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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-121-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-121-2024
Research article
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04 Jan 2024
Research article |  | 04 Jan 2024

Impact of atmospheric rivers on Arctic sea ice variations

Linghan Li, Forest Cannon, Matthew R. Mazloff, Aneesh C. Subramanian, Anna M. Wilson, and Fred Martin Ralph

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We investigate how the moisture transport through atmospheric rivers influences Arctic sea ice variations using hourly atmospheric ERA5 for 1981–2020 at 0.25° × 0.25° resolution. We show that individual atmospheric rivers initiate rapid sea ice decrease through surface heat flux and winds. We find that the rate of change in sea ice concentration has significant anticorrelation with moisture, northward wind and turbulent heat flux on weather timescales almost everywhere in the Arctic Ocean.
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