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| | ScienceDaily: Winds, Ice Motion Root Cause Of Decline In Sea Ice, Not Warmer Temperatures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Winds, Ice Motion Root Cause Of Decline In Sea Ice, Not Warmer Temperatures |
 | | Rigor and John M. Wallace, UW professor of atmospheric sciences, say the extreme high caused winds at the surface to circulate in ways that blew most of the thicker, older ice out of the Arctic Ocean into the Atlantic. |
 | | At the same time, changes in surface winds started causing the already thin ice to re-circulate back to the Alaska coast more quickly, decreasing the time it had to thicken before another melt season started. |
| www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2004/12/041220010410.htm (2075 words) |
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