{"id":27029,"date":"2024-05-02T21:04:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T19:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=27029"},"modified":"2024-05-02T21:04:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T19:04:28","slug":"mystery-behind-huge-antarctic-sea-ice-opening-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/05\/02\/mystery-behind-huge-antarctic-sea-ice-opening-solved\/","title":{"rendered":"The mystery behind the huge opening of the Antarctic sea ice solved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered the missing piece of the puzzle behind a rare hole in the sea ice around Antarctica that was nearly twice the size of Wales and occurred during the winter of 2016 and 2017. The study, published today [1. May 2024] in\u00a0<em>the journal Science Advances<\/em>\u00a0reveals a key process that has eluded scientists as to how the opening, called a polynya, could form and persist for weeks.<\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists from the University of Southampton, the University of Gothenburg and the University of California San Diego studied the Maud Rise polynya - named after the submerged mountain formation in the Weddell Sea over which it grows.<\/p>\n<p>They found that the polynya formed as a result of complex interactions between wind, ocean currents, and the unique geography of the ocean floor, which transports heat and salt toward the surface. (<em>UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1042891\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">eurekalert.org<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered the missing piece of the puzzle behind a rare opening in the sea ice around Antarctica that was almost twice the size of Wales and occurred during the winters of 2016 and 2017. The study, published today [May 1, 2024] in the journal Science Advances, reveals a key process that had eluded scientists in terms of how the opening, called a polynya, could have formed and persisted [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}