Arctic Summer Sea Ice Melt and Related Atmospheric Conditions in Coupled Regional Climate Model Simulations and Observations

• Main Authors: Rinke, A., Knudsen, Erlend M., Mewes, D., Dorn, W., Handorf, D., Dethloff, K., Moore, J. C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION 2019
• Subjects: ddc:no; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Greenland; Kara Sea; Taymyr; Sea ice; Taymyr Peninsula; Siberia
• Online Access: https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/13740/

Observations from 1979 to 2014 show a positive trend in the summer sea ice melt rate with an acceleration particularly in June and August. This is associated with atmospheric circulation changes such as a tendency toward a dipole pattern in the mean sea level pressure (SLP) trend with an increase ov...