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Will the expanding Arctic ocean have a vortex?

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The warm air temperatures will slow down sea ice growth, and strong winds will push it around, breaking it up in places – as happened north of Greenland earlier this week. Open water where ... Research suggests that the polar vortex has become “wavier” as a result of this weakening. read more

The Beaufort Gyre stores freshwater but part of it "leaks" out into the Atlantic Ocean. An ice free Arctic carries with it an attendant increase in the amount of freshwater in the basin. Were the amount of freshwater released were to increase, the position and strength of the North Atlantic current would likely change. read more