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Title	Greater role for Atlantic inflows on sea-ice loss in the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean
Published in	Science, April 2017
DOI	10.1126/science.aai8204
Pubmed ID	28386025
Authors	Igor V. Polyakov, Andrey V. Pnyushkov, Matthew B. Alkire, Igor M. Ashik, Till M. Baumann, Eddy C. Carmack, Ilona Goszczko, John Guthrie, Vladimir V. Ivanov, Torsten Kanzow, Richard Krishfield, Ronald Kwok, Arild Sundfjord, James Morison, Robert Rember, Alexander Yulin
Abstract	Arctic sea-ice loss is a leading indicator of climate change and can be attributed, in large part, to atmospheric forcing. Here, we show that recent ice reductions, weakening of the halocline, and shoaling of intermediate-depth Atlantic Water layer in the eastern Eurasian Basin have increased winter ventilation in the ocean interior, making this region structurally similar to that of the western Eurasian Basin. The associated enhanced release of oceanic heat has reduced winter sea-ice formation at a rate now comparable to losses from atmospheric thermodynamic forcing, thus explaining the recent reduction in sea-ice cover in the eastern Eurasian Basin. This encroaching "atlantification" of the Eurasian Basin represents an essential step toward a new Arctic climate state, with a substantially greater role for Atlantic inflows.

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Country	Count	As %
United States	10	22%
United Kingdom	6	13%
Norway	5	11%
Japan	2	4%
Switzerland	1	2%
Canada	1	2%
Ireland	1	2%
Finland	1	2%
Spain	1	2%
Other	1	2%
Unknown	17	37%

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Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	30	65%
Scientists	12	26%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	2	4%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	2	4%

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Country	Count	As %
United States	2	<1%
United Kingdom	1	<1%
Sweden	1	<1%
Canada	1	<1%
Unknown	448	99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status	Count	As %
Student > Ph. D. Student	107	24%
Researcher	98	22%
Student > Master	55	12%
Student > Bachelor	33	7%
Student > Doctoral Student	14	3%
Other	53	12%
Unknown	93	21%

Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences	165	36%
Environmental Science	72	16%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences	44	10%
Physics and Astronomy	11	2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology	10	2%
Other	38	8%
Unknown	113	25%

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Greater role for Atlantic inflows on sea-ice loss in the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean

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