EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union Natural Variability of Arctic Sea Ice Over the Holocene

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Johannessen; Northwest Passage; albedo; Arctic Archipelago; International Polar Year; Northwest passage; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.397.7362; http://gizmo.geotop.uqam.ca/rochonA/Fisher_et_al_Eos_2006.pdf

The area and volume of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is decreasing, with some predicting ice-free summers by 2100 A.D. [Johannessen et al., 2004]. The implications of these trends for transportation and ecosystems are profound; for example, summer shipping through the Northwest Passage could be possib...