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Year on ice gives climate insights

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Donald K. Perovich1, Edgar L. Andreas, Judith A. Curry, H. Eiken, Christopher W. Fairall, Thomas C. Grenfell, Peter S. Guest, Janet M. Intrieri, David Kadko, Ron Lindsay, Miles G. McPhee, James H. Morison, Richard E. Moritz, Clayton A. Paulson, W.S. Pegau, P. O. G. Persson, Robert Pinkel, Jacqueline A. Richter-Menge, Timothy P. Stanton, Harry L. Stern, Matthew Sturm, Walter B. Tucker, Taneil Uttal •
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory1
12 Oct 1999-Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
TL;DR: The Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA) project as mentioned in this paper was not motivated by climate change, and it was not designed to detect global warming, nor was it designed to diagnose global warming.
Abstract: Research involving a yearlong drift with the ice pack in the Arctic Ocean witnessed surprisingly thin ice at the start and even thinner ice at the end. Also, the extent of open water during the summer of 1998 in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas was the greatest of the past 2 decades. As the ice is melting from under your feet there is an understandable tendency to blame global warming. But the project, known as the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA), though motivated by climate change, was not designed to detect global warming. Definitive climate change pronouncements can not be made based on a single experiment.

206 citations