The Arctic Ocean is being overrun by the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean according to a study recently published. Brian Kahn of earther.com explains what is happening.
The seas between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans are a battleground between two opposing bodies of water. And it appears that the Arctic is starting to lose the war. This is happening faster than models projected, and scientists don’t quite know what the long-term impacts will be.
The rapid “Atlantification” of the Arctic Ocean is chronicled in a new Nature Climate Change study published on Monday. The study focuses on the Barents Sea, which sits just above Scandinavia and is what the researchers refer to as an “Arctic warming hotspot” and “the doorstep to the Arctic Ocean.”
That step is being overrun by warmer waters from the Atlantic. To understand how, you have to picture the structure of the sea as a layer cake. Read More
