Sea ice response to an extreme negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation during winter 2009/2010

[3] The long‐term annual mean Arctic SLP field features an anticyclone centered over the northern Beaufort Sea, known as the Beaufort Sea High (BSH), and a trough of low pressure extending from the Icelandic Low northeastward into the Kara Sea. Associated surface winds drive the clockwise Beaufort Gyre ice motion, and the Transpolar Drift Stream (TDS), representing ice motion from the Siberian coast across the Arctic and then into the North...