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16-foot Waves Measured Arctic Ocean Where Once Only Ice

2014-07-31 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: Sixteen-foot waves are buffeting an area of the Arctic Ocean that until recently was permanently covered in sea ice-another sign of a warming climate, scientists say. Because wave action breaks up sea ice, allowing more sunlight to warm the ocean, it can trigger a cycle that leads to even less ice, more wind, and higher waves. (See "Shrinking Arctic Ice Prompts Drastic Change in National Geographic Atlas.") Scientists had never measured waves in the Beaufort Sea, an area north of Alaska, until...

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