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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 41, Issue 12, Pages 4316-4322Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060434
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- NASA Cryospheric Sciences Program
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Satellite data are used to determine the number of days having sea ice coverage in each year 1979-2013 and to map the trends in these ice-season lengths. Over the majority of the Arctic seasonal sea ice zone, the ice season shortened at an average rate of at least 5 days/decade between 1979 and 2013, and in a small area in the northeastern Barents Sea the rate of shortening reached over 65 days/decade. The only substantial non-coastal area with lengthening sea ice seasons is the Bering Sea, where the ice season lengthened by 5-15 days/decade. Over the Arctic as a whole, the area with ice seasons shortened by at least 5 days/decade is 12.4 x 10(6) km(2), while the area with ice seasons lengthened by at least 5 days/decade is only 1.1 x 10(6) km(2). The contrast is even greater, percentage-wise, for higher rates.
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