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Relaxation of central Arctic Ocean hydrography to pre‐1990s climatology
Author(s) -
Morison J.,
Steele M.,
Kikuchi T.,
Falkner K.,
Smethie W.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2006gl026826
Subject(s) - hydrography , climatology , the arctic , arctic , oceanography , salinity , temperature salinity diagrams , environmental science , geology
Upper ocean hydrography in the central Arctic Ocean has relaxed since 2000 to near‐climatological conditions that pertained before the dramatic changes of the 1990s. The behavior of the anomalies of temperature and salinity in the central Arctic Ocean follow a first‐order linear response to the AO with time constant of 5 years and a delay of 3 years.