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The Present Climate of the Arctic Ocean and Possible Past and Future States

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The Arctic Seas

Abstract

The climate of the north polar region is dominated by the year-round presence of the Arctic pack ice, which largely insulates the atmosphere from the waters of the Arctic Ocean. Recently, several lines of climatological research have refocused attention on the long-term stability of this ice cover—a topic considered earlier by Budyko (1962), Donn and Ewing (1966), and Donn and Shaw (1966, 1967). Disagreement over the permanence of the sea ice cover during the late Neogene period remains to be resolved (Herman and Hopkins, 1980; Clark, 1982a) and, while this topic has its own intrinsic interest, the problem has acquired new significance in the context of the possible climatic effects of carbon dioxide-induced warming in high latitudes. The sedimentological record of past ice cover, as well as numerical modeling studies, therefore, provide potentially valuable information on the magnitude of global climatic perturbations that can and cannot be sustained by the Arctic sea ice. These topics form the focus of this contribution, but in order to understand the complexity of the problems it is necessary to discuss the nature of the atmosphere-ice-ocean processes and interactions in the north polar region.

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