Freshwater content of upper Arctic Ocean increased 20 percent since 1990s, large-scale assessment finds
Posted by ScienceDaily: Oceanography News on 25 March, 2011
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The freshwater content of the upper Arctic Ocean has increased by about 20 percent since the 1990s, according to a new large-scale assessment. This corresponds to a rise of approximately 8,400 cubic kilometres and has the same magnitude as the volume of freshwater annually exported on average from this marine region in liquid or frozen form....