Loss of sea ice in the Arctic

DK Perovich, JA Richter-Menge - Annual review of marine …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
The Arctic sea ice cover is in decline. The areal extent of the ice cover has been decreasing
for the past few decades at an accelerating rate. Evidence also points to a decrease in sea …

[HTML][HTML] The arctic summer cloud ocean study (ASCOS): Overview and experimental design

M Tjernström, C Leck, CE Birch… - Atmospheric …, 2014 - acp.copernicus.org
The climate in the Arctic is changing faster than anywhere else on earth. Poorly understood
feedback processes relating to Arctic clouds and aerosol–cloud interactions contribute to a …

Thinning and volume loss of the Arctic Ocean sea ice cover: 2003–2008

R Kwok, GF Cunningham… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We present our best estimate of the thickness and volume of the Arctic Ocean ice cover from
10 Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) campaigns that span a 5‐year period …

Escape of methane gas from the seabed along the West Spitsbergen continental margin

GK Westbrook, KE Thatcher, EJ Rohling… - Geophysical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
More than 250 plumes of gas bubbles have been discovered emanating from the seabed of
the West Spitsbergen continental margin, in a depth range of 150–400 m, at and above the …

Divergent patterns of recent sea ice cover across the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort seas of the Pacific Arctic Region

KE Frey, GWK Moore, LW Cooper… - Progress in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Over the past three decades of the observed satellite record, there have been significant
changes in sea ice cover across the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort seas of the Pacific Arctic …

Sunlight, water, and ice: Extreme Arctic sea ice melt during the summer of 2007

DK Perovich, JA Richter‐Menge… - Geophysical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The summer extent of the Arctic sea ice cover, widely recognized as an indicator of climate
change, has been declining for the past few decades reaching a record minimum in …

Arctic Ocean surface warming trends over the past 100 years

M Steele, W Ermold, J Zhang - Geophysical Research Letters, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean temperature profiles and satellite data have been analyzed for summertime sea
surface temperature (SST) and upper ocean heat content variations over the past century …

Mechanisms of summertime upper Arctic Ocean warming and the effect on sea ice melt

M Steele, J Zhang, W Ermold - Journal of Geophysical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we use a numerical sea‐ice‐ocean model to examine what causes
summertime upper ocean warming and sea ice melt during the 21st century in the Arctic …

Reduced ice thickness in Arctic Transpolar Drift favors rapid ice retreat

C Haas, A Pfaffling, S Hendricks… - Geophysical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Helicopter‐borne electromagnetic sea ice thickness measurements were performed over the
Transpolar Drift in late summers of 2001, 2004, and 2007, continuing ground‐based …

The Arctic circumpolar boundary current

Y Aksenov, VV Ivanov, AJG Nurser… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We present high‐resolution simulations and observational data as evidence of a fast current
flowing along the shelf break of the Siberian and Alaskan shelves in the Arctic Ocean. Thus …