Huge areas of ice-free water are leading to massive waves in the Arctic Ocean, according to a study published in Geophysical Research Letters. As the Morning Mix reported earlier today, swells of ...

The first measurements of waves in the middle of the Arctic Ocean recorded house-sized waves during a September 2012 storm. More sensors are going out this summer to study waves in newly ice-free ...

Mercé Casas‐Prat, Xiaolan L. Wang. Projections of extreme ocean waves in the Arctic and potential implications for coastal inundation and erosion. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans , 2020 ...

Scientific studies reveal the interconnectedness of different regions of the planet. Scientists issue alarming prediction ...

The Beaufort Sea, part of the Arctic Ocean, was long covered in a perpetual layer of ice; not so anymore. Now, the area has seen waves 16 feet high thanks to warmer temperatures, scientists say in ...

Because wave action breaks up sea ice, allowing more sunlight to warm the ocean, it can trigger a cycle that leads to even less ice, more wind, and higher waves. (See "Shrinking Arctic Ice Prompts ...

As sea ice retreats in the Arctic, it's leaving more open ocean. ... waves, ocean structure, aerosols, clouds),” all of which interact with each other. The new study neatly shows that.

For the first time, researchers were able to measure waves in the Arctic's Beaufort Sea due to melting ice caused by global warming. "Waves could accelerate the ice retreat," Jim Thomson of the ...

Along parts of the Arctic Ocean floor, currents have driven mud into huge piles, with some "mud waves" nearly 100 feet across. Researchers had thought the Arctic was too calm to produce the mud waves.

Between 2007 and 2021, the marginal zones of the Arctic Ocean experienced 11 marine heat waves, producing an average temperature rise of 2.2 degrees Celsius above seasonal norm and lasting an ...

The Arctic Ocean could see "ice-free" days within a matter of years—potentially a decade earlier than was previously predicted. This is the warning of a team of researchers from the University ...