Increasing Multiyear Sea Ice Loss in the Beaufort Sea: A New Export Pathway for the Diminishing Multiyear Ice Cover of the Arctic Ocean

G. Babb, David; J. Galley, R.; Howell, Stephen; Landy, Jack; Strœve, Julienne; G. Barber, David

doi:10.1029/2021gl097595

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Increasing Multiyear Sea Ice Loss in the Beaufort Sea: A New Export Pathway for the Diminishing Multiyear Ice Cover of the Arctic Ocean

Published in Geophysical Research Letters • Apr 18, 2022

Authors:

David G. Babb

R. J. Galley

Stephen Howell

Abstract

Abstract Historically, multiyear sea ice (MYI) covered a majority of the Arctic and circulated through the Beaufort Gyre for years. However, increased ice melt in the Beaufort Sea during the early 2000s was proposed to have severed this circulation. Constructing a regional MYI budget from 1997 to 20...

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Ocean gyre

Sea ice

Oceanography

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