Warm Winter Cyclone Damaged Arctic Sea Ice Pack

in #kathrynmersmann7 years ago


A large cyclone that crossed the Arctic in December 2015 brought so much heat and humidity to this otherwise frigid environment that it thinned and shrunk the sea ice cover during a time when the ice should have been growing.

Read more: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/extremely-warm-2015-16-winter-cyclone-weakened-arctic-sea-ice-pack

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Kathryn Mersmann, producer

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