Modeling the Arctic sea-ice cover from the early Holocene

• Main Author: Dyck, Sarah
• Other Authors: Anne de Vernal (Internal/Cosupervisor2), Bruno Tremblay (Internal/Supervisor)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: McGill University 2009
• Subjects: Physics - Atmospheric Science; Arctic; Barents Sea; East Siberian Sea; Atlantic Arctic; Atlantic-Arctic; Mer de Barents; Mer de Sibérie orientale; North Atlantic; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32385

Paleo-evidence suggests that the mean state of the atmosphere in the early Holocene resembles the positive phase of the modern North Atlantic/Arctic Oscillation (NAO). To test this theory we use a coupled ice-ocean model to study the effects of atmospheric and ocean forcing from the positive phase o...