Beaufort Gyre

First, the Beaufort Gyre is a clockwise circulation (looking from above the North Pole) in the Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska.

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First, the Beaufort Gyre is a clockwise circulation (looking from above the North Pole) in the Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska.

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This is especially true for the Beaufort Gyre, which represents the largest and most variable reservoir of freshwater storage in the marine Arctic.

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The Beaufort Gyre is very likely to weaken and retreat into Canada Basin, following the "cyclonic mode" discussed by Proshutinsky and Johnson [20] and Polyakov and Johnson [21].

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During the 1990s, the source of the transpolar drift moved eastward into the East Siberian Sea and the Beaufort Gyre shrank eastward into the Beaufort Sea [104].

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As the Atlantic-derived waters increased their dominance in the Arctic Ocean, there was an observed shrinking of the Beaufort Gyre and a weakening and eastward deflection of the Transpolar Drift [18].

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In turn, changes in the Beaufort Gyre are very likely to affect the storage and release of freshwater in Canada Basin [22].

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General sea-ice motion in the Arctic Ocean is organized by the Transpolar Drift in the Eurasian Basin and by the Beaufort Gyre in Canada Basin (Fig. 9.1).

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It is not clear from the IABP data how much sea ice from the Russian shelves might be transported into the Canadian Archipelago or the Beaufort Gyre under AO+ conditions, but models [24] suggest that such transport may be important at times.

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Within the Arctic Ocean the dominant features of the surface circulation are the clockwise Beaufort Gyre, extending over the Canadian Basin, and the Transpolar Drift that flows from the Siberian coast out through Fram Strait.

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