10 Jun 2012

North-East Passage soon free from ice again?

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The North-East Passage, the sea route along the North coast of Russia, is expected to be free of ice early again this summer. The forecast was made by sea ice physicists of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association based on a series of measurement flights over the Laptev Sea, a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. Amongs experts the shelf sea is known as an “ice factory” of Arctic sea ice. The press release of the Alfred Wegener Institute:

https://www.arctic-report.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/AWI-North-East-Passage.pdf

 

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