Articles | Volume 14, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-403-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-403-2020
Research article
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04 Feb 2020
Research article |  | 04 Feb 2020

Impact of sea ice floe size distribution on seasonal fragmentation and melt of Arctic sea ice

Adam W. Bateson, Daniel L. Feltham, David Schröder, Lucia Hosekova, Jeff K. Ridley, and Yevgeny Aksenov

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The Arctic sea ice cover has been observed to be decreasing, particularly in summer. We use numerical models to gain insight into processes controlling its seasonal and decadal evolution. Sea ice is made of pieces of ice called floes. Previous models have set these floes to be the same size, which is not supported by observations. In this study we show that accounting for variable floe size reveals the importance of sea ice regions close to the open ocean in driving seasonal retreat of sea ice.