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"At the end of the southern summer, Antarctica’s sea ice hit its annual
minimum. By at least one measure, which tracks the area of ocean that contains
at least 15% of sea ice, it was a little above the record low of 2023.
At the time, I was aboard the Italian icebreaker
Laura Bassi, ironically
surrounded by sea ice about 10km off Cape Hallett and unable to make our way to
one of the expedition’s sampling sites.
Even just a decade ago, sea ice reliably rebuilt itself each winter. But
something has changed in how the Southern Ocean works and the area covered by
sea ice has decreased dramatically.
Our aim was to track the changes happening in the ocean around Antarctica and
to make targeted measurements of some of the processes we think are responsible
for this loss of sea ice. Most likely, this is a consequence of warming oceans
and so we focused on identifying the pathways warmer seawater could find to
drive more melting."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
