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Proshutinsky et al. 2002
Proshutinsky, A., Bourke, R.H. and McLaughlin, F.A. (2002). The role of the Beaufort Gyre in Arctic climate variability: Seasonal to decadal climate scales. Geophysical Research Letters 29: doi: 10.1029/2002GL015847. issn: 0094-8276.

This paper presents a new hypothesis along with supporting evidence that the Beaufort Gyre (BG) plays a significant role in regulating the arctic climate variability. We propose and demonstrate that the BG accumulates a significant amount of fresh water (FW) during one climate regime (anticyclonic) and releases this water to the North Atlantic (NA) during another climate regime (cyclonic). This hypothesis can explain the origin of the salinity anomaly (SA) periodically found in the NA as well as its role in the decadal variability in the Arctic region.

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Keywords
Oceanography, General, Arctic and Antarctic oceanography, Oceanography, General, Climate and interannual variability, Oceanography, General, Ocean prediction, Oceanography, General, Numerical modeling
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Geophysical Research Letters
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