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Fram Strait
[ fram streyt ]
noun
- a strait that connects the Greenland Sea to the Arctic Ocean: site of the Molloy Deep, the deepest place in the Arctic.
Word History and Origins
Origin of Fram Strait1
Example Sentences
They put the systems at three locations in the Fram Strait, and at four depths in each location.
These waterbodies are connected by the Fram Strait, which sits to the northeast of Greenland near the Svalbard archipelago.
Overall, ice floes are spending 37 percent less time in the Arctic before escaping through the Fram Strait to melt in the Atlantic, or about 2.7 years on average since 2007, the researchers found.
The research reinforces past studies that show losses of nearly all of the oldest and thickest ice that once covered the Arctic, and that ice floes circulate around the Arctic and out through the Fram Strait more quickly as ice cover plummets.
The new analysis from scientists at the Norwegian institute relies on data captured from the Fram Strait, a passage between Greenland and the Norwegian archipelago known as Svalbard through which Arctic sea ice regularly flows on its way to the North Atlantic.
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