View on Arctic Sea Ice (IMAGE)

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

View on Arctic Sea Ice

Caption

In the Arctic, there are climate processes that have no equivalent at lower latitudes: the presence of sea ice, altering heat fluxes between the atmosphere and the ocean, and the injection of ocean heat stored deep below the Arctic surface represent a previously overlooked class of influencing factors.

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Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Mario Hoppmann

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