Arctic Sea Ice Decline - Results from Winter 2015/16

• Main Authors: Nicolaus, Marcel, Hendricks, Stefan, Ricker, Robert
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Alfred Wegener Institute; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/40803/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/40803/1/1604_Nicolaus_EGU_PK_small.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.47913; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.47913.d001

Sea ice physicists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), are anticipating that the sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean this summer may shrink to the record low of 2012. The scientists made this projection after evaluating current satellite data about the thickness of the ice cover. The data show that the arctic sea ice was already extraordinarily thin in the summer of 2015. Comparably little new ice formed during the past winter.