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The area integral of the sea ice thickness in the Arctic Basin is estimated from the measurements of sea ice surface fluctuations at drift-ice stations. The 1970–1990 linear trend is indicative of an approximately 10-cm reduction in the average sea ice thickness over the entire Arctic Basin, which makes 3% of the average ice thickness (about 3 m). Seasonal changes made 40 cm. The amplitude of variations of the average ice thickness in that period is 20 cm with a period of changes of approximately 6–8 years. The observations were interrupted during 1991–2003 and then resumed in 2004. During 1990–2005, the old ice thickness over the entire Arctic Basin decreased, on average, by 110 cm.
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Original Russian Text © A.P. Nagurnyi, 2009, published in Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya, 2009, No. 9, pp. 72–78.
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Nagurnyi, A.P. Climate tendencies of changes in multiyear sea ice thickness in the Arctic Basin (1970–2005). Russ. Meteorol. Hydrol. 34, 613–617 (2009). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373909090064
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