Analysis of the warmest Arctic winter, 2015–2016 ...

• Main Authors: Cullather, Richard I., Lim, Young-Kwon, Boisvert, Linette N., Brucker, Ludovic, Lee, Jae N., Nowicki, Sophie M. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: AGU 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; North Pole; Taymyr; Sea ice; Taymyr Peninsula; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.13016/m21lwd-eqde; https://mdsoar.org/handle/11603/28608

December through February 2015–2016 defines the warmest winter season over the Arctic in the observational record. Positive 2 m temperature anomalies were focused over regions of reduced sea ice cover in the Kara and Barents Seas and southwestern Alaska. A third region is found over the ice-covered...