Dmitrenko, I. A., Polyakov, I. V., Kirillov, S. A., Timokhov, L. A., Frolov, I. E., Sokolov, V. T., Simmons, H. L., Ivanov, V. V., and Walsh, D.: Toward a warmer Arctic Ocean: Spreading of the early 21st century Atlantic Water warm anomaly along the Eurasian Basin margins, J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 113, https://doi.org/10.1029/2007jc004158, 2008.
Fer, I.: Scaling turbulent dissipation in an Arctic fjord, Deep-Sea Res. Pt. II, 53, 77–95, 2006.
Fer, I. and Sundfjord, A.: Observations of upper ocean boundary layer dynamics in the marginal ice zone, J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 112, C04012, https://doi.org/10.1029/2005JC003428, 2007.
Fer, I.: Weak vertical diffusion allows maintenance of cold halocline in the central Arctic, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 2, 148–152, 2009.
Grotefendt, K., Logemann, K., Quadfasel, D., and Ronski, S.: Is the Arctic Ocean warming?, J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 103, 27679–27687, 1998.
Haas, C., Pfaffling, A., Hendricks, S., Rabenstein, L., Etienne, J. L., and Rigor, I.: Reduced ice thickness in Arctic Transpolar Drift favors rapid ice retreat, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, https://doi.org/10.1029/2008gl034457, 2008.
Inoue, J., Kikuchi, T., and Perovich, D. K.: Effect of heat transmission through melt ponds and ice on melting during summer in the Arctic Ocean, J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 113, https://doi.org/10.1029/2007jc004182, 2008.
Itoh, M., Inoue, J., Shimada, K., Zimmermann, S., Kikuchi, T., Hutchings, J., McLaughlin, F., and Carmack, E.: Acceleration of sea-ice melting due to transmission of solar radiation through ponded ice area in the Arctic Ocean: results of in situ observations from icebreakers in 2006 and 2007, Ann. Glaciol., 52, 249–260, 2011.
Kinnard, C., Zdanowicz, C. M., Koerner, R. M., and Fisher, D. A.: A changing Arctic seasonal ice zone: Observations from 1870–2003 and possible oceanographic consequences, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, https://doi.org/10.1029/2007gl032507, 2008.
Krishfield, R. A. and Perovich, D. K.: Spatial and temporal variability of oceanic heat flux to the Arctic ice pack, J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 110, C07021, https://doi.org/10.1029/2004JC002293, 2005.
Kwok, R., and Rothrock, D. A.: Decline in Arctic sea ice thickness from submarine and ICESat records: 1958–2008, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, https://doi.org/10.1029/2009gl039035, 2009.
Markus, T., Stroeve, J. C., and Miller, J.: Recent changes in Arctic sea ice melt onset, freezeup, and melt season length, J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 114, https://doi.org/10.1029/2009jc005436, 2009.
Maslanik, J. A., Fowler, C., Stroeve, J., Drobot, S., Zwally, J., Yi, D., and Emery, W.: A younger, thinner Arctic ice cover: Increased potential for rapid, extensive sea-ice loss, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, https://doi.org/10.1029/2007GL032043, 2007.
McPhee, M. G.: A spectral technique for estimating turbulent stress, scalar flux magnitude, and eddy viscosity in the ocean boundary layer under pack ice, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 34, 2180–2188, 2004.
McPhee, M. G.: Air-Ice-Ocean interaction: Turbulent Boundary Layer Exchange Processes, Springer, New York, 215 pp., 2008.
McPhee, M. G., Proshutinsky, A., Morison, J. H., Steele, M., and Alkire, M. B.: Rapid change in freshwater content of the Arctic Ocean, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, https://doi.org/10.1029/2009gl037525, 2009.
Nghiem, S. V., Rigor, I. G., Perovich, D. K., Clemente-Colon, P., Weatherly, J. W., and Neumann, G.: Rapid reduction of Arctic perennial sea ice, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, https://doi.org/10.1029/2007GL031138, 2007.
Nicolaus, M., Gerland, S., Hudson, S. R., Hanson, S., Haapala, J., and Perovich, D. K.: Seasonality of spectral albedo and transmittance as observed in the Arctic Transpolar Drift in 2007, J. Geophys. Res., 115, C11011, https://doi.org/10.1029/2009jc006074, 2010a.
