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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 35, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035672
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- Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad in Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- National Science Foundation [ATM 0318675
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- ONR [N00014-07-1-1096]
- NASA [NNX07AR44G]
- NOAA [NA17RJ1232]
- NSF [ARC-0531133, ARC-0520287, OPP-0352687, ARC-0634097]
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The unprecedented retreat of first-year ice during summer 2007 was enhanced by strong poleward drift over the western Arctic induced by anomalously high sea-level pressure (SLP) over the Beaufort Sea that persisted throughout much of the summer. Comparison of the tracks of drifting buoys with monthly mean SLP charts shows a substantial Ekman drift. By means of linear regression analysis it is shown that Ekman drift during summer has played an important role in regulating annual minimum Arctic sea-ice extent in prior years as well. In combination, the preconditioning by events in prior years, as represented by an index of May multi-year ice, and current atmospheric conditions, as represented by an index of July-August-September SLP anomalies over the Arctic basin account for similar to 60% of the year-to-year variance of September sea-ice extent since 1979. Citation: Ogi, M., I. G. Rigor, M. G. McPhee, and J. M. Wallace (2008), Summer retreat of Arctic sea ice: Role of summer winds, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L24701, doi: 10.1029/2008GL035672.
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