Variability of Thermohaline Circulation and Freshwater Storage in the Arctic Ocean Principal Investigator Andrey Proshutinsky Woods Hole Oceanographic Woods Hole, MA 02543 Phone: 508-289-2796 FAX: 508-457-2181 email: aproshutinsky@whoi.edu

Project Description First Year Project Results Publications and Talks References Digital Data Access This research has been supported by a grant from NOAA. NOAA’s project manager: John A. Calder, Director Arctic Research Office NOAA Oceanic and Atmospheric Research R/AR Silver Spring, MD 20910 John.Calder@noaa.gov References Aagaard, K., and E. C. Carmack, The role of sea ice and fresh water in the Arctic circulation, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 14,485-14,498, 1989. Blumberg, A.F. and G.L. Mellor, A description of a three-dimensional coastal ocean circulation model, In: Three-Dimensional Coastal Ocean Models, Coastal and Estuarine Sciences, 4, N.S. Heaps, ed., American Geophysical Union, 1-16, 1987. Delworth, T., S. Manabe and R. J. Stouffer, Multidecadal climate variability in the Greenland Sea and surrounding regions: a coupled model simulation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 257-260, 1997. EWG (Environmental Working Group), Joint U.S.-Russian Atlas of the Arctic Ocean (CD-ROM). National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, Colorado, 1997,1998. Hilmer, M. and P. Lemke, On the decrease of Arctic sea ice volume, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27 (22), 3751-3754, 2001. Johnson, M. A., A. Y. Proshutinsky, and I. V. Polyakov, Atmospheric pattern forcing two regimes of Arctic circulation: a return to anticyclonic conditions?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 26(11), 1621-1624, 1999. Lewis, E.L. (ed.), The freshwater budget of the Arctic Ocean, NATO Science Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 623 p., 2000. McLaughlin, F., E. Carmack, R.W. MacDonald, A. J. Weaver and J. Smith, The Canada Basin 1989-1995: Upstream events and far-field effects of the Barents Sea, J. Geophys. Res., 2001 (accepted) Mysak, L. A., and S. A. Venegas, Decadal climate oscillations in the Arctic: A new feedback loop for atmosphere--ice--ocean interactions, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25(19), 3607--3610, 1998. Proshutinsky, A. Y. and M. A. Johnson, Two circulation regimes of the wind-driven Arctic Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 12,493-12,514, 1997. Proshutinsky, A., I.V. Polyakov and M.A. Johnson, Climate states and variability of Arctic ice and water dynamics during 1946-1997, Polar Research, 18(2), 135-142, 1999. Steele, M., D. Thomas, D. Rothrock and S. Martin, A simple model study of the Arctic Ocean freshwater balance, 1979--1985, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 20,833-20,848, 1996. Tremblay, L.-B., and L. A. Mysak, On the origin and evolution of sea-ice anomalies in the Beaufort-Chukchi Sea, Climate Dynamics, 14, 451-460, 1998.