Arctic sea ice in transformation: A review of recent observed changes and impacts on biology and human activity

WN Meier, GK Hovelsrud, BEH Van Oort… - Reviews of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Sea ice in the Arctic is one of the most rapidly changing components of the global climate
system. Over the past few decades, summer areal extent has declined over 30%, and all …

[HTML][HTML] Arctic Ocean glacial history

M Jakobsson, K Andreassen, LR Bjarnadóttir… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
While there are numerous hypotheses concerning glacial–interglacial environmental and
climatic regime shifts in the Arctic Ocean, a holistic view on the Northern Hemisphere's late …

Footprints of climate change in the Arctic marine ecosystem

P Wassmann, CM Duarte, S Agusti… - Global change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we review evidence of how climate change has already resulted in clearly
discernable changes in marine Arctic ecosystems. After defining the term 'footprint'and …

Temperature and precipitation history of the Arctic

GH Miller, J Brigham-Grette, RB Alley… - Quaternary Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
As the planet cooled from peak warmth in the early Cenozoic, extensive Northern
Hemisphere ice sheets developed by 2.6 Ma ago, leading to changes in the circulation of …

Alkane and PAH biomarkers as tracers of terrigenous organic carbon in Arctic Ocean sediments

MB Yunker, RW Macdonald, LR Snowdon… - Organic …, 2011 - Elsevier
We present the first sedimentary biomarker study encompassing the entire Arctic Ocean. A
large data set of organic markers for terrigenous, petroleum and combustion inputs [alkanes …

Towards a better (litho-) stratigraphy and reconstruction of Quaternary paleoenvironment in the Amerasian Basin (Arctic Ocean)

R Stein, J Matthiessen, F Niessen, A Krylov, S Nam… - Polarforschung, 2010 - epic.awi.de
New sediment cores were recovered along two transects from the Canada Basin across the
central Mendeleev Ridge towards the Makarov Basin and the Lomonosov Ridge in the …

Sediment record from the western Arctic Ocean with an improved Late Quaternary age resolution: HOTRAX core HLY0503-8JPC, Mendeleev Ridge

RE Adler, L Polyak, JD Ortiz, DS Kaufman… - Global and Planetary …, 2009 - Elsevier
Sediment core HLY0503-8JPC raised by the HOTRAX'05 expedition from the Mendeleev
Ridge was analyzed for multiple lithological, paleontological, and stable-isotopic proxies to …

Cenozoic ice‐rafting history of the central Arctic Ocean: Terrigenous sands on the Lomonosov Ridge

K St. John - Paleoceanography, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The Cenozoic ice‐rafted debris (IRD) history of the central Arctic is reconstructed utilizing the
terrigenous coarse sand fraction in IODP 302 cores from 0 to 273 meters composite depth …

The role of currents and sea ice in both slowly deposited central Arctic and rapidly deposited Chukchi–Alaskan margin sediments

DA Darby, J Ortiz, L Polyak, S Lund… - Global and Planetary …, 2009 - Elsevier
A study of three long cores from the outer shelf and continental slope north of Alaska in the
Arctic Ocean indicate that localized drift deposits occur here with sedimentation rates of …

Modern dirty sea ice characteristics and sources: The role of anchor ice

DA Darby, WB Myers, M Jakobsson… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Extensive dirty ice patches with up to 7 kg m− 2 sediment concentrations in layers of up to 10
cm thickness were encountered in 2005 and 2007 in numerous areas across the central …