Abstract: Combined δ18O/salinity data reveal a distinctive water mass generated during winter sea ice formation which is found predominantly in the coastal polynya region of the southern Laptev Sea. Export of the brine‐enriched bottom water shows interannual variability in correlation with atmospheric conditions. Summer anticyclonic circulation is favoring an offshore transport of river water at the surface as well as a pronounced signal of brine‐enriched waters at about 50 m water depth at the shelf break. Summer cyclonic atmospheric circulation fa...
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Oceanography