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Arctic sea ice decline, the Glossary

Sea ice in the Arctic region has declined in recent decades in area and volume due to climate change.^[1]

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Climate change and the environment
Environment of the Arctic
Forms of water
Sea ice

Abrupt climate change

An abrupt climate change occurs when the climate system is forced to transition at a rate that is determined by the climate system energy-balance.

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Albedo

Albedo is the fraction of sunlight that is diffusely reflected by a body.

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Arctic

The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.

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The Arctic Archipelago, also known as the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, is an archipelago lying to the north of the Canadian continental mainland, excluding Greenland (an autonomous territory of Denmark) and Iceland (an independent country).

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Arctic dipole anomaly

The Arctic dipole anomaly is a pressure pattern characterized by high pressure on the arctic regions of North America and low pressure on those of Eurasia. Arctic sea ice decline and arctic dipole anomaly are environment of the Arctic.

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Arctic ice pack

The Arctic ice pack is the sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean and its vicinity. Arctic sea ice decline and Arctic ice pack are climate change and the environment and sea ice.

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Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions.

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Arctic oscillation

The Arctic oscillation (AO) or Northern Annular Mode/Northern Hemisphere Annular Mode (NAM) is a weather phenomenon at the Arctic pole north of 20 degrees latitude. Arctic sea ice decline and Arctic oscillation are environment of the Arctic.

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Arctic sea ice ecology and history

The Arctic sea ice covers less area in the summer than in the winter. Arctic sea ice decline and Arctic sea ice ecology and history are environment of the Arctic and sea ice.

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Atmospheric methane

Atmospheric methane is the methane present in Earth's atmosphere.

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Beaufort Sea

The Beaufort Sea (Mer de Beaufort) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Alaska, and west of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

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Bering Strait

The Bering Strait (Beringov proliv) is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.

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Carbon Brief

Carbon Brief is a UK-based website specialising in the science and policy of climate change.

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Chukchi Sea

The Chukchi Sea (Chukótskoye móre), sometimes referred to as the Chuuk Sea, Chukotsk Sea or the Sea of Chukotsk, is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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The Community Climate System Model (CCSM) is a coupled general circulation model (GCM) developed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy (DoE), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

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Coupled Model Intercomparison Project

In climatology, the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) is a collaborative framework designed to improve knowledge of climate change.

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Cryoconite

Cryoconite is powdery windblown dust made of a combination of small rock particles, soot and microbes which is deposited and builds up on snow, glaciers, or ice caps.

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East Antarctic Ice Sheet

The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) lies between 45° west and 168° east longitudinally.

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East Siberian Sea

The East Siberian Sea (r; Илин Сибиирдээҕи байҕал, İlin Sibiirdeeği bayğal) is a marginal sea in the Arctic Ocean.

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Extreme weather

Extreme weather includes unexpected, unusual, severe, or unseasonal weather; weather at the extremes of the historical distribution—the range that has been seen in the past.

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Greenhouse gas

Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the gases in the atmosphere that raise the surface temperature of planets such as the Earth.

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Greenland

Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

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Hysteresis

Hysteresis is the dependence of the state of a system on its history.

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Ice–albedo feedback

Ice–albedo feedback is a climate change feedback, where a change in the area of ice caps, glaciers, and sea ice alters the albedo and surface temperature of a planet.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.

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IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

The Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the fifth in a series of such reports and was completed in 2014.

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IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the sixth in a series of reports which assess the available scientific information on climate change.

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James Hansen

James Edward Hansen (born March 29, 1941) is an American adjunct professor directing the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

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Jet stream

Jet streams are fast flowing, narrow, meandering air currents in the atmospheres of the Earth, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

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Kara Sea

The Kara Sea is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago.

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Lapse rate

The lapse rate is the rate at which an atmospheric variable, normally temperature in Earth's atmosphere, falls with altitude.

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Measurement of sea ice

Measurement of sea ice is important for safety of navigation and for monitoring the environment, particularly the climate. Arctic sea ice decline and Measurement of sea ice are sea ice.

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Methane

Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula (one carbon atom bonded to four hydrogen atoms).

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Middle latitudes

The middle latitudes (also called the mid-latitudes, sometimes midlatitudes, or moderate latitudes) are a spatial region on Earth located between the Tropic of Cancer (latitudes) to the Arctic Circle, and Tropic of Capricorn (-) to the Antarctic Circle (-). They include Earth's subtropical and temperate zones, which lie between the two tropics and the polar circles.

