Sea ice extent, concentration, and seasonality [in “State of the Climate in 2020”]

2021/01/01 by Sharon Stammerjohn, T. A. Scambos, Ted A. Scambos +66 · 4 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics #Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena #Marine animal studies overview

paper · doi:10.1175/bams-d-21-0081.1

Abstract

Antarctic sea ice performs important roles in the climate system through the formation of dense oxygen rich Antarctic Bottom Water (Johnson 2008) and modulating fluxes across the ocean/atmosphere interface within the high southern latitudes (Bourassa et al. 2013). It also acts as a buffer for ice shelves against ocean processes (Williams and Squire 2007; Massom et al. 2018).

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