Heat, salt, and volume transports in the eastern Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean from 2 years of mooring observationsстатья
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Аннотация:This study discusses along-slope volume, heat, and salt transports derived from observations collected in 2013–15 using a cross-slope array of six moorings ranging from 250 m to 3900 m in the eastern Eurasian Basin (EB) of the Arctic Ocean. These observations demonstrate that in the upper 780 m layer, the along-slope boundary current advected, on average, 5.1 ± 0.1 Sv of water, predominantly in the eastward (shallow-to-right) direction. Monthly net volume transports across the Laptev Sea slope vary widely, from ~0.3 ± 0.8 in April 2014 to ~9.9 ± 0.8 Sv in June 2014. 3.1 ± 0.1 Sv (or 60 %) of the net transport was associated with warm and salty intermediate-depth Atlantic Water (AW). Calculated heat transport for 2013 15 (relative to -1.8 °C) was 46.0 ± 1.7 TW, and net salt transport (relative to zero salinity) was 172 ± 6 Mkg/s. Estimates for AW heat and salt transports were 32.7 ± 1.3 TW (71 % of net heat transport) and 112 ± 4 Mkg/s (65 % of net salt transport). The variability of currents explains ~90 % of the variability of the heat and salt transports. The remaining ~10 % is controlled by temperature and salinity anomalies together with temporal variability of the AW layer thickness. The annual mean volume transports decreased by 25% from 5.8 ± 0.2 Sv in 2013–14 to 4.4 ± 0.2 Sv in 2014–15 suggesting that changes of the transports at interannual and longer time scales in the eastern EB may be significant.