Sustained ocean changes contributed to sudden Antarctic sea ice retreat in late 2016

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Meehl, Gerald A., Arblaster, Julie M., Chung, Christine T.Y., Holland, Marika M., DuVivier, Alice, Thompson, Lu Anne, Yang, Dongxia, Bitz, Cecilia M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Pacific; Indian; Curl; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://research.monash.edu/en/publications/16b4a3d7-d25a-48fe-a196-4ff05989bb68; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07865-9; https://researchmgt.monash.edu/ws/files/260228581/259884047_oa.pdf; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85059341760&partnerID=8YFLogxK

After nearly three decades of observed increasing trends of Antarctic sea ice extent, in September-October-November 2016, there was a dramatic decrease. Here we document factors that contributed to that decrease. An atmosphere-only model with a specified positive convective heating anomaly in the ea...