D. Quadfasel et al., A SHIP OF OPPORTUNITY SECTION TO THE NORTH-POLE - UPPER OCEAN TEMPERATURE OBSERVATIONS, Deep-sea research. Part 1. Oceanographic research papers, 40(4), 1993, pp. 777-789
During August 1990 XBT temperature profiles were collected in the uppe
r 500 m of the water column along three sections in the Barents, Kara
and Laptev Seas and two across the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean.
The shelf sections showed at several locations winter bottom water wi
th temperatures near the freezing point. The subsurface boundary curre
nt along the continental slope in the Eurasian Basin, consisting of wa
rm Atlantic Water, was unusually warm when compared to climatological
and recent synoptic data. This warming in 1990 may be linked to strong
interannual temperature fluctuations of the inflowing Atlantic Water
in Fram Strait. A second topographically steered flow above the Arctic
Mid Ocean Ridge was detected by tracing fossil intrusive structures c
reated in the Laptev Sea and modified by double diffusive fluxes.