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Huge waves measured for first time in Arctic Ocean

2014-08-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Hannah Hickey: As the climate warms and sea ice retreats, the North is changing. An ice-covered expanse now has a season of increasingly open water that is predicted to extend across the whole Arctic Ocean before the middle of this century. Storms thus have the potential to create Arctic swell - huge waves that could add a new and unpredictable element to the region. A University of Washington researcher made the first study of waves in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, and detected house-sized waves during a...

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