Icy meltwater pooling in Arctic Ocean: A wild card in climate change scenarios

EurekAlert: A massive, growing pool of icy meltwater in the Arctic Ocean is a wild card in future climate scenarios, European researchers said today. Estimated in 2009 at more than 7,500 cubic km – twice the volume of Africa's Lake Victoria – and growing, the water could flush quickly into the Atlantic with unpredictable effect when prevailing atmospheric patterns shift, as occurred most recently in the 1960s and 1990s. The situation is one of many disquieting findings captured by project CLAMER, a collaboration......

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