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New research challenges the long-held belief that the Arctic Ocean was covered by a massive ice shelf during ice ages.

For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from the seafloor, paired ...

We present a methodology to derive sea ice type classification maps in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean for the autumn through spring seasons, from 1991 to present. We use datasets from four ...

Arctic sea ice, not a thick ice shelf like what we observe in Antarctic today (above), shaped the far north for 750,000 years. Photo credit: Matthias Forwick.

Seasonal sea ice forms and melts every year creating openings in the ice with open water where life can continue to thrive.

Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment 1975-1976 : physical oceanography data report : profiling current meter data by Manley, Thomas Owen, 1952- author Publication date 1980 Topics Oceanography, Arctic ...