Arctic sea ice decline
Recent wind driven high sea ice area export in the Fram Strait contributes to Arctic sea ice decline
... 2010. Ice drift has been derived from radar satellite data and corresponds well with variability in lo- cal geostrophic ...Strait ice area export back to 1957, finding that the sea ice area ...
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The early twentieth century warming and winter Arctic sea ice
... The Arctic surface climate during the last century is char- acterized by strong multi-decadal variability with ETCW be- ing a part of ...the Arctic surface air temperature, the Arc- tic sea level ...
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Contributions of advection and melting processes to the decline in sea ice in the Pacific sector of the Arctic Ocean
... the decline in sea ice thick- ness in the Arctic ...The sea ice extent covered by MYI in March decreased from approximately 75 % (mid-1980s) to 45 % (2011), and coverage fraction ...
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A new pattern of the moisture transport for precipitation related to the drastic decline in Arctic sea ice extent
... It is useful to check the results derived from the Lagrangian approach to estimate MTP with other Eulerian approaches such as the computation of vertical integrated moisture flux (VIMF). Supplement Fig. S1 shows the ...
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Past and future interannual variability in Arctic sea ice in coupled climate models
... in ice area variability are partially a construction of the geography of the Arctic Basin, as evident in ...the ice margin is geographically constrained and unable to ex- pand and contract due to a ...
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Sea ice inertial oscillations in the Arctic Basin
... cent sea ice evolution, i.e. strong decline in terms of ice ex- tent and thickness, and accelerated kinematics, are strongly coupled within the albedo feedback ...favours sea ice ...
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Arctic sea ice variability and trends, 1979–2010
... lar sea ice cover over the last three decades have provided the basis for studying its regional, seasonal, and interannual ...The Arctic sea ice cover has exhibited a sig- nificant ...
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The complex response of Arctic aerosol to sea-ice retreat
... of ice but that atmospheric dynamics and clouds remain un- ...suppress Arctic drizzle, which would allow more efficient transport of aerosol into the Arctic from low latitudes (result- ing in a ...
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New estimates of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice extent during September 1964 from recovered Nimbus I satellite imagery
... the sea ice edge and estimates of total ice extent in the Arctic and Antarctic during September 1964 have been produced from Nimbus I satellite ...Antarctic ice extent is likely higher ...
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Statistical indicators of Arctic sea-ice stability – prospects and limitations
... summer sea ice. This decline re- sults from the fact that the heat conduction through the ice becomes more efficient with decreasing ...the ice before it can be radi- ated away from the ...
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Climate Policy Implications of Nonlinear Decline of Arctic Land Permafrost and Sea Ice
... September sea ice, as well as distinct peaks occurring when the early summer and spring sea ice disappears, coinciding with strong insolation ...September sea ice are smaller ...
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The Arctic sea ice cover of 2016: a year of record-low highs and higher-than-expected lows
... the ice flux divergence term (change in SIC driven by dynamics) into advection and divergence terms, and to present the residual as a separate term (as in HK2016), we avoid this extra step for simplicity and ...
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The relation between sea ice thickness and freeboard in the Arctic
... estimate ice thickness from the IceSat LA data. They showed that the ice thickness has sig- nificantly decreased from 2007 to 2008, which is in agree- ment with analysis of RA data from Envisat (Kwok et ...
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Freshening of the Labrador Sea as a trigger for Little Ice Age development
... the ice input in the Labrador Sea ...(i.e. ice input) to the SPG may trigger weakening of SPG circula- tion, and this may be amplified successively by positive feed- backs resulting in further ...
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On the assimilation of ice velocity and concentration data into large-scale sea ice models
... microwave ice concentration data. They utilized a simple sea ice model, driven by velocities optimally interpolated from buoy motions, to form indepen- dent model-derived concentration estimates that ...
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Brief communication: Increasing shortwave absorption over the Arctic Ocean is not balanced by trends in the Antarctic
... of sea ice results in ocean warming, more ice loss, a decrease in albedo, and a further increase in absorbed ...the ice–albedo feedback (Curry et ...the Arctic, a longer sea ...
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Spatiotemporal variability of barium in Arctic sea Ice and seawater
... the Arctic is critical in determining the density of water at sites of North Atlantic deep water formation, which in turn influences the global flux of oceanic heat and ...the Arctic Ocean as a freshwater ...
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Diel vertical migration of Arctic zooplankton during the polar night
... of Arctic marine ecosystems holds that most biological processes slow down or cease during the polar ...the Arctic winter, in both open and ice-covered ...with ice-covered ...the Arctic ...
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The effects of additional black carbon on the albedo of Arctic sea ice: variation with sea ice type and snow cover
... in sea ice may affect surface albedo, knowledge of snow depth over sea ice and its variation seasonally and spatially is essen- ...over sea ice have been re- ported both from ...
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Observations of brine plumes below melting Arctic sea ice
... of sea ice similar to that observed here likely occurs in the MIZ in spring in general, when enough heat is present to trigger such ...the Arctic interior, both because there is typi- cally less heat ...
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