Anomalous collapses of Nares Strait ice arches leads to enhanced export of Arctic sea ice

GWK Moore, SEL Howell, M Brady, X Xu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The ice arches that usually develop at the northern and southern ends of Nares Strait play
an important role in modulating the export of Arctic Ocean multi-year sea ice. The Arctic …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated observations of global surface winds, currents, and waves: requirements and challenges for the next decade

AB Villas Bôas, F Ardhuin, A Ayet… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Ocean surface winds, currents, and waves play a crucial role in exchanges of momentum,
energy, heat, freshwater, gases, and other tracers between the ocean, atmosphere, and ice …

Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system

TM Lenton, H Held, E Kriegler… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
The term “tipping point” commonly refers to a critical threshold at which a tiny perturbation
can qualitatively alter the state or development of a system. Here we introduce the term …

Processes controlling surface, bottom and lateral melt of Arctic sea ice in a state of the art sea ice model

M Tsamados, D Feltham, A Petty… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We present a modelling study of processes controlling the summer melt of the Arctic sea ice
cover. We perform a sensitivity study and focus our interest on the thermodynamics at the ice …

Large sea ice outflow into the Nares Strait in 2007

R Kwok, L Toudal Pedersen… - Geophysical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Sea ice flux through the Nares Strait is most active during the fall and early winter, ceases in
mid‐to late‐winter after the formation of ice arches along the strait, and re‐commences after …

A comparison of Arctic Ocean sea ice export between Nares Strait and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

SEL Howell, DG Babb, JC Landy… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nares Strait and the channels of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA) act as conduits for
sea ice export from the Arctic Ocean but have never been directly compared. Here, we …

A study of the north water polynya ice arch using four decades of satellite data

RF Vincent - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Polynyas are sections of the polar ocean that remain relatively ice-free during winter,
imparting significant physical and biological impact on the region. The North Water polynya …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping pan-Arctic landfast sea ice stability using Sentinel-1 interferometry

DO Dammann, LEB Eriksson, AR Mahoney… - The …, 2019 - tc.copernicus.org
Arctic landfast sea ice has undergone substantial changes in recent decades, affecting ice
stability and including potential impacts on ice travel by coastal populations and on industry …

[PDF][PDF] Integrated observations of global surface winds, currents, and waves: requirements and challenges for the next decade

ABV Boas, F Ardhuin, A Ayet, MA Bourassa, P Brandt… - 2019 - escholarship.org
Ocean surface winds, currents, and waves play a crucial role in exchanges of momentum,
energy, heat, freshwater, gases, and other tracers between the ocean, atmosphere, and ice …

Sea-ice deformation in a coupled ocean–sea-ice model and in satellite remote sensing data

G Spreen, R Kwok, D Menemenlis, AT Nguyen - The Cryosphere, 2017 - tc.copernicus.org
A realistic representation of sea-ice deformation in models is important for accurate
simulation of the sea-ice mass balance. Simulated sea-ice deformation from numerical …