September Arctic sea-ice minimum predicted by spring melt-pond fraction

• Published in: Nature Climate Change
• Main Authors: Schröder, David, Feltham, Daniel L., Flocco, Daniela, Tsamados, Michel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2014
• Subjects: albedo; Arctic; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/36482/; http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2203.html

The area of Arctic September sea ice has diminished from about 7 million km2 in the 1990s to less than 5 million km2 in five of the past seven years, with a record minimum of 3.6 million km2 in 2012 (ref. 1). The strength of this decrease is greater than expected by the scientific community, the rea...