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Discovery and characterization of submarine groundwater discharge in the Siberian Arctic seas : A case study in Buor-Khaya Gulf , Laptev Sea
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| Author | Charkin, Alexander N. Loeff, Michiel M. Rutgers Van Der Shakhova, Natalia E. Örjan Gustafsson Dudarev, Oleg V. Cherepnev, Maxim S. Salyuk, Anatoly Andrey, V. Koshurnikov Spivak, Eduard A. Gunar, Alexey Y. Semiletov, Igor P. |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | It has been suggested that increasing freshwater discharge to the Arctic Ocean may also occur as submarine 20 groundwater discharge (SGD), yet there are no direct observations of this phenomenon in the Arctic shelf seas. This study tests the hypothesis that SGD does exist in the Siberian-Arctic shelf seas but its dynamics may be largely controlled by complicated geocryological conditions such as permafrost. The field-observational approach in the southeast Laptev Sea used a combination of hydrological (temperature, salinity), geological (bottom sediment drilling, geoelectric surveys) and geochemical (Ra, Ra and Rn) techniques. Active SGD was documented in the vicinity 25 of the Lena River delta with two different operational modes. In the first system, groundwater discharges through tectonogenic permafrost talik zones was registered in both wintertime and summertime seasons. The second SGD mechanism was cryogenic squeezing out of brine and water-soluble salts detected on the periphery of ice hummocks in the wintertime season. The proposed mechanisms of groundwater transport and discharge in the arctic land-shelf system is elaborated. Through salinity versus Ra and Ra/Ra diagrams, the three main SGD-influenced water 30 masses were identified and their end-member composition was constrained. Further studies should apply these techniques to a broader scale with the objective to reach an estimate of the relative importance of the SGD transport vector relative to surface freshwater discharge for both the water balance and aquatic components such as dissolved organic carbon, carbon dioxide, methane, and nutrients. 35 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net/tc-2017-33/tc-2017-33.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
