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ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY
Volume 52, Issue 57, Pages 355-359Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.3189/172756411795931714
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- US National Science Foundation
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
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There has been a marked decline in the summer extent of Arctic sea ice over the past few decades. Data from autonomous ice mass-balance buoys can enhance our understanding of this decline. These buoys monitor changes in snow deposition and ablation, ice growth, and ice surface and bottom melt. Result; from the summer of 2008 showed considerable large-scale spatial variability in the amount of surface and bottom melt. Small amounts of melting were observed north of Greenland, while melting in the southern Beaufort Sea was quite large. Comparison of net solar heat input to the ice and heat required for surface ablation showed only modest correlation. However, there was a strong correlation between solar heat input to the ocean and bottom melting. As the ice concentration in the Beaufort Sea region decreased, there was an increase in solar heat to the ocean and an increase in bottom melting.
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