Fig. 1: Arctic model topography and salinity dependence on land fast ice distribution. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 1: Arctic model topography and salinity dependence on land fast ice distribution.

From: Landfast ice in the Kara Sea stabilizes the Arctic halocline and may slow down Atlantification of the Eurasian Basin

Fig. 1

a Arctic topography. VS denotes the Vilkitsky Strait. The blue contour line denotes the (poorly) simulated fast ice extent in the control run (CTRL, without fast ice parameterization). Depth averaged (0–40 m) salinity differences for the mean April of 2006–2015: b between the simulation with all fast ice parameterizations, i.e., with a realistic LFI distribution as indicated by the blue contour line, and the CTRL simulation; c the same as (b), but with the lateral drag parameterization turned off explicitly in the Kara Sea; there is no LFI in the Kara Sea as indicated by the blue contour line; d the same as (b), but without river runoff in the Kara Sea and in CTRL; there is slightly less LFI in the Kara Sea as indicated by the blue contour line.

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