Sea Ice

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• Personal Author:
  Meier, W. N. ; Petty, A. ; Hendricks, S. ; Perovich, D. ; Farrell, S. ; Webster, M. ; Divine, D. ; Gerland, S. ; Kaleschke, L. ; Ricker, R. ; Tian-Kunze, X.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. ; Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing (U.S.)
• NOAA Program & Office:
  OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; GOMO (Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing) ; CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences)
• Description:
  Arctic sea ice extent was similar to 2021 values, higher than many recent years, but much lower than the long-term average. Open water areas developed near the North Pole through much of the summer, making the area easier to access for polar class tourist and research vessels; both the Northern Sea Route and Northwest Passage largely opened. Multiyear ice extent and sea ice thickness and volume rebounded after near-record low levels in 2021, but were still well-below conditions in the 1980s and 1990s, and the oldest ice continued to be extremely scarce.
• Keywords:
  Climatic Changes Sea Ice Climatic Changes Sea Ice
• Series:
  NOAA technical report OAR ARC   22-06
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25923/xyp2-vz45
• Format:
  PDF
• Document Type:
  Technical Report
• Place as Subject:
  Arctic regions
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a4548e9b439bb788b484b7e0b3b9758a0ecbb1e775d217b23f8953ac511c9004
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/48539/noaa_48539_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 7.74 MB ]