Sentences with phrase «clockwise ice drift»

In these high ice - loss years, they found «anticyclonic» circulation patterns — a clockwise ice drift that transports sea ice toward the Chukchi Sea between Siberia and Alaska, and toward the Fram Strait between Greenland and the island of Spitsbergen.

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These result in westerly winds (clockwise around the pole as viewed from below) just above the edge of Antarctica in the region where the seasonal sea ice forms, ie, the west wind drift:

Early in the year, sea ice drift had a strong clockwise pattern (Figure 5a, top).