Sea Ice-Ocean Interaction and Their Impacts on Climate

Dear Colleagues,

As the global climate warms, significant changes occur in the Arctic and Southern Oceans. Loss of Arctic sea ice has occurred at least since 1979, while a small positive trend of sea ice cover appeared in the Southern Ocean until 2016, with a rapid declining trend afterwards. These changes in sea ice conditions can modulate the Earth’s radiation balance in Polar Regions, and further induce positive feedback processes. At the same time, internal decadal variability can also alter not only the sea ice cover in the Arctic and the Southern Oceans, but also the interactions between sea ice and ocean. This Special Issue aims to advance the current understanding of sea ice and ocean interaction and its influence on the regional and global climate under different timescales (interannual to decadal to multi-century). This will include but is not limited to how internal variability and anthropogenic forcing will modulate these interactions, how the changes in sea ice will modulate regional and global climate (such as the changes in atmospheric teleconnections, storm tracks, and jet streams), and whether the changes in sea ice can modulate the oceanic overturning circulation.

Dr. Aixue Hu
Dr. Hui Li
Guest Editors

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