At the beginning of the 20th century, two groups of explorers set out across the desolate Antarctic landscape in a race to walk where no man had walked before. The first team to reach the South Pole was led by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. Amundsen ...
sea ice extent The extent of sea ice expands and contracts with the seasons, reaching a maximum in late winter (March in the Arctic and September in the Antarctic) and a minimum in late summer (September in the Arctic and March in the Antarctic). Note that the minimum recorded extent for...
Tropical climate responses to projected Arctic and Antarctic sea-ice loss Article 16 March 2020 Introduction Arctic sea ice area (SIA) has been declining rapidly throughout the year during recent decades with a steeper decline since 2000. Based on a model selection approach applied to Coupled Mod...
which could be responsible for a portion of the larger observed value ofSPFP−LMcompared to results from GCMs. Shifts in patterns of sea surface temperature in the North Pacific have also been implicated as a causal
there is a strong similarity in the four observationally based estimates ofSPFP−LM, and this value is consistent with a subset of the GCMs (i.e., those with the largest values ofSPFP−LM). It is difficult to attach further meaning to this comparison; because of the potential role ...
Our study has focused on Arctic summer sea-ice extent, as this variable has considerably changed over the past decades4. A similar analysis could be conducted with Arctic winter sea-ice extent, as well as Antarctic sea ice. Some work using the same causal tool has already been carried out ...
This study provides enhanced baseline information on C- and L-band backscatter signatures during Arctic sea ice freeze-up season, which could also help monitor the Antarctic sea ice, where new ice is the dominant ice class. Findings from this study should prove useful forthcoming L-band SAR mis...
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the Arctic summer storm is still there. After approximately 48 hours (which is long for an Arctic summer storm) it has weakened some compared to yesterday or the day before, but as far as I can see sea level pressure in the cen
(Fig.5a), which is a factor of three smaller than that of ICEp1, meaning much less heat is advected away from the tropical Pacific. This results in a pronounced (significant) warming in the zonally averaged SST in the equatorial Pacific in ICEp2 (Fig.5b). The change in the meridional...
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