The Atlantic Ocean is expanding, while the Arctic Ocean is diminishing as warm waters is invading into the northern parts of the planet. This is a finding of the study situated north of the Russian archipelago Severnaya Zemlya. The rapid change in temperatures of the oceans north of the Scandinavian Peninsula and Russia is attributed to climate change.

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According to Sciencedaily, the eastern side of the Arctic Ocean has been undergoing vertical mixing, which is a characteristic of the iceless parts of the Atlantic. Not only this, because the Arctic is losing sea ice, particularly during the summer months. In the last decade since 2011, the Eurasian Basin has nearly been stripped on ice as the ice formation has been very weak to form a layer.

At the same time, in a recent report by Livescience, this phenomenon is very evident in the stratified layers of the Arctic Ocean. At the surface is a cap of cold and less salty water of the Arctic, while under it is a pool of warm and salty water of the Atlantic. However, this is not so in the observations of the study and the data generated in previous researches.

The Atlantic Ocean is forcing its way into the Arctic and cutting into sea ice https://t.co/U1BxmlxKVC pic.twitter.com/mygLO7QcTc

— Climate Central (@ClimateCentral) April 10, 2017

There are some areas in the Arctic of which the cap of ice that separates the layers have melted completely. The result is the streaming of the warm Atlantic waters above to the surface. Moreover, the warm temperature has allowed more mixing and the reduction of the sea ice.

What can be seen from space is a picture of an expanding Atlantic waters that encroached to almost one - third of the Arctic ocean into the Atlantic Ocean. For more news on the Arctic Ocean, stay tuned to Telegiz.