Abstract: Sea ice thickness (SIT) is a key parameter of scientific interest because understanding the natural spatiotemporal variability of ice thickness is critical for improving global climate models. In this paper, changes in ...

Abstract: Melt onset dates, freeze onset dates, and melt season duration were estimated over Arctic sea ice, 1979?2001, using passive microwave satellite imagery and surface air temperature data. Sea ice melt duration for the entire ...

Abstract: Recent observations show dramatic changes of the Arctic atmosphere?ice?ocean system. Here the authors demonstrate, through the analysis of a vast collection of previously unsynthesized observational data, that over the ...