Perspectives on the Arctic's Shrinking Sea-Ice Cover
Linear trends in arctic sea-ice extent over the period 1979 to 2006 are negative in every month. This ice loss is best viewed as a combination of strong natural variability in the coupled ice-ocean-atmosphere system and a growing radiative forcing associated with rising concentrations of atmospheric...
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craaas:10.1126/science.1139426 2024-06-23T07:49:36+00:00 Perspectives on the Arctic's Shrinking Sea-Ice Cover Serreze, Mark C. Holland, Marika M. Stroeve, Julienne 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1139426 https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1139426 en eng American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science volume 315, issue 5818, page 1533-1536 ISSN 0036-8075 1095-9203 journal-article 2007 craaas https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1139426 2024-06-13T04:01:32Z Linear trends in arctic sea-ice extent over the period 1979 to 2006 are negative in every month. This ice loss is best viewed as a combination of strong natural variability in the coupled ice-ocean-atmosphere system and a growing radiative forcing associated with rising concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases, the latter supported by evidence of qualitative consistency between observed trends and those simulated by climate models over the same period. Although the large scatter between individual model simulations leads to much uncertainty as to when a seasonally ice-free Arctic Ocean might be realized, this transition to a new arctic state may be rapid once the ice thins to a more vulnerable state. Loss of the ice cover is expected to affect the Arctic's freshwater system and surface energy budget and could be manifested in middle latitudes as altered patterns of atmospheric circulation and precipitation. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean Sea ice AAAS Resource Center (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Arctic Arctic Ocean Science 315 5818 1533 1536 |
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Linear trends in arctic sea-ice extent over the period 1979 to 2006 are negative in every month. This ice loss is best viewed as a combination of strong natural variability in the coupled ice-ocean-atmosphere system and a growing radiative forcing associated with rising concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases, the latter supported by evidence of qualitative consistency between observed trends and those simulated by climate models over the same period. Although the large scatter between individual model simulations leads to much uncertainty as to when a seasonally ice-free Arctic Ocean might be realized, this transition to a new arctic state may be rapid once the ice thins to a more vulnerable state. Loss of the ice cover is expected to affect the Arctic's freshwater system and surface energy budget and could be manifested in middle latitudes as altered patterns of atmospheric circulation and precipitation. |
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Perspectives on the Arctic's Shrinking Sea-Ice Cover |
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Perspectives on the Arctic's Shrinking Sea-Ice Cover |
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