Modelling the evolution of Arctic multiyear sea ice over 2000|2018

Arctic sea ice thickness, volume, and multiyear ice coverage

Over the scatterometer record (1999–2017), the Arctic has lost more than 2 × 106 km2 of MYI—a decrease of more than 50%; MYI now covers less ...

Why Sea Ice Matters | National Snow and Ice Data Center

Arctic foxes have been stranded on shore with land predators, instead of being able to migrate onto the ice. Peary caribou have been observed falling through ...

Evidence for ice-ocean albedo feedback in the Arctic Ocean shifting ...

Analyses of satellite data (1979–2014) and a simplified ice-upper ocean coupled model reveal that divergent ice motion in the early melt season ...

Modelling the impact of sea-ice deformations on the Arctic winter ...

Daily Pan-Arctic sea ice drift from MODEL and OSISAF (OBS) over 2018 ... evolution of Arctic multiyear sea ice over 2000–2018. The Cryosphere, 17(5) ...

World of Change: Arctic Sea Ice - NASA Earth Observatory

Though winter ice extent has fluctuated, satellite and in situ observations have shown that there is much less multiyear ice and more annual ice. plot.

Arctic Ocean could become ice-free by 2030. Why it matters?

Back in the 2000s, an assessment of early generations of climate models found they generally underpredicted the loss of sea ice when compared to ...

Observing Arctic Sea Ice - The Oceanography Society

We give a brief history of Arctic sea ice observations and showcase the 2018 melt season within the context of five observational themes: ...

Understanding Arctic Sea Ice Thickness Predictability by a Markov ...

2021; X. Wang et al. 2022). The pan-Arctic sea ice extent (SIE) has shown a consistent decline for all months since late 1978 (Liu ...

Climate Indicators Sea ice

From 1980 to 1989, MYI represented an average of 41% of the total Arctic sea ice area, but this figure has reduced to 27% over the past 10 years ...

Sea Ice Remote Sensing—Recent Developments in Methods and ...

3) observations from satellite microwave radiometers are the primary data source for monitoring sea ice extent in the polar regions. Long-term ...

Arctic sea ice surviving the summer melt: interannual variability and ...

The time-of-occurrence of the LTM averaged over the perennial ice pack increased by 8 days from around 11 to 19 August, indicating a later ending of the melt ...

Global warming leading to alarming recession of the Arctic sea-ice ...

Arctic sea-ice declined rapidly in the boreal summer (-10.2 ± 0.8 %decade−1) during 1979–2018, while, the highest decline in sea-ice extent (SIE) ...

Assessment of Arctic sea ice and surface climate conditions in nine ...

In predicting climate evolution, ensembles of coupled climate models have demonstrated appreciable accuracy in simulating sea-ice area trends ...

new study finds multiyear Arctic sea ice is getting thinner

The fact that multiyear sea ice got thinner between 2018 and 2021 as documented by a new study, is ultimately good news for polar bears: ...

Sea ice algal evolution in a warmer Arctic - CMCC Foundation

By using model outputs at the highest available temporal resolution, the authors found almost linear physical changes along latitudes, such as ...

Reducing spread in climate model projections of a September ice ...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC AR4) concluded that “Arctic sea ice responds sensitively to warming, … late-summer ...

Coupled variability of Arctic Ocean sea ice volume and multiyear sea...

We observe an increased number of ecosystem drivers with larger implications for the ecological and human communities they touch than are quantifiable in the ...

Model - Polar Science Center - University of Washington

A Pan-Arctic Ice-Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) is used for this project. PIOMAS is a coupled Parallel Ocean and sea Ice Model (POIM, ...

Evolution of Melt Pond Fraction and Depth on Multiyear Ice in 2020 ...

Observations reveal end of summer Arctic sea ice extent is declining at an accelerating rate. Model projections underestimate this decline and continue to ...

The Arctic's sea ice cover: trends, variability, predictability ... - PubMed

In sharp contrast to the Arctic, Antarctic sea ice extent, while highly variable, has increased slightly over the period of satellite observations. The reasons ...