2005. Arctic Ocean Sea Ice Volume: What Explains its Recent Depletion

[1] Various observations and model results point to an arctic sea ice cover that was extraordinarily thin in the 1990s. This thin ice cover was caused by a strengthened cyclonic circulation of wind and ice and by unusual warmth of springtime air temperatures. Here modeled sea ice volume is decompose...

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Main Authors: D. A. Rothrock, J. Zhang
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Language:English
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.646.6454
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/zhang/Pubs/rothrock_zhang_2004JC002282.pdf