Sustained ocean changes contributed to sudden Antarctic sea ice retreat in late 2016
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...
Published in: | Nature Communications |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , |
Format: | Text |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2019
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Online Access: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6312884/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30600315 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07865-9 |