Thank you for finding that. Has anyone seen the full paper? The
charts of recent increase in ice loss in the thesis I mention should
resemble charts in the full Maslowski article, I think.
There is of course a lot of interest in ice and current in the Arctic
for the Navy, particular submariners, and much more about current and
salinity changes in the publicly available info at the Navy grad
school.
I can only hope the non-public information is also informing some of
the scientists doing modeling for climate change. According to that
thesis, most of what's available is so because of then Vice President
Gore's de-classification of information. That was a long time ago.
But that's aside.
On the thesis and the Maslowski article -- he says:
Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 8, 05892, 2006 SRef-ID:
1607-7962/gra/EGU06-A-05892 © European Geosciences Union 2006
On oceanic forcing of Arctic climate change
W. Maslowski (1), J. Clement (1) and J. Jakacki (2) (1)
Department of Oceanography, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA,
USA, (2) Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot,
Poland
( deleted email from that -- note, don't email people who comment or
are mentioned here!)
He refers to: " the neglect of effects of processes internal to the
Arctic Ocean. Especially the oceanic thermodynamic control of sea ice
through the under-ice ablation and lateral melt along marginal ice
zones tends to be overlooked. ... We find that the recent decrease of
sea ice cover is in large part due to oceanic forcing.
My question is -- how is this same effect working on the Antarctic
grounded icecap?
I did read some months ago that unmanned submersibles are being used to
venture up under the floating ice to investigate the ice-seafloor
interface.
I suppose such a covert source of increased meltwater would explain the
othewise paradoxical combination of reports of recent ocean cooling but
no concurrent decrease in sea level rise, for example.
Now that's a scary thought.
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