Contrasting lake ice responses to winter climate indicate future variability and trends on the Alaskan Arctic Coastal Plain

• Published in: Environmental Research Letters
• Main Authors: Christopher D Arp, Benjamin M Jones, Melanie Engram, Vladimir A Alexeev, Lei Cai, Andrew Parsekian, Kenneth Hinkel, Allen C Bondurant, Andrea Creighton
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 2018
• Subjects: arctic; winter; climate change; lakes; freshwater ice; Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering; TD1-1066; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Science; Q; Physics; QC1-999; Arctic; Barrow Peninsula; Barrow; Climate change; Ice; permafrost; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aae994; https://doaj.org/article/e85812df7ef347608235bf8cf56c163e

Strong winter warming has dominated recent patterns of climate change along the Arctic Coastal Plain (ACP) of northern Alaska. The full impact of arctic winters may be best manifest by freshwater ice growth and the extent to which abundant shallow ACP lakes freeze solid with bedfast ice by the end o...