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Sea Ice Growth, Melt, and Modeling: A Survey

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The Freshwater Budget of the Arctic Ocean

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The freshwater budget of the Arctic as a whole can be stated quite simply as: inflows minus outflows equals net change within the region. If the region is defined to include all ice-covered seas, then the growth and melt of sea ice is an internal term that has no net effect. This is illustrated schematically for the ice-ocean system in Figure 1 where net ice growth in the Arctic Ocean is balanced by net ice melt in the Greenland-IcelandNorwegian (GIN) Seas.

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Steele, M., Flato, G.M. (2000). Sea Ice Growth, Melt, and Modeling: A Survey. In: Lewis, E.L., Jones, E.P., Lemke, P., Prowse, T.D., Wadhams, P. (eds) The Freshwater Budget of the Arctic Ocean. NATO Science Series, vol 70. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4132-1_23

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