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Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is located in the Northern Hemisphere. Ask questions about this icy polar ocean here.
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What is the exact temperature of the arctic ocean?
The Artic is very cold. Average winter temperatures can be as low as −40 °C (−40 °F), and the coldest recorded temperature is approximately −68 °C (−90 °F).
In January and February, the average temperature up there hovers around a numbing -29°F / -34°C.
The temperature averages below freezing year-round, with an average annual temperature of only -14°C / 7°F.
If you think you could bask in the summer sunshine, forget it. Summer highs average only -1.5°C / 29°F!
The lowest world temperature in inhabited areas was recorded in the Arctic. The thermometers plunged to -90.4°F / -68°C in both Oymyakon, Siberia (Feb. 6, 1933) and Verkhoyansk, Siberia (Jan. 3, 1885).
The lowest world temperature for anywhere, however, was -128.6°F / -89.2°C recorded at Vostok Station (Picture: Right), Antarctica on July 21, 1983 - and that doesn't include wind chill!
Although the Arctic is known as a cold place, Fort Yukon, Alaska has recorded an extreme high temperature of 100°F / 37°C, while Verkhoyansk (which shares the record for the coldest place in the northern hemisphere) has recorded a high of 94°F / 34°C. That's quite a temperature spread!
The Arctic varies in temperature during the year just like any place else on earth. How much the temperature varies depends on where in the Arctic you are (it's a very big area, and some areas are colder or windier than others). I've been a guide in the Arctic year round for several years now, and I've heard of temperatures as low as -78 degrees Fahrenheit (without any kind of wind-chill added in), and during the summer it can be in the +90's. One place even recorded a high of 102 degrees Fahrenheit!
The thing about the Arctic is its unpredictable nature. It can be in the 80's in July, and then just fifteen miles down the road it abruptly drops into the 30's and starts snowing, then an hour later it warms up again. On the whole, however, the Arctic is "too cold" in the winter and warm in the summer months.
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Which continent is closest to the Arctic Ocean?
Asia, Europe and North America all have shorelines on the Arctic Ocean.
The continent closest to the North Pole is North America (in Greenland).
What are the Arctic Ocean decomposers?
that is one of the best questions I have seen on here!
surely the answer is nothing! as all the ice and snow just preserve everythying when it dies. And given that they can find a truly ancient man in the alps, who is frozen for thousands of years, I stand by my original answer!
No. Large, visible lifeforms cannot survive the high salt concentration. This lack of life gives the sea it's name. Specially-evolved bacteria do live there, and can be seen through a microscope.
What continents touch all 5 ocean?
If the "5 ocean" in question are the Arctic, the Antarctic/Southern, the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian... none. No continent touches both the Arctic and Southern oceans. In fact, the exact boundaries of the Southern Ocean are not well defined, but using the 60th parallel definition, the only continent that touches the Southern Ocean is Antarctica, which touches no other ocean.
If you exclude the Southern Ocean and ask instead what continents touch all four oceans, the answer is "maybe Asia, depending on exactly where you draw the boundary between Asia and Europe and precisely what bodies of water you consider to be part of the Atlantic."
Were is tha arctic ocean in Europe?
It is right up in the very North, or top, of Europe. Of European countries only Norway and Russia have Arctic coastlines, although Denmark still part-owns Greenland so in a sense it has an Arctic coastline as well. Hope this is the information you wanted.
vast, flat, treeless, frozen
How salty is the arctic ocean?
There is no exact figure as it is always getting saltier!
Rain falls and gets absorbed into the land. It eventually joins rivers and streams and on its journey to the sea, it collects minerals and sediment which one of those is salt!
ITs so salty u can make scrambled eggs in it..
Why does the Arctic Ocean freeze and the Pacific does not?
As water freezes salt is released increasing the percentage of salt in the ocean water, the higher the percentage of salt the lower the freezing temperature of the water. The cycle of water freezing -> salt being released -> more water freezing reaches equilibrium at witch point the temperature necessary to freeze more water is lower then the air temperature.
Which ocean touches three continents what are they?
Arctic Ocean: North America, Europe, and Asia.
Indian Ocean: Asia, Australia, and Africa.
Latitude and longitude of arctic ocean?
It must, by definition, cover all lines of Longitude. In terms of Latitude it is further north than, say, 60 degrees.
Which continents do the Arctic ocean touch?
The Arctic Ocean only touches Europe, North America, and Asia.
The Arctic ocean covers the top of the world around the North Pole extending down all lines of Latitude. It is bordered by Russia, Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Canada and the United States, and includes many islands.
Any land mass that may enter into the Arctic Ocean will have the ocean on its North side, and possibly East and West sides as well (for island in the ocean, the ocean is also on its South side).
The arctic ocean is which direction from north america?
Yes.
The vast majority of North America lies south of the Arctic Circle, with Panama (its southernmost point) reaching 7 degrees north latitude. Only the very far north of mainland Canada and Alaska are north of the Arctic Circle and those areas are generally inhabited.
What is bigger the Pacific Atlantic or Arctic Ocean?
The Pacific Ocean is biggest. The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean in the world at 155,557,000 sq km. The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest ocean in the world at 76,762,000 sq km. The Arctic Ocean is the fifth largest 9and smallest) ocean in the world at 14,056,000 sq km.
Which state borders Pacific Ocean and Arctic Ocean?
Alaska is the only state that borders the Arctic Ocean.
What is the location of the arctic ocean on a world map?
Basically it is the area surrounding the North Pole. The area of sea which borders the northern coasts of Russia, Siberia, Alaska, Canada, Iceland, Greenland & Norway.
Which oceans make up the southern ocean?
As of the year 2000, the International Hydrographic Organisation decided that the waters surrounding Antarctica would be known officially as the Southern Ocean. The Southern Ocean extends from the coast of Antarctica to the 60 degree South line of Latitude. What is now the Southern Ocean was previously the southern most portions of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. The Southern Ocean incorporates the Amundsen Sea, Bellingshausen Sea, part of the Drake Passage, Ross Sea, a small part of the Scotia Sea, Weddell Sea, and other tributary water bodies.
What is a narrow passage of water connecting the Arctic Ocean to the pacific ocean?
The Bering Strait links the southern part of the Arctic Ocean (called the Chukchi Sea) to the Bering Sea.
