Anomalies and Trends of Sea-Ice Extent and Atmospheric Circulation in the Nordic Seas during the Period 1864–1998

Observations: Cryosphere

“…This includes, inter alia, connections with the North Atlantic Oscillation (e.g., Hurrell and van Loon, 1997;Johannessen et al, 1999;Kwok and Rothrock, 1999;Deser et al, 2000;Kwok, 2000;Vinje, 2001); the spatially broader Arctic Oscillation (e.g., Deser et al, 2000;Wang and Ikeda, 2000); the Arctic Ocean Oscillation Proshutinsky et al, 1999); the "see-saw" in winter temperatures observed between Greenland and northern Europe (Rogers and van Loon, 1979); and an interdecadal Arctic climate cycle (Mysak et al, 1990;Mysak and Power, 1992).…”

Modeling the temperature evolution of Svalbard permafrost during the 20th and 21st century

“…Svalbard Airport is situated at the coast, and its air temperature, especially during winter, is largely affected by sea ice cover. The station is highly sensitive to the coupled sea ice-ocean-atmosphere system (Benestad et al, 2002) and recently observed shrinkage in Arctic sea-ice cover (Vinje, 2001;Stroeve et al, 2007) suggests that larger differences may be expected further inland e.g. at Endalen, Gruvefjellet and Janssonhaugen today than previously (O.…”

Atlantic Water advection to the eastern Fram Strait — Multiproxy evidence for late Holocene variability

“…Indeed, historical observations from the archipelago corroborate a sea ice-dominated regime in the Fram Strait during the late LIA (e.g., Divine and Dick, 2006). For the period before 1920 AD sea ice reconstructions by Vinje (1999Vinje ( , 2001 showed intervals of heavy sea ice interrupted by periods of modest sea ice conditions. A possible impact of glacial melt water is supported by the comparison between mixing lines of modern water in the WSC (see 3.)…”