Exploring Arctic Transpolar Drift During Dramatic Sea Ice Retreat

The Arctic is undergoing significant environmental changes due to climate warming. The most evident signal of this warming is the shrinking and thinning of the ice cover of the Arctic Ocean. If the warming continues, as global climate models predict, the Arctic Ocean will change from a perennially i...

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Published in:Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
Main Authors: Gascard, J., Festy, J., le Goff, H., Weber, M., Bruemmer, B., Offermann, M., Doble, M., Wadhams, P., Forsberg, R., Hanson, S., Skourup, H., Gerland, S., Nicolaus, M., Metaxian, J., Grangeon, J., Haapala, J., Rinne, E., Haas, C., Wegener, A., Heygster, G., Jakobson, E., Palo, T., Wilkinson, J., Kaleschke, L., Claffey, K., Elder, B., Bottenheim, J.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: 2008
Subjects:
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Sea ice
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0018-324F-7
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Summary:The Arctic is undergoing significant environmental changes due to climate warming. The most evident signal of this warming is the shrinking and thinning of the ice cover of the Arctic Ocean. If the warming continues, as global climate models predict, the Arctic Ocean will change from a perennially ice-covered to a seasonally ice-free ocean. Estimates as to when this will occur vary from the 2030s to the end of this century. One reason for this huge uncertainty is the lack of systematic observations describing the state, variability, and changes in the Arctic Ocean.

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