A research team developed a satellite-based method to analyze the life cycle of ocean eddies forming along Arctic sea-ice edges. By combining sequential synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images with ...
Michael A. Rawlins receives funding from The Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Ambarish Karmalkar receives funding from ...
The Arctic Ocean, once locked in a vault of thick, old ice, now is transforming at lightspeed. Temperatures there are increasing at up to four times the rate of the planet overall, melting sea ice ...
It’s well established that the slow incremental “press” of rising temperatures ischanging the Arctic landscape, threatening the survival of plants and animals adapted to this unique ecosystem. Less ...
Accelerated Arctic warming is reshaping the polar environment, but focusing only on the impacts of long-term annual temperature rise can miss key consequences of shorter-lived, but extreme, weather ...