The relationship between geophysical processes and changes in the
composition of the seawater of the Barents Sea in the course of their
climatic variability
Abstract
The variability of streams in the atmosphere and the ocean, as shown in
a number of studies, affects the change in the speed of the Earth’s
rotation. However, it can cause a reverse reaction—a change in the
Coriolis force; as a result of this, atmospheric and oceanic streams can
have some variability. In the following work, a hypothesis is presented
and considered: it suggests that a change in the volume of Atlantic
water inflow into the Barents Sea is related to the change in the
Earth’s rotation speed. The paper presents a methodology for determining
representative values of the temperature and salinity of seawater that
describe the largest possible volume of the sea, as well as a
methodology for calculating the content of Atlantic, river and melt
water for the period of 100 years. The change of these parameters, and
the length of day values, demonstrates the presence of both linear
trends and cyclical fluctuations with a period of about 80 years. As a
result, it was shown that a decrease in the Earth’s rotation speed with
a linear trend somewhat decreases the observed intensity of the
processes of global climate change in the Arctic region (an increase in
temperature and salinity). Due to the summation of positive anomalies,
both a linear trend and a quasi-80-year cycle, the modern period is
characterized by abnormally high values of water temperature, the growth
of which has not stopped and will possibly reach its maximum between
2025 and 2030.