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Research article
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30 May 2018
Research article |
| 30 May 2018
| 30 May 2018
Warm winter, thin ice?
Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, Earth Sciences, University
College London, London, UK
National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder,
CO, USA
David Schroder
Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, Department of Meteorology,
University of Reading, Reading, UK
Michel Tsamados
Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, Earth Sciences, University
College London, London, UK
Daniel Feltham
Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, Department of Meteorology,
University of Reading, Reading, UK
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Short summary
This paper looks at the impact of the warm winter and anomalously low number of total freezing degree days during winter 2016/2017 on thermodynamic ice growth and overall thickness anomalies. The approach relies on evaluation of satellite data (CryoSat-2) and model output. While there is a negative feedback between rapid ice growth for thin ice, with thermodynamic ice growth increasing over time, since 2012 that relationship is changing, in part because the freeze-up is happening later.
This paper looks at the impact of the warm winter and anomalously low number of total freezing...
