The State of the Arctic Sea Ice Cover: Sustaining the integrated seasonal ice zone observing network

• Main Author: Hajo Eicken
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2009
• Subjects: AON; Arctic; Narrows The; albedo; arctic cryosphere; International Polar Year; IPY; Sea ice; Study of Environmental Arctic Change; Alaska
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/urn:uuid:e84ccac2-3cf3-45b2-abc1-72fdab67b7f2

In a rapidly changing Arctic, the shrinking and thinning sea-ice cover plays an important role as indicator and agent of environmental change. A dramatic shrinking of the perennial ice cover has greatly increased the extent and hence importance of the Arctic seasonal ice zone (SIZ). The SIZ is predi...