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Monsoon

A monsoon is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator.

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MSV Nordica

MSV Nordica is a Finnish multipurpose icebreaker and offshore support vessel.

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National Climate Assessment

The National Climate Assessment (NCA) is an initiative within the U.S. federal government focused on climate change science, formed under the auspices of the Global Change Research Act of 1990.

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National Snow and Ice Data Center

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is a United States information and referral center in support of polar and cryospheric research.

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Nitrous oxide

Nitrous oxide (dinitrogen oxide or dinitrogen monoxide), commonly known as laughing gas, nitrous, nitro, or nos, is a chemical compound, an oxide of nitrogen with the formula.

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Northern Sea Route

The Northern Sea Route (NSR) (Severnyy morskoy put, shortened to Севморпуть, Sevmorput) is a shipping route about long.

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Northwest Passage

The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea lane between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Arctic Archipelago of Canada.

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Ocean heat content

Ocean heat content (OHC) or ocean heat uptake (OHU) is the energy absorbed and stored by oceans.

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Polar amplification

Polar amplification is the phenomenon that any change in the net radiation balance (for example greenhouse intensification) tends to produce a larger change in temperature near the poles than in the planetary average. Arctic sea ice decline and Polar amplification are environment of the Arctic.

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Polar bear

The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a large bear native to the Arctic and nearby areas.

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Polar night

Polar night is a phenomenon in the northernmost and southernmost regions of Earth where night lasts for more than 24 hours.

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Polar vortex

A circumpolar vortex, or simply polar vortex, is a large region of cold, rotating air; polar vortices encircle both of Earth's polar regions.

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Qinghai Lake

Qinghai Lake, also known by other names, is the largest lake in China.

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Radiative forcing

Radiative forcing (or climate forcing) is a concept used in climate science to quantify the change in energy balance in Earth's atmosphere.

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Representative Concentration Pathway

Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) are climate change scenarios to project future greenhouse gas concentrations.

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Rotten ice

Rotten ice is a loose term for ice that is melting or structurally disintegrating due to being honeycombed by liquid water, air, or contaminants trapped between the initial growth of ice crystals. Arctic sea ice decline and Rotten ice are sea ice.

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Sea ice

Sea ice arises as seawater freezes.

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Sea ice thickness

Sea ice thickness spatial extent, and open water within sea ice packs can vary rapidly in response to weather and climate. Arctic sea ice decline and sea ice thickness are sea ice.

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Sea level rise

Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rise was, with an increase of per year since the 1970s.

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Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) are climate change scenarios of projected socioeconomic global changes up to 2100 as defined in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report on climate change in 2021.

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Soil carbon feedback

The soil carbon feedback concerns the releases of carbon from soils in response to global warming.

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South China

South China is a geographical and cultural region that covers the southernmost part of China.

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Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.

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Springer Publishing

Springer Publishing Company is an American publishing company of academic journals and books, focusing on the fields of nursing, gerontology, psychology, social work, counseling, public health, and rehabilitation (neuropsychology).

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Sudden stratospheric warming

A sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) is an event in which polar stratospheric temperatures rise by several tens of kelvins (up to increases of about 50 °C (90 °F)) over the course of a few days.

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Taiga

Taiga (p), also known as boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches.

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Tibetan Plateau

The Tibetan Plateau, also known as Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and Qing–Zang Plateau, is a vast elevated plateau located at the intersection of Central, South, and East Asia covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region, most of Qinghai, western half of Sichuan, Southern Gansu provinces in Western China, southern Xinjiang, Bhutan, the Indian regions of Ladakh and Lahaul and Spiti (Himachal Pradesh) as well as Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan, northwestern Nepal, eastern Tajikistan and southern Kyrgyzstan.

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Tipping points in the climate system

In climate science, a tipping point is a critical threshold that, when crossed, leads to large, accelerating and often irreversible changes in the climate system.

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Tundra

In physical geography, tundra is a type of biome where tree growth is hindered by frigid temperatures and short growing seasons. Arctic sea ice decline and tundra are environment of the Arctic.

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University of Washington

The University of Washington (UW and informally U-Dub or U Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Vanishing Point (2012 film)

Vanishing Point is a 2012 National Film Board of Canada documentary film directed by Alberta filmmakers and environmental scientists Stephen A. Smith and Julia Szucs, chronicling life in the Arctic for two remote communities linked by a migration from Baffin Island to Greenland. Arctic sea ice decline and Vanishing Point (2012 film) are environment of the Arctic.

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