Divergent patterns of recent sea ice cover across the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort seas of the Pacific Arctic Region

• Published in: Progress in Oceanography
• Main Authors: Frey, Karen E., Moore, G. W.K., Cooper, Lee W., Grebmeier, Jacqueline M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Clark Digital Commons 2015
• Subjects: air temperature; divergence; ecosystem health; ice cover; satellite data; sea ice; wind-driven circulation; Climate; Oceanography; Arctic; Bering Sea; Canada; Lawrence Island; Pacific; Beaufort Sea; canada basin; Chukchi; Pacific Arctic; Sea ice; St Lawrence Island
• Online Access: https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_geography/216; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2015.05.009

Over the past three decades of the observed satellite record, there have been significant changes in sea ice cover across the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort seas of the Pacific Arctic Region (PAR). Satellite data reveal that patterns in sea ice cover have been spatially heterogeneous, with significan...