The areal extent, concentration and thickness of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean and adjacent
seas have strongly decreased during the recent decades, but cold, snow-rich winters have …

Sea ice in the Arctic is one of the most rapidly changing components of the global climate
system. Over the past few decades, summer areal extent has declined over 30%, and all …

Abstract Changes in climate variability are arguably more important for society and
ecosystems than changes in mean climate, especially if they translate into altered …

Substantial variations in temperature and precipitation have been observed since the first
permanent weather station was established in the Svalbard region in 1911. Temperature …

Sea ice variability over the Barents Sea with its resultant atmospheric response has been
considered one of the triggers of unexpected downstream climate change. For example …

Spitsbergen has experienced some of the most severe temperature changes in the Arctic
during the last three decades. This study relates the recent warming to variations in large …

Current consensus on global climate change predicts warming trends driven by
anthropogenic forcing, with maximum temperature changes projected in the Northern …

Abnormal sea-ice retreat over the Barents Sea during early winter has been considered a
leading driver of recent midlatitude severe winters over Eurasia. However, causal …

Melt ponds on sea ice strongly reduce the surface albedo and accelerate the decay of Arctic
sea ice. Due to different spectral properties of snow, ice, and water, the fractional coverage …

The Svalbard Airport composite series spanning the period from 1898 to the present
represents one of very few long-term instrumental temperature series from the High Arctic. A …