Fig. 1: Sketch of the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas with sea ice drift pattern and ocean currents through Fram Strait. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Sketch of the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas with sea ice drift pattern and ocean currents through Fram Strait.

From: Unprecedented decline of Arctic sea ice outflow in 2018

Fig. 1

BS Barents Sea, CB Canada Basin, EB Eurasian Basin, EGC East Greenland Current (thick black arrow), ESS East Siberian Shelf, FS Fram Strait (thick magenta line), GL Greenland, KS Kara Sea, LS Laptev Sea, NS Nordic Seas, SB Svalbard, TDS transpolar drift stream (thick sky blue arrow), WSC West Spitsbergen Current (thick orange arrow). The background color shows mean sea ice concentration in winter (January–March, 1980–2018 mean), and small blue arrows show annual mean sea ice drift field in 1980–2018.

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