Melting polar ice is unleashing stronger, faster currents, reshaping heat flow, nutrient pathways, and microplastic movement ...
Polar sea ice is vanishing far faster than most people expected, and the change is not only visible from above. Beneath the ...
Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water ...
Fast-moving ocean motions under the Antarctic ice act like storms and melt ice quickly. These forces could speed up sea-level ...
AIDJEX review / N. Untersteiner -- A review of AIDJEX modeling / M.D. Coon -- A review of the AIDJEX atmospheric program / C.A. Paulson -- Review of the AIDJEX oceanographic program / Kenneth Hunkins ...
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View across the ocean. With course to the northeast, across the Barents Sea, the German Polarstern research vessel leaves the harbour of Tromsø. In the last few decades, the Arctic sea ice has receded ...
A Dec. 28 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows two maps of Antarctic sea ice dated Dec. 26, 1979, and Dec. 25, 2023. The more recent map seems to show the ice occupying a larger area.
Oceanography, Vol. 36, No. 2/3, SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY: 50 YEARS OF INNOVATIVE RESEARCH IN OCEANOGRAPHY (OCTOBER 2023), pp. 88-93 (6 pages) The Arctic is warming ...
The amount of springtime sea ice in the Arctic set a record low this month, continuing a trend of shrinking ice at the top of the world, scientists announced this week. Specifically, March sea ice ...