Reasons for the increase minimum Arctic sea ice extent in 2013 compared with 2012

Cui Hongyan; Qiao Fangli; Shu Qi

doi:10.3969/j.issn.0253-4193.2015.11.003

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Cui Hongyan, Qiao Fangli, Shu Qi. Reasons for the increase minimum Arctic sea ice extent in 2013 compared with 2012[J]. Haiyang Xuebao, 2015, 37(11): 23-32. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-4193.2015.11.003

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Cui Hongyan, Qiao Fangli, Shu Qi. Reasons for the increase minimum Arctic sea ice extent in 2013 compared with 2012[J]. Haiyang Xuebao, 2015, 37(11): 23-32. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-4193.2015.11.003

Cui Hongyan, Qiao Fangli, Shu Qi. Reasons for the increase minimum Arctic sea ice extent in 2013 compared with 2012[J]. Haiyang Xuebao, 2015, 37(11): 23-32. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-4193.2015.11.003

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Reasons for the increase minimum Arctic sea ice extent in 2013 compared with 2012

doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-4193.2015.11.003

Key Laboratory of Marine Science and Numerical Modeling, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao 266061, China;The First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao 266061, China

Received Date: 2015-04-15

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Abstract

Satellite data since 1979 show that the monthly mean Arctic sea-ice extent has downward trends, with the largest trend in September. The Arctic sea-ice minimum extent is observed in September 2012. While the minimum Arctic sea-ice area in the following September 2013 increases 60% compared with 2012. The sea-ice increase areas mainly locate in the Pacific section of Arctic Ocean: East Siberian Sea, Chukchi Sea, and Beaufort Sea. By using methods of climatological anomalies and Empirical Mode Decomposition, we investigated the Arctic sea-ice data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, lower atmospheric circulation pattern and the upper-ocean from ERA-Interim data in summer to explain this sea-ice sharp increase phenomenon. Results show that the increasing of the Arctic sea ice in 2013 compared with 2012 is related to the following five conditions: the surface air temperature (SAT) decrease, sea level pressure (SLP) increase, the cyclonic anomaly of wind field, surface special humidity (SH) and surface sea temperature (SST) decrease. All these five favorable conditions for sea-ice increase are closely related with by the ice-SAT, ice-SST and ice-SH positive feedbacks in the Arctic Ocean.
- Arctic sea ice extent,
- atmospheric circulation,
- the upper ocean,
- feedback,

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