Cascade of extreme events transforming Bering Sea, challenging communities
Overland, J.E., E. Siddon, G. Sheffield, T. Ballinger, and C. Szuwalski (2024): Transformative ecological and human impacts from climate change and diminished sea ice in the northern Bering Sea. Wea. Climate Soc., 16(2), 303–313, doi: 10.1175/WCAS-D-23-0029.1, View open access article at AMS.
May 21, 2024
Unprecedentedly low sea ice cover in the northern Bering and Chukchi seas during back-to-back winters from 2018 to 2019 caused a cascade of impacts that abruptly transformed the regional marine ecosystem, compounding challenges faced by the communities that rely on it.
History of the Bering Sea cold pool extent based on NOAA Fishery bottom trawl surveys (note there are no data in 2020). Credit: NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service
