Growth, structure and properties of sea ice

C Petrich, H Eicken - Sea ice, 2010 - books.google.com
The substantial reduction in summer Arctic sea ice extent observed in 2007 and 2008 and its
potential ecological and geopolitical impacts generated a lot of attention by the media and …

Modeling the impact of declining sea ice on the Arctic marine planktonic ecosystem

J Zhang, YH Spitz, M Steele, C Ashjian… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We have developed a coupled 3‐D pan‐Arctic biology/sea ice/ocean model to investigate
the impact of declining Arctic sea ice on the marine planktonic ecosystem over 1988–2007 …

Incorporation of a physically based melt pond scheme into the sea ice component of a climate model

D Flocco, DL Feltham, AK Turner - Journal of Geophysical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The extent and thickness of the Arctic sea ice cover has decreased dramatically in the past
few decades with minima in sea ice extent in September 2005 and 2007. These minima …

Seasonality of spectral albedo and transmittance as observed in the Arctic Transpolar Drift in 2007

M Nicolaus, S Gerland, SR Hudson… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The first continuous and high temporal resolution record of spectral albedo and
transmittance of snow and sea ice in the Arctic Ocean over an entire summer season is …

Annual cycle of landfast sea ice in Prydz Bay, east Antarctica

R Lei, Z Li, B Cheng, Z Zhang… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Under the Chinese National Antarctic Research Expedition program in 2006, the annual
thermal mass balance of landfast ice in the vicinity of Zhongshan Station, Prydz Bay, east …

Benthic macrofauna and megafauna assemblages in the Arctic deep-sea Canada Basin

IR MacDonald, BA Bluhm, K Iken, S Gagaev… - Deep Sea Research Part …, 2010 - Elsevier
The benthic component of an interdisciplinary expedition on icebreaker USCG HEALY
analyzed box core samples and seafloor photographs to quantify deep-sea assemblages in …

[HTML][HTML] The melting of ice in the Arctic Ocean: The influence of double-diffusive transport of heat from below

JS Turner - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2010 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Melting of Ice in the Arctic Ocean: The Influence of Double-Diffusive Transport of Heat
from Below in: Journal of Physical Oceanography Volume 40 Issue 1 (2010) Jump to …

Jellies under ice: ROV observations from the Arctic 2005 hidden ocean expedition

KA Raskoff, RR Hopcroft, KN Kosobokova… - Deep Sea Research …, 2010 - Elsevier
In order to provide a baseline understanding of gelatinous zooplankton biodiversity and
distribution in the rapidly changing Arctic Ocean, 12 stations were sampled across the …

A model of the three‐dimensional evolution of Arctic melt ponds on first‐year and multiyear sea ice

F Scott, DL Feltham - Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
During winter the ocean surface in polar regions freezes over to form sea ice. In the summer
the upper layers of sea ice and snow melts producing meltwater that accumulates in Arctic …

Rapid physically driven inversion of the air–sea ice CO2 flux in the seasonal landfast ice off Barrow, Alaska after onset of surface melt

D Nomura, H Eicken, R Gradinger… - Continental Shelf Research, 2010 - Elsevier
The air–sea ice CO2 flux was measured over landfast sea ice in the Chukchi Sea, off
Barrow, Alaska in late May 2008 with a chamber technique. The ice cover transitioned from …