The transfer of heat through the Bering Strait from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean will accelerate the warming of the Arctic by 20% by the end of the century, according to scientists from A&M University of Texas.
The researchers conducted a simulation of heat transfer through the Bering Strait and compared its results with satellite observations. In their calculations, climatologists assumed that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced in any substantial degree.
It turned out that the simulation very accurately reproduces data on heat transfer through the Bering Strait over the past 70 years and, according to forecasts, the heat inflow through the Strait by 2100 will be four times stronger than previously thought, ttelegraf.ru reports.
Alex Shishlo, Editor in Chief of the European Bureau, Rough&Polished
