Arctic History

Below are research papers on the history of the Arctic and its sea ice, from paleoclimatology to more recent anecdotal evidence. Click on the discussion page of a paper to read excerpts, download a copy and discuss the paper.

If there are papers you'd like to see added here, you can comment at the end of this section. Please link to downloadable copies (no paywalls).

Papers are in order of year of publication.

History of sea ice in the Arctic 2010, Polyak et al., Quaternary Science Reviews

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Comments

[D]

johnm33 the arguments herein go way over my head but it's existence seems uncontraversial. http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/lake.html

[Diablobanquisa.wordpress.com]

Jakobsson et al. 2010: : New insights on Arctic Quaternary climate variability from palaeo-records and numerical modelling http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/envs501/downloads/Jakobsson%20et%20al.%202010.pdf

Polyak et al. 2010: History of sea ice in the Arctic http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/oce/mholland/papers/Polyak_2010_historyofseaiceArctic.pdf

Macias et al. Macias M., A. Grinsted, S. Helama, J. Moore, M. Timonen, T. Martma, E. Isaksson, M. Eronen, Unprecedented low 20th century winter sea ice extent in the Western Nordic Seas since A.D. 1200 http://www.glaciology.net/grinsted/Home/PDFs/MaciasClimDyn09barentswseaicereconstruction.pdf

Antoniades et al. 2011, Holocene dynamics of the Arctic’s largest ice shelf http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/10/18/1106378108

Kobashi et al. 2011, High variability of Greenland surface temperature over the past 4000 years estimated from trapped air in an ice core http://www.leif.org/EOS/2011GL049444.pdf

Raymond S. Bradley, John H. England: The Younger Dryas and the Sea of Ancient Ice http://www.geo.umass.edu/climate/papers2/bradley2008.pdf

[Neven]

Thanks a lot, Diablobanquisa! I think I'll start with the Polyak paper.

[Kevin O'Neill]

History of Sea Ice in the Arctic above is a broken link. It can be found in various places on the web, but the version I've downloaded is the entire Synthesis and Asessment Product of which it is but one chapter (Chapter 6). Past Climate Variability and Change in the Arctic and at High Latitudes U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 1.2, 2009