Robin D. Muench

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed experiments and models describing polynyas and leads in the polar oceans and showed that large sensible heat fluxes, together with evaporation and longwave radiation from a very small percentage of open water and thin ice dominate regional heat budgets.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Fram Strait branch was observed as a narrow core within tens of kilometers of the Barents Sea shelf edge, where several patches of cold, low-salinity water spread across the slope down to about 500 m depth.

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: 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: A 1-year time series of bottom-water current and hydrographic properties obtained on the slope near the 1000 m isobath indicates episodic pulses of Shelf Water export through Drygalski Trough as discussed by the authors.