Loïc Padovani
December 24th, 2022

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Scientists are now able to monitor the Arctic climate evolution (photo: Patrick Kelley)

Since 1982, the Arctic Sea hasn’t stopped heating up.

According to satellite-based research from the Danish Centre for Climate Research (NCKF), the combined temperature of sea and sea ice of the 58th parallel has risen from around -3 degrees in 1982 to +2 degrees in 2021.

For the very first time in climate research, thanks to the dataset ‘A combined sea and sea-ice surface temperature climate dataset of the Arctic, 1982–2021’, scientific analyses have be able to ascertain data that has remained inaccessible until now.

“It is a scientific triumph that we can now supplement the studies that sporadically cover some of the areas in the Arctic with facts for the entire northern skullcap. Now our colleagues all over the world can plunge into this deluge of data to learn more about the interaction between ice and sea and the changes that have already occurred,” Pia Nielsen-Englyst, who has worked on the project, told DMI.

Big change in Barents Sea
The research also revealed that the combined sea and sea ice temperatures in the north-eastern Barents Sea, east of Svalbard, has warmed by 10 degrees from 1982 to 2021.

Research in the Arctic is still limited, but monitoring its climate is crucial for scientists as global temperature changes are most pronounced there.

The increasing temperatures there cause the sea to rise in other parts of the world and worsen the impact of global climate change.

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