Articles | Volume 11, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1767-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1767-2017
Research article
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26 Jul 2017
Research article |  | 26 Jul 2017

Arctic Ocean surface geostrophic circulation 2003–2014

Thomas W. K. Armitage, Sheldon Bacon, Andy L. Ridout, Alek A. Petty, Steven Wolbach, and Michel Tsamados

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Monthly mean Dynamic Ocean Topography (DOT) and geostrophic currents over the Canada Basin, from 2003 to 2014 A. A. Petty, T. W. K. Armitage https://doi.org/10.5446/31305

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We present a new 12-year record of geostrophic currents at monthly resolution in the ice-covered and ice-free Arctic Ocean and characterise their seasonal to decadal variability. We also present seasonal climatologies of eddy kinetic energy, and examine the changing location of the Beaufort Gyre. Geostrophic current variability highlights the complex interplay between seasonally varying forcing and sea ice conditions, changing ice–ocean coupling and increasing ocean surface stress in the 2000s.