Freshwater pool in western Arctic

摘要

A strong Arctic wind is responsible for an enormous dome of freshwater in the western Arctic Ocean say researchers who have been monitoring sea-surface height from 1995 to 2010. Using the European Space Agency satellites ERS-2 and Envisat, researchers from the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) at UCL and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) measured sea-aurface height over the western Arctic.