea ice meltwater and river runoff were determined from the salinity-δ¹⁸O system. Our results showed that the river runoff decreased from the south to the north in the Canada Basin. The enhanced amount of river runoff observed in the southern Canada Basin may originate from the Mackenzie River, transported by the Beaufort Gyre. The river runoff component showed maximum fractions during 1967-1969, 1978-1979, 1984-1985, 1993-1994, and 2008-2010, indicating the refresh time of the river runoff was 5.0-16.0 a in the Canada Basin. The temporal variation of the river runoff was related to the change of the Arctic Oscillation (AO) index, suggesting the freshwater stored in the Canada Basin was affected by surface sea ice drift and water mass movement driven by atmospheric circulation.
- Canada Basin,
- freshwater,
- river runoff,
- sea ice meltwater,
- oxygen isotope

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