Göran Björk

TL;DR: The Swedish icebreaker Oden conducted an extensive oceanographic survey of the East Greenland Current from north of Fram Strait to south of Denmark Strait as a part of the Arctic Ocean 2002 programme to study the Nordic Seas, while RV Knorr of Woods Hole worked in the ice-free parts.

TL;DR: In this paper, a year-long time series of temperature, salinity and current velocity from three slope sites spanning the junction of the Lomonosov Ridge with the Eurasian continent is used to quantify the water properties, transformations and transport of the boundary current of the Arctic Ocean.

TL;DR: The Oden 91 North Pole expedition obtained Oceanographic measurements on four sections in the Nansen and Amundsen basins of the Eurasian Basin and in the Makarov Basin of the Canadian Basin, thereby proving the feasibility of carrying out a typical Oceanographic program using an icebreaker in the Arctic Ocean as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the waters in the Eurasian Basin are conditioned by the confluence of the boundary flow of warm, saline Fram Strait water and cold low salinity water from the Barents Sea entering through the St. Anna Trough.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the effect of polynya events on the total annual ice production in the Arctic Ocean and show that single polynyas are important for the total ice production, with productions up to 5 m per event or some 50% of the seasonal mean in some areas.