Regime shift in Arctic Ocean sea ice thickness
16 March 2023
Regime shift in Arctic Ocean sea ice thickness
16 March 2023
Authors: Hiroshi Sumata, Laura de Steur, Dmitry V. Divine, Mats A. Granskog & Sebastian Gerland Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, Tromsø, Norway
A new article in Nature shows that the Arctic sea ice regime shifted in 2007 from thicker and deformed to thinner and more uniform ice cover. Continuous sea ice monitoring in the Fram Strait over the last three decades revealed the shift. After the shift, the fraction of thick and deformed ice dropped by half and has not recovered to date.
> Read more in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05686-x > Read the briefing: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00317-5