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Big Waves Bust Up Sea Ice, May Be Playing Role in Melt
2014-05-28 19:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Big ocean waves whipped up by storms hundreds or even thousands of miles away from Earth's poles could play a bigger role in breaking up polar sea ice and thus contributing to its melt more than had been thought, a new study suggests. The study, detailed in the May 29 issue of the journal Nature, found that these waves penetrate further into the fields of sea ice around Antarctica than current models would suggest, breaking up the ice well away from the edge of the ice. And previous studies have...
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