Not exact matches
Since the winds generally follow the pressure contours, this pattern advected warmer air into the Pacific Arctic in both the
Beaufort and East Siberian
Seas (Figure 8,
bottom).
Similar to 2007 there is anomalously large
bottom melt in the southern
Beaufort Sea and on the Bering Strait side of the North Pole.
Conclusions: There was an extraordinarily large amount of ice
bottom melting in the
Beaufort Sea region in the summer of 2007.
The ice mass buoys (Perovich) recorded some
bottom melt at the southern most sites in the
Beaufort Sea.
Buoy data indicate that both surface and
bottom melt are underway in the northern Chukchi and northeastern
Beaufort Seas in late June.
However, July conditions greatly reduced
sea ice drift speed in the Beaufort Sea and produced a counterclockwise drift pattern in the Laptev Sea (Figure 5a, botto
sea ice drift speed in the
Beaufort Sea and produced a counterclockwise drift pattern in the Laptev Sea (Figure 5a, botto
Sea and produced a counterclockwise drift pattern in the Laptev
Sea (Figure 5a, botto
Sea (Figure 5a,
bottom).