Steps Toward an Integrated Arctic Ocean Observational System

• Main Author: Jean Claude Gascard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Oceanography Society 2011
• Subjects: Arctic Ocean; International Polar Year; IPY; iAOOS; Oceanography; GC1-1581; Arctic; Damocles; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/dfdb7081c8cc41a1a95142e413ba3af9

Over the past 20 years, drastic changes have occurred at the basin scale in all Arctic sea ice characteristics: extent and concentration, thickness and distribution, drift and deformation, and age and category. The Arctic sea ice annual cycle is trending toward that of Antarctica, where most sea ice...