Arctic Mediterranean

E601166

marginal sea marine region

The Arctic Mediterranean is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean encompassing subarctic and arctic basins and seas that mediate water, heat, and salt exchange between the North Atlantic and the central Arctic.

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Label	Occurrences
Arctic Mediterranean canonical	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	marginal sea ⓘ marine region ⓘ
borderedBy	Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ Greenland NERFINISHED ⓘ Iceland NERFINISHED ⓘ Norway NERFINISHED ⓘ Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ United States (Alaska) NERFINISHED ⓘ
characterizedBy	complex circulation patterns ⓘ intense ocean–atmosphere heat exchange ⓘ seasonal sea ice cover ⓘ strong stratification ⓘ
connectedVia	Barents Sea Opening NERFINISHED ⓘ Bering Strait NERFINISHED ⓘ Denmark Strait NERFINISHED ⓘ Fram Strait NERFINISHED ⓘ
connects	North Atlantic Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ central Arctic Ocean ⓘ
hasClimate	polar climate ⓘ subarctic climate ⓘ
hasPart	Arctic Ocean deep basins ⓘ Barents Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Chukchi Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ East Siberian Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Greenland Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Irminger Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Kara Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Laptev Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Nordic Seas NERFINISHED ⓘ Norwegian Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasProcess	deep water formation in Nordic Seas ⓘ overflow of dense water into North Atlantic ⓘ
hasRole	mediates heat exchange between North Atlantic and central Arctic ⓘ mediates salt exchange between North Atlantic and central Arctic ⓘ mediates water exchange between North Atlantic and central Arctic ⓘ
influences	Arctic sea ice conditions ⓘ Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Hemisphere climate ⓘ
locatedIn	Arctic region ⓘ Northern Hemisphere ⓘ Subarctic region ⓘ
partOf	Arctic Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ
studiedInDiscipline	climate science ⓘ physical oceanography ⓘ
waterMass	Arctic Intermediate Water NERFINISHED ⓘ Atlantic Water NERFINISHED ⓘ Polar Surface Water ⓘ overflow waters to North Atlantic ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nordic Seas → partOf → Arctic Mediterranean ⓘ