and an updated Arctic Ocean climatology. This work was funded by the FRAM project: www.awi.de/en/expedition/observatories/ocean-fram.html Publication : Behrendt, A., Sumata, H., Rabe, B., and Schauer, U

2017. Figure 1: Mooring sites maintained during 2008-2009. The four major Arctic gateways (Davis, Fram, Bering Straits and BSO) are highlighted by orange circles. Each box shows length of observations [...] Tromsø, Norway and the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany for western and eastern Fram Strait, respectively; the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) in Bergen, Norway for the Barents Sea [...] von Appen; Dr. B. Rabe; Prof. Dr. T. Kanzow; Dr. M. Karcher AWI and Arctic boundary PIs in Davis , Fram, Bering Straits and Barents Sea opening (BSO)

changes in the warm northward flow, we monitor the Atlantic Water in the West Spitsbergen Current in Fram Strait by use of an oceanographic mooring array since 1997. Surface waters are densified through cooling [...] storing) Beaufort Gyre, and the Transpolar Drift, which drives the freshwater towards Greenland and Fram Strait from where it is eventually exported to the subpolar North Atlantic. The Arctic freshwater [...] contributes to a destabilization of the Greenland ice streams. We observed Atlantic water warming in Fram Strait and this water is likely to affect the (presently) stable North East Greenland ice stream (NEGIS)

ed by the land masses of North America, Greenland and… Find out more Arctic Long-term Observatory FRAM 5,000 metres seawater plus ice separate the seafloor from boisterous life in the upper water layers

whales and seals and their underwater acoustic environment in the polar oceans, the Weddell Sea and Fram Strait in particular. To do so, we use long-term (multi-year) visual observations and passive acoustic…

several moorings with physical and biogeochemical sensors distributed over a certain area (e.g. in the Fram Strait or in the Weddell Sea) over a period of several years or even decades. This has been done at

varying resolutions, are not well understood. Emerging research suggests a complex interplay between the Fram Strait Sea Ice Export (FSSIE) and the AMO, pointing to a critical, yet underexplored, feedback mechanism

Barents Sea or Fram Strait. In the eastern Fram Strait, Atlantic Water flows northward in the West Spitsbergen Current between the surface and about 800m depth. Some of this water makes a shortcut and recirculates [...] the western Fram Strait on timescales of several months while the rest enters the Arctic Ocean and follows a cyclonic circulation for years to decades. The AWI long-term observations in Fram Strait have [...] Fram Strait / West Spitsbergen current long-term observations Atlantic Water is the main oceanic source of heat, salt, and nutrients of the Arctic Ocean. It enters the Arctic Ocean through the Barents

ships, e.g. Polarstern and air-supported spring expeditions, autonomous ice-tethered buoy systems like FRAM or MIDO have enabled a nearly year-round, Arctic basin-wide coverage of temperature and salinity profile

@ awi.de Fram Strait / West Spitsbergen Atlantic Water is the main oceanic source of heat, salt, and nutrients of the Arctic Ocean. It enters the Arctic Ocean through the Barents Sea or Fram Strait. In [...] systems in addition to icebreaker-based surveys. Our focus areas are the boundary current from the Fram Strait to the Siberian Arctic and the upper Arctic basin. There is a strong link between the variability [...] (2015)Circulation and transformation of Atlantic water in the Eurasian Basin and the contribution of the Fram Strait inflow branch to the Arctic Ocean heat budget ,Progress in Oceanography, 132 , pp. 128-152