Nicolaus, M., Hudson, S. R., Gerland, S., and Munderloh, K.: A modern concept for autonomous and continuous measurements of spectral albedo and transmittance of sea ice, Cold Regions Science And Technology, 62, 14–28, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions.2010.03.001, 2010b.
Osborn, T. R.: Estimates of the Local Rate of Vertical Diffusion from Dissipation Measurements, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 10, 83–89, 1980.
Padman, L.: Small-scale physical processes in the Arctic Ocean, in: Arctic Oceanography: Marginal Ice Zones and Continental Shelves, edited by: Smith, W. O. and Grebmeier, J., AGU, Washington D.C., 1995.
Perovich, D. K.: On the aggregate-scale partitioning of solar radiation in Arctic sea ice during the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA) field experiment, J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 110, https://doi.org/10.1029/2004jc002512, 2005.
Peterson, B. J., Holmes, R. M., McClelland, J. W., Vorosmarty, C. J., Lammers, R. B., Shiklomanov, A. I., Shiklomanov, I. A., and Rahmstorf, S.: Increasing river discharge to the Arctic Ocean, Science, 298, 2171–2173, 2002.
Polyakov, I. V., Alexeev, V. A., Belchansky, G. I., Dmitrenko, I. A., Ivanov, V. V., Kirillov, S. A., Korablev, A. A., Steele, M., Timokhov, L. A., and Yashayaev, I.: Arctic ocean freshwater changes over the past 100 years and their causes, J. Climate, 21, 364–384, https://doi.org/10.1175/2007jcli1748.1, 2008.
Rainville, L. and Woodgate, R. A.: Observations of internal wave generation in the seasonally ice-free Arctic, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, https://doi.org/10.1029/2009gl041291, 2009.
Rawlins, M. A., Serreze, M. C., Schroeder, R., Zhang, X. D., and McDonald, K. C.: Diagnosis of the record discharge of Arctic-draining Eurasian rivers in 2007, Environ. Res. Lett., 4, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045011, 2009.
Rudels, B., Meyer, R., Fahrbach, E., Ivanov, V. V., Østerhus, S., Quadfasel, D., Schauer, U., Tverberg, V., and Woodgate, R. A.: Water mass distribution in Fram Strait and over the Yermak Plateau in summer 1997, Annales Geophysicae-Atmospheres Hydrospheres and Space Sciences, 18, 687–705, 2000.
Screen, J. A. and Simmonds, I.: The central role of diminishing sea ice in recent Arctic temperature amplification, Nature, 464, 1334–1337, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09051, 2010.
Sedlar, J., Tjernström, M., Mauritsen, T., Shupe, M. D., Brooks, I. M., Persson, O. G., Birch, C. E., Leck, C., Sirevaag, A., and Nicolaus, M.: A transitioning Arctic surface energy budget: The impacts of solar zenith angle, surface albedo and cloud radiative forcing, submitted to Clim. Dynam., 2010.
Serreze, M. C., Barrett, A. P., Stroeve, J. C., Kindig, D. N., and Holland, M. M.: The emergence of surface-based Arctic amplification, Cryosphere, 3, 11–19, 2009.
Shaw, W. J., Stanton, T. P., McPhee, M. G., Morison, J. H., and Martinson, D. G.: Role of the upper ocean in the energy budget of Arctic sea ice during SHEBA, J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 114, https://doi.org/10.1029/2008jc004991, 2009.
Sirevaag, A.: Turbulent exchange coefficients for the ice/ocean interface in case of rapid melting, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, https://doi.org/10.1029/2008GL036587, 2009.
Sirevaag, A. and Fer, I.: Early Spring Oceanic Heat Fluxes and Mixing Observed from Drift Stations North of Svalbard, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 39, 3049–3069, https://doi.org/10.1175/2009jpo4172.1, 2009.
Stroeve, J., Serreze, M., Drobot, S., Gearheard, S., Holland, M. M., Maslanik, J., Meier, W., and Scambos, T.: Arctic Sea Ice Extent Plummets in 2007, Eos Trans. AGU, 89, https://doi.org/10.1029/2008EO020001, 2008.
