The Cryosphere
Faster decline and higher variability in sea-ice thickness of marginal Arctic seas accounting for snow cover
Arctic coastal sea ice thinning twice as fast than thought
Written by Copernical Team Thursday, 10 June 2021 06:10-
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Research based on ice-thickness data from ESA’s CryoSat and Envisat missions along with a new model of snow has revealed that sea ice in the coastal regions of the Arctic may be thinning twice as fast as thought.