Speaker:
Jonathan Winfield Rheinlænder (Sea Ice Modelling)
Seminar Date:
20. October 2020 - 11:15 - 11:45
In the last decade, the thickness of Arctic sea ice has declined dramatically with thicker multi-year ice being replaced by thinner first-year ice. As the sea ice thins it becomes more mobile and less dynamically stable, thereby making the Arctic ice cover increasingly vulnerable to oceanic and atmospheric forcing (such as Arctic storms). As a consequence, extreme sea ice break-up events have become more frequent in the last 5-7 years, particularly in the Beaufort Sea region.