Monday, January 25, 2021

Study demonstrates interconnectedness of Arctic and North Pacific on multimillennial timescales

Arctic sea ice is rapidly diminishing due to global warming, and scientists have found that sea ice dynamics have a big impact on circulation and precipitation patterns in Arctic Alaska, which lies at a climatological crossroads between the Arctic and North Pacific Oceans. Recent studies—most of which focus on current trends in the region and on what will happen in the future—have shown that circulation patterns in the Arctic and North Pacific Oceans influence one another.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-01-interconnectedness-arctic-north-pacific-multimillennial.html