It is flat and good, with only smallish pieces of broken-up ice lying about, and a large mound or small ridge here and there, but all of it is ice which can hardly be winter-old, or at any rate has been formed since last summer. ...... See: http://markov.ldgo.columbia.edu:81/%28/siberia/alexeyk/mydata/TSsvd.in%29readfile/.SST/.PDO/figviewer.html?map.url=T+fig-+line+-fig showing a major PDO switch starting about 1973, which may have been manifested in west Alaska ...
