Exchanges of Freshwater through the Shallow Straits of the North American Arctic
Exchanges of Freshwater through the Shallow Straits of the North American Arctic
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通过北美北极浅水海峡的淡水交换
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2000
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H. Melling
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H. Melling
北美北极的浅水海峡包括连接太平洋和北冰洋的白令海峡，以及连接北冰洋和大西洋的加拿大北极群岛的无数海峡。淡水净通量通过这些海峡（加上弗拉姆海峡）从北太平洋进入北大西洋，从而稳定了两大洋盆之间降水减去蒸发的全球失衡[0, 2]。与此同时，北极淡水通过弗拉姆海峡流入格陵兰海以及通过加拿大北极群岛流入拉布拉多海的波动流量可能会控制这些地区深海对流的发生[3,4,5,6]。由于这些原因，通过北美北极浅水海峡的淡水通量在全球气候系统中非常重要。
The shallow straits of the North American Arctic include Bering Strait, which connects the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean, and the myriad channels of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, which connect the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic. A net flux of freshwater passes from the North Pacific into the North Atlantic via these straits (plus Fram Strait), and thereby stabilizes a global imbalance in precipitation less evaporation between the two major ocean basins [0, 2]. At the same time, the fluctuating outflows of fresh Arctic waters into the Greenland Sea, via Fram Strait, and into the Labrador Sea, via the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, may control the occurrence of deep ocean convection in these areas [3, 4, 5, 6]. For these reasons, the freshwater fluxes through the shallow straits of the North American Arctic are important within the global climate system.