Abstract: ell-established satellite-derived Arctic and Antarctic sea ice extents are combined to create the global picture of sea ice extents and their changes over the 35-yr period 1979?2013. Results yield a global annual sea ice ...

Abstract: Occurrence of the Weddell polynya, a large open-water area in the midst of the wintertime pack ice of the southern ocean, is examined through a sequence of numerical simulations of the sea ice cover. Using mean climatological ...

Abstract: A four-month simulation of the thermodynamic portion of the Parkinson-Washington sea ice model was conducted using atmospheric boundary conditions that were obtained from a pre-computed seasonal simulation of the Goddard ...

Abstract: The Goddard Institute for Space Studies global climate model (GISS GCM) is used to examine the sensitivity of the simulated climate to sea ice concentration specifications in the type of simulation done in the Atmospheric ...