Water cooling in the Arctic Sea, November 2018 (IMAGE)
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Researchers aboard the research vessel Mirai watched water vapor rise from the Chukchi Sea, resembling the mist that rises from a hot bath in a cold room. The Pacific Ocean brings relatively warm 2-degree Celsius water into the Arctic Ocean, where much colder minus 10-degree Celsius winds blow across the surface. New analysis by researchers in Japan shows how changes in the atmosphere that raise Pacific sea surface temperatures during the summer can delay the formation of Arctic sea ice months later.
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Photo by Jun Inoue, National Institute of Polar Research, CC BY-SA.
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