I'm very alarmed.
There is a very important event occurring over the entire arctic currently!
The event is the extreme export if ice thru Fram St. in concert with ice import and bunches of relatively warm P water gushing through the Bering St.
There seems to have been so much export thru Fram, that, the way above normal amounts of warm P water are being
sucked into the system.
I think the entire event is being fueled by wind. I don't remember ever seeing such a persisent strong southerly wind down the Fram. but, My experience in the wind physics of ice movement is basic, can anyone address what appears to be a >1% shift of the entire ice sheet to oblivion is a week?
Then look at the turbulence that the gushing warm P water has had on the north and south Chukchi Sea. Two large eddys are visible where i bet the salinity levels are high and the surface water temp is above 0C.
In the attached image of the Bering St, the yellow areas indicate areas of wind caused import and the blue is the direction of the movement of surface turbulence, i think.
I am fearing that this early melting event can hurt the Arctic as a whole as bad as the imfamous 2012 late season wind event.
The second image is another focusing on the
extreme melting currently occurring in Fram.
td