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ArticleCommunications earth & environment2025

Revisiting the Last Ice Area projections from a high-resolution Global Earth System Model.

Madeleine Fol, Bruno Tremblay, Stephanie Pfirman, Robert Newton, Stephen Howell, Jean-François Lemieux

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Article in Communications earth & environment, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Madeleine FolDepartment of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, Montréal, QC Canada.ORCID 0009-0001-1294-0185
Bruno TremblayDepartment of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, Montréal, QC Canada.
Stephanie PfirmanCollege of Global Futures, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA.
Robert NewtonLamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY USA.
Stephen HowellClimate Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, ON Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-4848-9867
Jean-François LemieuxRecherche en Prévision Numérique Environnementale/Environnement et Changement Climatique Canada, Dorval, QC Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-2084-5759

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Abstract

The Last Ice Area-located to the north of Greenland and the northern Canadian Arctic Archipelago-is expected to persist as the central Arctic Ocean becomes seasonally ice-free within a few decades. Projections of the Last Ice Area, however, have come from relatively low resolution Global Climate Models that do not resolve sea ice export through the waterways of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Nares Strait. Here we revisit Last Ice Area projections using high-resolution numerical simulations from the Community Earth System Model, which resolves these narrow waterways. Under a high-end forcing scenario, the sea ice of the Last Ice Area thins and becomes more mobile, resulting in a large export southward. Under this potentially worst-case scenario, sea ice of the Last Ice Area could disappear a little more than one decade after the central Arctic Ocean has reached seasonally ice-free conditions. This loss would have profound impacts on ice-obligate species.

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PMID39866711
PMCPMC11754091

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