Mechanism of a Positive Feedback in Long-Term Variations of the Convergence of Oceanic and Atmospheric Heat Fluxes and of the Ice Cover in the Barents Sea

This paper presents the results of a study of the interannual variability of the convergence of oceanic and atmospheric advective heat fluxes in the Barents Sea region for 1993–2014 using combined (in situ, satellite, and model-based) datasets: ARMOR-3D and ERA-Interim. The convergence of oceanic and atmospheric heat fluxes play a leading role in variations of the area of ice cover of the Barents Sea on interdecadal and interannual time scales,...