Sea Ice and Polar Climate Change

Dear Colleagues,

Due to the warming of the climate, polar sea ice has started to change at an accelerated pace in recent decades. Both atmospheric and oceanic forcing have contributed to these changes in sea ice at both interannual and multidecadal time scales. However, the varying scale of temporal changes in response to climate change remains unclear.

Different tools and techniques (remote sensing, modeling, AI et al.) can be employed to determine the mechanism driving the changes in Arctic/Antarctic sea ice at interannual, decadal, and multidecadal time scales. Scholars have increasingly assessed these changes in polar sea ice based on observations from multiple remote sensing platforms, evaluated the thermodynamic and dynamic mechanisms based on sophisticated coupled models, and advanced the field of sea ice forecasting using new AI models.

This Special Issue aims to publish insightful research regarding Arctic and/or Antarctic sea ice changes in the context of climate change. We also welcome the submission of relevant studies related to field observations, remote sensing, modeling, and AI simulations. The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• The identification of dynamic and thermodynamic mechanisms implicated in polar sea ice changes;
• The development of ice–ocean/air–ice–ocean coupled models to simulate polar sea ice changes;
• Advances in techniques for polar sea ice retrieval using multiple remote sensing data;
• Improvements in the multi-temporal monitoring of sea ice evolution, including (but not limited to) sea ice loss and volume and drift velocity variations;
• The use of remote sensing, AI, and coupled models to study the impacts of climate change on sea ice;
• The evaluation of sea ice variations at various time scales (interannual-to-decadal) in response to a warming climate;
• The role of large-scale atmospheric circulation in modulating polar sea ice changes;
• The ability of poleward ocean heat transport to increase the polar air temperature;
• The integration/merging of new sea ice products from different remote sensing sources;
• The effect of polar sea ice changes on mid-latitude weather and climates;
• The association between tropical ocean variations and polar sea ice changes;
• The forces driving rapid changes in Arctic multiyear sea ice.

Dr. Haibo Bi
Prof. Dr. Zhuoqi Chen
Dr. Xi Liang
Guest Editors

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• polar sea ice
• remote sensing
• ice–air–ocean interactions
• dynamic and thermodynamic
• driving mechanisms
• sea ice modelling
• sea ice forecasting
• sea ice feedback to mid-latitude weathers