北冰洋-欧亚大陆-太平洋地学断面东南段岩石圈有效弹性厚度

大陆岩石圈有效弹性厚度（Te）是表示岩石圈强度的参数，计算该参数对研究岩石圈大规模构造，分析大陆板块内的均衡补偿机制有一定意义。利用Forsyth提出的相关技术计算的北冰洋－欧亚大陆－太平洋地学断面东南段自黑水到泉州的Te值，并分析了重力和地形波长的相关性特征，初步认为：计算Te值所选的每个数据块在短波长（6.6-100km)内岩石圈板块的强度足以平衡地形负载，重力和地形不相关；在长波长（100－250km)内，地形及地下负载由弯曲模型补偿，岩石圈板块在地形及地下负载作用下而挠曲。断面通过地段具有较低热流密度值的陆核有较高的Te值，具有较高热流密度值的宁化，大田地区有较低的Te值，反映了较高的热流密度值对应较低的Te值，较低的热流密度值对应较高Te 值的关系，Te可分为南东低值段和北西高值段，地壳厚度大体上与Te值呈正相关关系。     

Ice-rafted detritus events in the Arctic during the last glacial interval, and the timing of the Innuitian and Laurentide ice sheet calving events

Ice-rafted detritus (IRD) layers in the Arctic Ocean not only indicate the source of this detrital sediment, but give insights into the ice drift and ice sheet history. Detrital sand-sized Fe oxide mineral grains that are matched to precise sources using the microprobe chemical fingerprint of each grain, along with elevated coarse IRD abundance and radiocarbon ages, are used to define IRD peaks from the Innuitian and Arctic portions of the Laurentide ice sheets. Because grains from these two areas can be entrained by sea ice from the shelves just offshore of the calving areas, peaks in these grains must be correlated to coarse IRD to identify iceberg calving events, and to distinguish them from sea-ice rafting. The sequence of IRD peaks deposited by icebergs from these two ice sheets indicate that both ice sheets calved bergs at accelerated numbers, six or seven times, from 11 to 36 Kya. The relatively short times between most of these IRD events suggest that the ice sheets did not completely collapse with each IRD event, except the last event. Although there is some indication that one ice sheet may have begun calving bergs before the other, the resolution of the Arctic cores does not allow definitive determination of this. This emphasizes the need for higher resolution cores from the central Arctic, as well as from near the terminus of large Pleistocene ice sheets. Sea-ice rafting occurs throughout the last glacial stage, even during some glacial IRD events, as indicated by Fe grains from non-glacial sources.     

北冰洋阿尔法脊晚第四纪沉积有机质的来源变化及其古环境意义

为探讨晚第四纪有机碳埋藏情况变化与海冰覆盖和环流等变化之间的关系,分析了北冰洋阿尔法脊08B85-D孔沉积物的Mn和Ca含量、粒度组成、有机碳含量和有机碳δ13C组成。结果表明有机碳含量并不具备冰期-间冰期旋回性,有机碳来源具有4种不同模式,海冰覆盖程度和波弗特环流的强度共同决定了阿尔法脊处有机碳来源的构成,在MIS7内若干时段海冰覆盖极少,极盛的波弗特环流可将陆源有机质直接输送至阿尔法脊处,使沉积有机质中陆地来源占主导,形成了具有地层对比意义的独特信号。在MIS6-MIS1,08B85-D孔有机碳始终以海洋源贡献占主导,与海冰覆盖程度维持在较高水平,限制了陆源有机碳的输送有关,特别是在MIS6和MIS4-MIS3时,海冰很盛,波弗特环流有可能消亡。     

High Arctic sea ice conditions influence marine birds wintering in Low Arctic regions

Ocean climate change is having profound biological effects in polar regions. Such change can also have far-reaching downstream effects in sub-polar regions. This study documents an environmental relationship between High Arctic sea ice changes and mortality events of marine birds in Low Arctic coastal regions. During April 2007 and March 2009, hundreds of beached seabird carcasses and moribund seabirds were found along the east and northeast coasts of Newfoundland, Canada. These seabird “wrecks” (i.e. dead birds on beaches) coincided with a period of strong, persistent onshore winds and heavily-accumulated sea ice that blocked bays and trapped seabirds near beaches. Ninety-two percent of wreck seabirds were Thick-billed Murres (Uria lomvia). Body condition and demographic patterns of wreck murres were compared to Thick-billed Murres shot in the Newfoundland murre hunt. Average body and pectoral masses of wreck carcasses were 34% and 40% lighter (respectively) than shot murres, indicating that wreck birds had starved. The acute nature of each wreck suggested that starvation and associated hypothermia occurred within 2–3 days. In 2007, first-winter murres (77%) dominated the wreck. In 2009, there were more adults (78%), mostly females (66%). These results suggest that spatial and temporal segregation in ages and sexes can play a role in differential survival when stochastic weather conditions affect discrete areas where these groups aggregate. In wreck years, southward movement of Arctic sea ice to Low Arctic latitudes was later and blocked bays longer than in most other years. These inshore conditions corresponded with recent climate-driven changes in High Arctic ice break-up and ice extent; coupled with local weather conditions, these ice conditions appeared to be the key environmental features that precipitated the ice-associated seabird wrecks in the Low Arctic region.     

Characterization of sea ice and its snow cover in the Arctic Pacific sector during the summer of 2016

A comprehensive analysis of sea ice and its snow cover during the summer in the Arctic Pacific sector was conducted using the observations recorded during the 7th Chinese National Arctic Research Expedition(CHIANRE-2016) and the satellite-derived parameters of the melt pond fraction(MPF) and snow grain size(SGS)from MODIS data. The results show that there were many low-concentration ice areas in the south of 78°N, while the ice concentration and thickness increased significantly with the latitud...     

Quantitative analysis of Arctic ice flow acceleration with increasing temperature

This study explores the ice flow acceleration(21.1%) of Pedersenbreen during 2016–2017 after the extremely warm winter throughout the whole Arctic in 2015/2016 using in situ data and quantitatively analyses the factors contributing to this acceleration. Several data sets, including 2008–2018 air temperature data from Ny-?lesund,ten-year in situ GPS measurements and Elmer/Ice ice flow modelling under different ice temperature scenarios,suggest that the following factors contributed to the ice flo...     

Modeling Arctic Boundary Layer Cloud Streets at Grey-zone Resolutions

To better understand how model resolution affects the formation of Arctic boundary layer clouds, we investigated the influence of grid spacing on simulating cloud streets that occurred near Utqia?vik(formerly Barrow), Alaska, on 2 May2013 and were observed by MODIS(the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer). The Weather Research and Forecasting model was used to simulate the clouds using nested domains with increasingly fine resolution ranging from a horizontal grid spacing of 27 km in t...