MacKinnon says Arctic sea ice could be gone by next year and only develop during the winter months.
Researchers specifically created tools for this mission and study at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
SAN DIEGO — Scripps Oceanography researchers say "heat bombs" are destroying the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean.
News 8 spoke with lead scientist Jennifer MacKinnon who led Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers and an international team to the Arctic Ocean for the study.
The study appears in the journal Nature Communications.
The Arctic is an unusual ocean
Given that the influx of warm Pacific origin water has been growing over the past decade or so, this work adds to a growing body of evidence that Arctic sea ice, a source of global climate stability, could disappear for large portions of the year.
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Observations show that the heat content of the sub-surface PSW within the BG has nearly doubled over the last 30 years(15). If all this heat were turbulently mixed upwards, it could melt more than a meter of sea ice(15).
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