Trend and interannual variability in southeast Greenland sea ice: Impacts on coastal Greenland climate variability

Moore, G. W. K.; Straneo, F.; Oltmanns, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8959-4938. 2014 Trend and interannual variability in southeast Greenland sea ice: Impacts on coastal Greenland climate variability. Geophysical Research Letters, 41 (23). 8619-8626. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL062107

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2014GL062107

Abstract/Summary

We describe the recent occurrence of a region of diminished sea ice cover or “notch” offshore of the Kangerdlugssuaq Fiord, the site of the largest tidewater glacier along Greenland's southeast coast. The notch's location is consistent with a topographically forced flux of warm water toward the fiord, and the decrease of the sea ice cover is shown to be associated with a regional warming of the upper ocean that began in the mid‐1990s. Sea ice in the vicinity of the notch also exhibits interannual variability that is shown to be associated with a seesaw in surface temperature and sea ice between southeast and northeast Greenland that is not describable solely in terms of the North Atlantic Oscillation. We therefore argue that other modes of atmospheric variability, including the Lofoten Low, are required to fully document the changes to the climate that are occurring along Greenland's east coast.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL062107
ISSN:	0094-8276
Date made live:	19 Nov 2019 13:32 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/525944

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL062107

ISSN:

0094-8276

Date made live:

19 Nov 2019 13:32 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/525944