Is warmer water from the Atlantic flowing into the Arctic Ocean?

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I saw this article in this week's issue of Science. It's interesting - I had asked a similar question and got some good answers:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Appuq...

The warmer waters from the Atlantic probably would help to explain the sea ice loss, but what about over waters over Russia, for instance? Didn't the Northeast Passage clear this past summer as well?

Not that it's necessarily correct to compare one year, but perhaps there is another current that runs North from the Pacific, or at least the warming from Atlantic inflow has an indirect effect on the eastern sea ice. I'm not familiar with the predominant currents or ocean dynamics.

Thanks for the links liberal,what is happening in the Arctic fascinates me.kinda like the canary in the coal mine.

I would like to know more about what Raj made mention of as well.As I understand it we are experiencing a negative North Atlantic Oscillation again this winter,only the sixth in a hundred years,two in the last two years.The negative being the difference between the Icelandic Low and the Azores High.So what are the effects of the warmer waters moving north and does this mean that colder,snowy winters will become the normal for the east coast of North America.

Sorry more questions than answers.Thanks all for the information.

It seems reasonable, they also say air temperatures in Greenland have risen 7 F in the past several decades. That also fits with other articles that say the warming in the Arctic is causing the Atlantic Oscillation to loop further South into the US.

The air born ash from the Iceland volcano make contributions to the extreme chilly via scuffling with lots of the wintry climate solar's Radiation from hitting the Earth's floor. the unusual pass of air might additionally be more suitable via alterations in temperature between zones the place the ash reason dimming and zones the place that is not.

Armchair physics.

Very specific conclusions based on scant data and unfounded postulates.

I wouldn't hang my hat on those conclusions.