Other areas of reduced sea ice cover are the Southern Ocean north of Dronning Maud Land, and the area west of the Ross Sea and north of Wilkes Land. (nsidc.org)
What the researchers did was to feed the computer with data, gradually reducing the sea ice cover in the eastern Arctic from 100 percent to 1 percent in order to analyse the relative sensitivity of wintertime atmospheric circulation. (pik-potsdam.de)
The effort takes a holistic look at the «new normal» Pacific Arctic of the last decade, which now has a longer open - water season with reduced sea ice thickness and extent, increased primary production, and observed changes in abundance and behavior of Arctic species. (arcus.org)