North Atlantic warming and declining volume of arctic sea ice

• Main Authors: Alexeev, V. A., Ivanov, V. V., Kwok, R., Smedsrud, L. H.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Bering Strait; Pacific; Severnaya Zemlya; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Fram Strait; North Atlantic; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tcd-7-245-2013; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2012-196/

Long-term thinning of arctic sea ice over the last few decades has resulted in significant declines in the coverage of thick multi-year ice accompanied by a proportional increase in thinner first-year ice. This change is often attributed to changes in the arctic atmosphere, both in composition and l...