• The emergence of modern sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean 

      Knies, Jochen; Cabedo-Sanz, Patricia; Belt, Simon T.; Baranwal, Soma; Fietz, Susanne; Rosell-Melé, Antoni (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014-11-28)
      Arctic sea ice coverage is shrinking in response to global climate change and summer ice-free conditions in the Arctic Ocean are predicted by the end of the century. The validity of this prediction could potentially be tested through the reconstruction of the climate of the Pliocene epoch (5.33–2.58 million years ago), an analogue of a future warmer Earth. Here we show that, in the Eurasian sector ...
    • Sea-ice dynamics in an Arctic coastal polynya during the past 6500 years 

      Knies, Jochen; Pathirana, Irene Dorothea; Cabedo-Sanz, Patricia; Banica, Ana; Fabian, Karl; Rasmussen, Tine Lander; Forwick, Matthias; Belt, Simon T. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-12-23)
      The production of high-salinity brines during sea-ice freezing in circum-arctic coastal polynyas is thought to be part of northern deep water formation as it supplies additional dense waters to the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation system. To better predict the effect of possible future summer ice-free conditions in the Arctic Ocean on global climate, it is important to improve our ...