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#climate Icy meltwater pooling in Arctic Ocean: A wild card in climate change scenarios: EurekAlert http://j.mp/givbsI A massive, growing...



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Icy meltwater pooling in Arctic Ocean: A wild card in climate change scenarios

Scientists inventory, synthesize 13 years of research on climate change and Europe's marine environment

A massive, growing pool of icy meltwater in the Arctic Ocean is a wild card in future climate scenarios, European researchers said today.

Estimated in 2009 at more than 7,500 cubic km – twice the volume of Africa's Lake Victoria – and growing, the water could flush quickly into the Atlantic with unpredictable effect when prevailing atmospheric patterns shift, as occurred most recently in the 1960s and 1990s.