Climate Change in Eurasian Arctic Shelf Seas: Centennial Ice Cover Observations (Springer Praxis Books / Geophysical Sciences)
By Ivan E. Frolov, Zalmann M. Gudkovich, Valery P. Karklin, Evgeny G. Kovalev, Vasily M. Smolyanitsky
Publisher: Springer 2009-08-12 | 166 Pages | ISBN: 3540858741 | PDF | 3.2 MB



In this book the eminent authors analyse the ice cover variability inthe Arctic Seas during the 20th and early 21st centuries. In the firsttwo chapters, they show that multi-year changes of the sea-ice extentin the Arctic Seas were formed by linear trends and long-term(climatic) cycles lasting about 10, 20 and 60 years. The structure oftemporal variability of the western region (Greenland – Kara) differssignificantly from the eastern region seas (Laptev and Chukchi). In thelatter region, unlike the former area, relatively short-period cycles(up to 10 years) predominate. The linear trends can be related to asuper-secular cycle of climatic changes over about 200 years. The mostsignificant of these cycles, lasting 60 years, is most pronounced inthe western region seas.