Increasing River Discharge to the Arctic Ocean

By B. Peterson, R. Holmes, J. McClelland, C. Vörösmarty, R. Lammers, A. Shiklomanov, I. Shiklomanov, Stefan Rahmstorf. Science, 2002

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Prokaryotic community structure and heterotrophic production in a river-influenced coastal arctic ecosystem (2006, background): “The Arctic Ocean is strongly influenced by inflows from large rivers, and the discharge of these inputs appears to be increasing (Peterson et al. 2002), with implications for the delivery of dissolved and particulate organic matter to inshore arctic seas.”
Climate Change Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions (2004, background): “2003; Curry and Mauritzen 2005), as melting ice flows into the ocean, and more rain falls at high latitudes and flows into the Arctic Sea (Peterson et al. 2002).”
Sixty years of environmental change in the world's largest freshwater lake – Lake Baikal, Siberia (2008, background): “, 2006) and river flow (Peterson et al., 2002) that are associated with higher temperatures; however, studies in the Siberian subarctic are limited.”
Late summer phytoplankton distribution along a 3500 km transect in Canadian Arctic waters: strong numerical dominance by picoeukaryotes (2009, background): “The upper water column stratification can be enhanced by increased freshwater inputs from melting of sea ice and glaciers, excess net precipitation and increased river discharge (Peterson et al. 2002) or solar heating.”
Bias correction of monthly precipitation and temperature fields from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change AR4 models using equidistant quantile matching (2010, background): “Climatic changes have already been reported in this region in recent decades, including increased winter air temperature [Rawlins and Willmott, 2003; Robeson, 2004], reduced snow cover [Serreze et al., 2000], reduced sea ice retreat [Serreze et al., 2003; Serreze and Francis, 2006], and increased ru”
Perspectives on marine zooplankton lipids (2007, background): “Changing river impact could be pronounced, because the Arctic Ocean receives 10% of the global river runoff, and this freshwater flux is projected to increase between 20% and 70% by the year 2100 ( Peterson et al. 2002 ).”
Winter Biological Processes Could Help Convert Arctic Tundra to Shrubland (2005, background): “…and thickness of sea ice (Parkinson et al. 1999), (b) the retreat of arctic and subarctic glaciers (Arendt et al. 2002), (c) increased annual discharge from large northward-flowing rivers (Peterson et al. 2002), and (d) an Arctic-wide increase in permafrost temperatures (Romanovsky et al. 2002).”
The pan-Arctic biodiversity of marine pelagic and sea-ice unicellular eukaryotes: a first-attempt assessment (2011, background): “Higher likelihood of upwelling events along the transitional zone between ice-edge and coastal regions of the Arctic Ocean may contribute to enhance primary production and eukaryote biomass accumulation in annually formed sea ice during the vernal season (Benoît Philippe, personal communication).”