Winter Arctic sea ice growth: current variability and projections for the coming decades

Alek Petty1,2, Linette Boisvert3, Melinda Webster1, Marika M Holland4, David A Bailey5, Nathan T Kurtz6 and Thorsten Markus1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (3)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College PARK, MD, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, United States, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (6)NASA Goddard, Greenbelt, United States