Sustained ocean changes contributed to sudden Antarctic sea ice retreat in late 2016

Sustained ocean changes contributed to sudden Antarctic sea ice retreat in late 2016

Sustained ocean changes contributed to sudden Antarctic sea ice retreat in late 2016, Published online: 02 January 2019; doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07865-9

In late 2016, there was a sudden and subsequently sustained decrease of Antarctic sea ice extent. Analyses of observations and a model simulation trace the causes to teleconnections from the tropics on the interannual timescale combined with decadal-timescale warming in the upper Southern Ocean.

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