The Arctic is warming faster than any other region in the world. Among the changes already
witnessed, the loss of seasonal sea ice is by far the most striking. This large-scale shift in …

Supraglacial lakes (SGLs) are now known to be widespread in Antarctica, where they
represent an important component of ice sheet mass balance. This paper reviews how …

A series of observations were made on melting first year, landfast Arctic sea ice near Barrow,
Alaska to explore the seasonal evolution of melt pond coverage. Observations of pond …

Melt ponds on sea ice play an important role in the Arctic climate system. Their presence
alters the partitioning of solar radiation: decreasing reflection, increasing absorption and …

In July 2011, the observation of a massive phytoplankton bloom underneath a sea ice–
covered region of the Chukchi Sea shifted the scientific consensus that regions of the Arctic …

We reexamine five processes that have been suggested to be important for the loss of salt
from sea ice. These processes are the initial fractionation of salt at the ice‐ocean interface …

Measurements of sea ice concentration from the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I)
using seven different algorithms are compared to ship observations, sea ice divergence …

A new meltpond parameterization has been developed for the CICE sea ice model, taking
advantage of the level ice tracer available in the model. The ponds evolve according to …

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 2007 and 2011 and climate models …

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 …