Journal
ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE
Volume 153, Issue -, Pages 10-17Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2014.11.027
Keywords
fjord dynamics; polynyas; fast ice; mooring systems; CTD observations
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- Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) program
- Canada Research Chair (CRC) program
- Canada Foundation of Innovation (CFI)
- National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) [RGPIN-2014-03606]
- Manitoba Research and Innovation Fund
- University of Manitoba
- Aarhus University
- Greenland Institute of Natural Resources
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Polynyas are an important yet poorly understood phenomena of high latitude oceans. A storm event during late December 2013 with down-fjord winds of up to 25 m/s forced the collapse of the landfast ice over the Young Sound (YS) fjord outlet in northeast Greenland. This storm created a coastal polynya that was further maintained by several consecutive wind events until early March 2014. During the polynya period, three landfast ice-tethered oceanographic moorings recorded an enhanced surface layer (similar to 0-40 m) transport towards the mouth of YS and a layer below (similar to 40-140 m) flowing into the fjord and supplying the interior with cool and saline water from the polynya. Subsequent CTD transects in May 2014 reveal that this lower layer contained polynya originated cool, saline and oxygen enriched water with oxygen concentrations significantly exceeding values from the previous summer. Salt balance bulk estimates show that the polynya generated a sufficient amount of brine to ventilate the fjord interior. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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