Impacts of atmospheric and oceanic factors on monthly and interannual variations of polynya in the East Siberian Sea and Chukchi Sea

• Published in: Advances in Climate Change Research
• Main Authors: Yu Zhang, Yan-Yan Zhang, Dan-Ya Xu, Chang-Sheng Chen, Xin-Yi Shen, Song Hu, Liang Chang, Xiang-Qian Zhou, Gui-Ping Feng
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2021
• Subjects: Polynya area; AMSR-E; Wind; Ocean heat transport; Meteorology. Climatology; QC851-999; Social sciences (General); H1-99; Chukchi Sea; East Siberian Sea; Chukchi; Northeast Passage; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accre.2021.07.005; https://doaj.org/article/f5415ca6aaa947aa912d7e86fb1f068a

As a key region of Northeast Passage, the polynya along the Siberian coast in the East Siberian and Chukchi Seas is important to local dynamic and thermodynamic processes, sea ice production and marine ecosystem. The detailed variations of polynya and the contributions of atmospheric and oceanic fac...