Summer sea-ice extent in the Arctic has decreased greatly during recent decades. Simulations of twenty-first-century climate suggest that the ice can recover from artificially imposed ice-free summer conditions within a couple of years.
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Serreze, M. Rethinking the sea-ice tipping point. Nature 471, 47–48 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/471047a
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