The paper is part of my PhD as well as the Indo-Norwegian project "OCTEL" headed by the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Goa, India, and the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI), Tromsø, Norway.

The paper focused on reconstructing SST and sea ice during the HTM in Kongsfjorden and how oceanic conditions during HTM are important in understanding the modern warming in the region