Abstract
Arctic Sea Ice Arctic sea ice is disappearing at an alarming rate, a situation with many potential consequences including an acceleration of warming due to a decrease in albedo. Pedersen and Christensen used a suite of climate models to study how sea ice loss in various regions of the Arctic affects surface temperatures across Greenland. They found that ice loss near Greenland has the strongest warming effect on adjacent coastal regions but little impact on the interior of the ice sheet. Sea ice loss in the remote central Arctic has no significant influence on central Greenland. So, although sea ice loss can be the major cause of warming in coastal areas, the bulk of Greenland is much more sensitive to global factors. Geophys. Res. Lett. 10.1029/2019GL083828 (2019).
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