Climate Change and Sea Ice
Global warming signals are observed in the atmosphere, land, ocean, and ice from multiple instrumental and paleoclimatic sources. Data indicate regional warming and changes in precipitation patterns. The heat content of the ocean up to 700 m depth has increased significantly while the contrast betwe...
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Wiley
2017
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0568 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2F9781118786352.wbieg0568 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0568 |
| Summary: | Global warming signals are observed in the atmosphere, land, ocean, and ice from multiple instrumental and paleoclimatic sources. Data indicate regional warming and changes in precipitation patterns. The heat content of the ocean up to 700 m depth has increased significantly while the contrast between wet regions and dry regions over the oceans has increased over the past 60 years. Among the strongest signals of warming are those from polar regions where climate change is amplified and increases in temperature caused significant changes in the timing of the melt season, retreats in the snow cover, loss of mass in ice sheet and glaciers, and thawing of the permafrost. But among the most dramatic changes observed on a global scale have been the rapid decline of the perennial and multiyear ice cover in the Arctic during the 1979 to 2013 period. Such decline can cause profound changes in the Arctic environment and the Earth's climate system. |
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