The Role of Ocean Dynamics in the Summer Retreat and Winter Expansion of Antarctic Sea-Ice in the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas since 1979

Sang-Ki Lee1, Denis Volkov2, Hosmay Lopez2, Woo Geun Cheon3, Prof. Arnold L Gordon, PhD4, Yanyun Liu2 and Richard H Wanninkhof5, (1)NOAA/Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, United States, (2)University of Miami, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, Miami, FL, United States, (3)Agency for Defense Development, The 6th R&D Institute-1, Changwon, Korea, Republic of (South), (4)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (5)NOAA AOML, Miami, FL, United States