Will that wind in the Beaufort sea create big enough waves to destroy the last remainder of the Beaufort scorpion tail? Or is the freshwater there too cold for that?
Thinking same here. Waves about 2 - 2.5 m are starting to hit the area today. And then between Sunday to Tuesday similar or even larger waves forecasted. Picture - today's wave forecast in about three hours.
Yes, right now we'd very much enjoy knowing as much about heat content as possible, both Arctic as a whole and specific areas we're most interested regarding further ice loss in particular. Some further loss will definitely happen, of course - together with some refreeze in other areas in the same time. We'd very much like to know how intensive remaining melt processes would be.
Yet, last few pages of this topic has no "heat content" discussion whatsoever.
Perhaps one interesting piece to begin this discussion - is this paper:
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/8/eaat6773.full . As you can see right from the abstract, involved changes are massive, and their causes are likely to be especially pronounced during exactly this melt season (2020), with all the high pressure pounding we had for weeks of nearly maximum insolation.
Hopefully, other posters, who are better qualified to provide good sources of near-real-time data about surface water heat content in the Arctic than i am - will provide current data useful for estimations of what is going on right now.
