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Research brief: Warm Atlantic Water explains sea ice melt north of Svalbard

August 3, 2020 5:05 pm Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Warm Atlantic Water explains sea ice melt north of Svalbard

Northwest of Svalbard, north of Norway, an area known as Whalers Bay stays ice‐free in winter despite the negative air temperatures. It has been assumed that this open water is maintained by inflow of warm Atlantic Water along Svalbard’s west coast; however, this mechanism has never been demonstrated quantitatively -till now.

UNSW10: How will the Indian Ocean circulation change in a warming world?

August 14, 2018 5:59 pm Published by Comments Off on UNSW10: How will the Indian Ocean circulation change in a warming world?

This project will use output from a large ensemble of state-of-the-art climate models to examine changes to the Indian Ocean circulation and how it links to changes projected for the Pacific and Atlantic basins and surface winds.