The temperature of the subsurface Atlantic Water in the
northern Barents Sea increased rapidly during the late 1990s.
A recent study by the Institute of Marine Research, the
University of Bergen and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research in Norway
shows that the northwest Barents Sea warmed substantially during the last
decades. The temperature of the subsurface Atlantic Water in the northern
Barents Sea increased rapidly during the late 1990s.