Sea Ice Reduction During Winter of 2017 Due to Oceanic Heat Supplied by Pacific Water in the Chukchi Sea, West Arctic Ocean

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Wang, Yingjie, Liu, Na, Zhang, Zhanhai
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2021
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Bering Strait; Chukchi Sea; Chukchi Shelf; Pacific; Chukchi; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.650909; https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.650909/full

Over the past few decades, the areal extent of the Arctic sea ice cover has decreased. During the winter of 2017, negative sea ice concentration anomalies occurred mainly in the Chukchi Sea and adjacent seas. The properties of Pacific water through the Bering Strait have changed in recent years. To...