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The Beaufort Gyre, an immense 60-mile-diameter pool of cold freshwater and sea ice, is “stuck” in a clockwise rotation that should have ended years ago. Its eventual reversal could send massive amounts of chilly water straight toward western Europe, plunging it into brutal winters and disrupting fisheries. | The Beaufort Gyre, an immense 60-mile-diameter pool of cold freshwater and sea ice, is “stuck” in a clockwise rotation that should have ended years ago. Its eventual reversal could send massive amounts of chilly water straight toward western Europe, plunging it into brutal winters and disrupting fisheries. | ||
=====Warming of the interior Arctic Ocean linked to sea ice losses at the basin margins===== | |||
[http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/8/eaat6773 Science Advances- Warming of the interior Arctic Ocean linked to sea ice losses at the basin margins] | [http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/8/eaat6773 Science Advances- Warming of the interior Arctic Ocean linked to sea ice losses at the basin margins] | ||
