Freshwater contents and heat budgets of James Bay and Hudson Bay
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2016, Marine MicropaleontologyCitation Excerpt :On account of the circulation pattern and the substantial input from rivers draining into James Bay, freshwater accumulates in the southeastern and eastern parts of the corridor (Granskog et al., 2011). Hence, even though both of our study sites lie within the freshwater-dominated coastal zone, salinities are higher and summer surface mixed layer depth lower in the west than in the east (Anderson and Roff, 1980; Prinsenberg, 1984; Ferland et al., 2011; Lapoussière et al., 2013). Furthermore, during the open-water season the southeastern region around trap site AN03 is often the warmest region in Hudson Bay (see Suppelementary Table 1)(Galbraith and Larouche, 2011).
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2014, Marine MicropaleontologyCitation Excerpt :Main contributing rivers are the Nelson River (94.4 km3 a− 1) in the southeast and the Great Whale River (80.5 km3 a− 1) in the southwest of the Bay, along with the rivers discharging into James Bay (262 km3 a− 1) (Déry et al., 2011). The collective yield of 760 km3 a− 1 of river water induces a distinct haline stratification that is strengthened in spring and summer by sea-ice melt of ca. 1.5 m (Prinsenberg, 1984, 1988; Galbraith and Larouche, 2011; Granskog et al., 2011). Importantly, the river inflow is contained in a counter-clockwise circulation gyre along the perimeter of the Bay (Prinsenberg, 1986b; Saucier et al., 2004), leading to limited transfer of river water and associated properties from the coastal corridor into the interior of the Bay (Granskog et al., 2009, 2011; St-Laurent et al., 2011).
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2012, Progress in OceanographyCitation Excerpt :The region is characterized by large freshwater input from surrounding rivers (Déry et al., 2005, 2011) and also by the seasonal formation and melting of sea-ice over most of the region (Prinsenberg, 1984), which give it the estuary-like, two–layer circulation pattern separated by a strong pycnocline located between 5 and 25 m (Roff and Legendre, 1986). The large riverine input circulates cyclonically in the surface layer of HB, which is characterized by fresher and less dense waters than those entering between Southampton and Coats islands in the northwest part of HB (Prinsenberg, 1984). The fresh surface waters mix with the numerous local river plumes and slowly circle the bay before exiting by the southern shore of HS towards the Labrador Sea (Pett and Roff, 1982; Saucier et al., 2004).