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Overview

Göran Björk is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with notable subfields including statistical and nonlinear physics, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, atmospheric science, oceanography, and environmental chemistry.

Their work covers various significant topics, such as scientific research and discoveries, methane hydrates and related phenomena, toxic organic pollutants impact, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and oil spill detection and mitigation.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Katarina Abrahamsson, Kjell Nordberg, Sarah Josefsson, Lisa Lundin, and Jaclyn Clement Kinney.

Göran Björk's recent papers are:

  • On the circulation, water mass distribution, and nutrient concentrations of the western Chukchi Sea, 2022, Ocean Science
  • Methane plume detection after the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosion in the Baltic Sea, 2024, Scientific Reports
  • Historic distribution of Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds (PAC) in a Skagerrak fjord, Swedish west coast as reflected in a high-resolution sediment record and compared to the Environmental Quality Standards (EQS), 2024, Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Tracing PAH emissions from leisure boats in a low tidal coastal area, including comparison with Environmental Quality Standards (EQS), 2024, Chemosphere
  • Historic Distribution of Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds (Pac) in a Skagerrak Fjord, Swedish West Coast as Reflected in a High-Resolution Sediment Record Andcompared to the Environmental Quality Standards (Eqs), 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal

Their publications have appeared in several venues, with multiple contributions to SSRN Electronic Journal, Ocean Science, Scientific Reports, Marine Pollution Bulletin, and Chemosphere.

Best Publications

  • The interaction between waters from the Arctic Ocean and the Nordic Seas north of Fram Strait and along the East Greenland Current : results from the Arctic Ocean-02 Oden expedition

    Bert Rudels;Göran Björk;Johan Nilsson;Peter Winsor

  • The Arctic Ocean Boundary Current along the Eurasian slope and the adjacent Lomonosov Ridge: Water mass properties, transports and transformations from moored instruments

    Rebecca A Woodgate;Knut Aagaard;Robin D Muench;John Gunn

  • Water masses and circulation in the Eurasian Basin: Results from the Oden 91 expedition

    L. G. Anderson;G. Björk;O. Holby;E. P. Jones

  • Polynya activity in the Arctic Ocean from 1958 to 1997

    Peter Winsor;Göran Björk

  • Inflow of Warm Circumpolar Deep Water in the Central Amundsen Shelf

    A. K. Wåhlin;X. Yuan;G. Björk;C. Nohr

  • Confluence and redistribution of Atlantic water in the Nansen, Amundsen and Makarov basins

    Ursula Schauer;B. Rudels;E. P. Jones;L. G. Anderson

  • Evidence for an ice shelf covering the central Arctic Ocean during the penultimate glaciation

    Martin Jakobsson;Martin Jakobsson;Johan Nilsson;Leif G. Anderson;Jan Backman

  • An Arctic Ocean ice shelf during MIS 6 constrained by new geophysical and geological data

    Martin Jakobsson;Johan Nilsson;Matthew O'Regan;Jan Backman

  • Water masses and circulation in the Eurasien Basin: Results from the Oden 91 expedition

    L. G. Anderson;G. Björk;Ola Holby;G. Kattner

  • East Siberian Sea, an Arctic region of very high biogeochemical activity

    L. G. Anderson;G. Björk;S. Jutterström;S. Jutterström;I. Pipko

  • Post-glacial flooding of the Bering Land Bridge dated to 11 cal ka BP based on new geophysical and sediment records

    Martin Jakobsson;Christof Pearce;Christof Pearce;Thomas M. Cronin;Jan Backman

  • Variability of Warm Deep Water Inflow in a Submarine Trough on the Amundsen Sea Shelf

    Anna Wåhlin;Ola Kalén;Lars Arneborg;Göran Björk

  • Double-diffusive layering in the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean

    Bert Rudels;Bert Rudels;Göran Björk;Robin D Muench;Ursula Schauer

  • Variability in river runoff distribution in the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean

    Leif G. Anderson;Sara Jutterström;Staffan Kaltin;E. Peter Jones

  • Persistent inflow of warm water onto the central Amundsen shelf

    L. Arneborg;A. K. Wåhlin;G. Björk;B. Liljebladh

  • Arctic ocean shelf–basin interaction: An active continental shelf CO2 pump and its impact on the degree of calcium carbonate solubility

    L.G. Anderson;Toste Tanhua;G. Björk;S. Hjalmarsson

  • Return of the cold halocline layer to the Amundsen Basin of the Arctic Ocean: Implications for the sea ice mass balance

    G. Björk;J. Söderkvist;P. Winsor;A. Nikolopoulos

  • Bathymetry and deep-water exchange across the central Lomonosov Ridge at 88–89°N

    Göran Björk;Martin Jakobsson;Bert Rudels;James H. Swift

  • A One-Dimensional Time-Dependent Model for the Vertical Stratification of the Upper Arctic Ocean

    Göran Björk

  • Observations of water masses and circulation with focus on the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean from the 1990s to the late 2000s

    B. Rudels;B. Rudels;Ursula Schauer;G. Björk;M. Korhonen;M. Korhonen

  • Some Implications of Ekman Layer Dynamics for Cross-Shelf Exchange in the Amundsen Sea

    Anna Wåhlin;R. D. Muench;Lars Arneborg;Göran Björk

Frequent Co-Authors

Leif G. Anderson
Leif G. Anderson University of Gothenburg
Igor Semiletov
Igor Semiletov Russian Academy of Sciences
Martin Jakobsson
Martin Jakobsson Stockholm University
Johan Nilsson
Johan Nilsson Lund University
James H. Swift
James H. Swift University of California, San Diego
Martin Frank
Martin Frank GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Carl-Magnus Mörth
Carl-Magnus Mörth Stockholm University
Don Porcelli
Don Porcelli University of Oxford
Per Andersson
Per Andersson Swedish Defence Research Agency
Toste Tanhua
Toste Tanhua GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

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