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Igor Yashayaev is affiliated with the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Canada, where their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work primarily addresses oceanographic and atmospheric processes with additional focus on climate variability and models, marine and coastal ecosystems, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, they explore subfields such as:

  • Oceanography
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Biotechnology

The key research topics Igor Yashayaev focuses on are:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Marine Sponges and Natural Products

The scientist has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Argo Data 1999-2019: Two Million Temperature-Salinity Profiles and Subsurface Velocity Observations From a Global Array of Profiling Floats, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Ocean circulation causes the largest freshening event for 120 years in eastern subpolar North Atlantic, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Subpolar North Atlantic western boundary density anomalies and the Meridional Overturning Circulation, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Seasonality of the Meridional Overturning Circulation in the subpolar North Atlantic, 2023, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Deep ocean microbial communities produce more stable dissolved organic matter through the succession of rare prokaryotes, 2022, Science Advances

Frequent co-authors of Igor Yashayaev include:

  • N. Penny Holliday
  • Stuart A. Cunningham
  • Virginie Thierry
  • William E. Johns
  • Feili Li

Regarding publication venues, their work has appeared most frequently in:

  • Nature Communications
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Frontiers in Marine Science

Best Publications

  • A change in the freshwater balance of the Atlantic Ocean over the past four decades

    Ruth Curry;Bob Dickson;Igor Yashayaev

  • Rapid freshening of the deep North Atlantic Ocean over the past four decades

    Bob Dickson;Igor Yashayaev;Jens Meincke;Bill Turrell

  • A sea change in our view of overturning in the subpolar North Atlantic

    M. S. Lozier;F. Li;S. Bacon;F. Bahr

  • Hydrographic changes in the Labrador Sea, 1960–2005

    Igor Yashayaev

  • Anomalously weak Labrador Sea convection and Atlantic overturning during the past 150 years

    David J. R. Thornalley;David J. R. Thornalley;Delia W. Oppo;Pablo Ortega;Jon I. Robson

  • Convection and restratification in the Labrador Sea, 1990-2000

    John Lazier;Ross Hendry;Allyn Clarke;Igor Yashayaev

  • Argo Data 1999–2019: Two Million Temperature-Salinity Profiles and Subsurface Velocity Observations From a Global Array of Profiling Floats

    Annie P.S. Wong;Susan E. Wijffels;Stephen C. Riser;Sylvie Pouliquen

  • Current estimates of freshwater flux through Arctic and subarctic seas

    Robert Dickson;Bert Rudels;Stephen Dye;Michael Karcher

  • Ocean circulation causes the largest freshening event for 120 years in eastern subpolar North Atlantic

    N. Penny Holliday;Manfred Bersch;Barbara Berx;Leon Chafik

  • Enhanced production of Labrador Sea Water in 2008

    Igor Yashayaev;John W. Loder

  • Recurrent replenishment of Labrador Sea Water and associated decadal-scale variability

    Igor Yashayaev;John W. Loder

  • Deep water formation, the subpolar gyre, and the meridional overturning circulation in the subpolar North Atlantic

    Monika Rhein;Dagmar Kieke;Sabine Hüttl-Kabus;Achim Roessler

  • North Atlantic simulations in Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments phase II (CORE-II). Part II: Inter-annual to decadal variability

    Gokhan Danabasoglu;Steve G. Yeager;Who M. Kim;Erik Behrens

  • Further Intensification of Deep Convection in the Labrador Sea in 2016

    Igor Yashayaev;John W. Loder

  • Spreading of the Labrador Sea Water to the Irminger and Iceland basins

    Igor Yashayaev;Manfred Bersch;Hendrik M. van Aken

  • Recent changes of the thermohaline circulation in the subpolar North Atlantic

    Manfred Bersch;Igor Yashayaev;Klaus Peter Koltermann

  • Arctic Ocean Freshwater Changes over the Past 100 Years and Their Causes

    Igor V. Polyakov;V. A. Alexeev;G. I. Belchansky;Igor A. Dmitrenko

  • Deep water changes at the western boundary of the subpolar North Atlantic during 1996 to 2001

    Lothar Stramma;Dagmar Kieke;Monika Rhein;Friedrich A Schott

  • Migration Pathways, Behavioural Thermoregulation and Overwintering Grounds of Blue Sharks in the Northwest Atlantic

    Steven E. Campana;Anna Dorey;Mark Fowler;Warren Joyce

  • Studies of Labrador Sea Water formation and variability in the subpolar North Atlantic in the light of international partnership and collaboration

    Dagmar Kieke;Igor Yashayaev

  • Anomalously weak Labrador Sea convection and Atlantic overturning during the past 150 years, supplement to: Thornalley, David JR; Oppo, Delia W; Ortega, Pablo; Robson, Jon I; Brierley, Chris M; Davis, Renee; Hall, Ian R; Moffa-Sanchez, Paola; Rose, Neil L; Spooner, Peter T; Yashayaev, Igor M; Keigwin, Lloyd D (2018): Anomalously weak Labrador Sea convection and Atlantic overturning during the past 150 years. Nature, 556(7700), 227-230

    David Jr Thornalley;Delia W Oppo;Pablo Ortega;Jon I Robson

Frequent Co-Authors

Monika Rhein
Monika Rhein University of Bremen
Erica J. H. Head
Erica J. H. Head Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Gilles Reverdin
Gilles Reverdin Sorbonne University
Ellen Kenchington
Ellen Kenchington Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Fiammetta Straneo
Fiammetta Straneo University of California, San Diego
Sheldon Bacon
Sheldon Bacon National Oceanography Centre
Virginie Thierry
Virginie Thierry French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Eric P. Chassignet
Eric P. Chassignet Florida State University
Simona Masina
Simona Masina Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
Anastasia Romanou
Anastasia Romanou Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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