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Content: In Barrow, Alaska, climate change in action | NOAA Climate.gov
In Barrow, Alaska, climate change in action
Author: National Weather Service Alaska Region
September 6, 2013
Barrow, Alaska, on the edge of the Arctic Ocean, during the spring ice break-up. More open water near the coast in fall is warming the town's climate and increasing its vulnerability to storm surge flooding. Image Credit: Steven Kazlowsk
Climate change seems a remote thing to many people, something they think about occasionally, if at all. Their day-to-day weather mostly varies as it has in the past, and they have a good idea of what the seasons will bring. However, for the people who live around the shores of the Arctic Ocean, climate change is plain to see. The dramatic decline of summer and autumn sea ice during the past decade is having profound and sustained impacts on Northern weather and climate. In Alaska, nowhere is this more evident than at Barrow. Barrow, Alaska, is located a few miles southwest of Point Barrow, the northernmost point of land in the United States.