#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Arctic Floating University has revealed the secret of warm currents in the Arctic Ocean – this unique phenomenon is called Atlantification, and it began at the beginning of the 20th century.
As the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper writes with reference to scientists, the North Atlantic Current (an extension of the warm Gulf stream) penetrates the Arctic ocean in two ways: through the Barents sea and through the north of the Spitsbergen archipelago. These currents join east of the Franz Josef Land archipelago and penetrate directly into the center of the Arctic ocean.
Scientists from the Arctic Floating University have been studying this process since 2012: they measure the temperature, salinity, and turbidity of the water at different depths.
Recent studies have shown the presence of Atlantic waters with a temperature of +0.7 degrees in the section from the Admiralty peninsula to Victoria island. In the Franz-Victoria trench, the Fram branch was recorded with a temperature of -0.2 degrees – this is 0.4 degrees lower than the 2013 figures.
Warm waters affect both the temperature regime of the Arctic and the ecosystem. The volume of marine biomass depends on warm currents: phytoplankton, zooplankton and, accordingly, fish mass. Some seabirds have begun to actively move east and develop new territories.
Earlier, researchers found that winter temperatures in the Arctic increased since 2005. July 2023 was the hottest month in the Arctic within 120 000 years.
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Text: Anzhelika Stepanova, Photo: Nikolay Shchipko
