The rare phenomenon is the result of strong wind and ocean currents.
The strong winds have likely induced vortices, or tiny whirlpools, in the layer of water closest to the surface, causing the water to rotate vertically in small, circular patterns perpendicular to the direction of the wind. In areas where these rotations converge, nilas ice has collected, creating the light-gray streaks amid the darker water, Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist at the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center, said in the statement.
After being pushed across the channel, the nilas ice can be seen condensing into a thin, blue border around the sea ice. Normally, glaciers and sea ice appear blue only when they become so dense that they absorb the longer wavelengths ofand reflect only the blue. Therefore, it is unusual to see this color in nilas ice, which is very thin.
"I'm not quite sure how the sea ice here gets the blue color," Meier said in the statement,"but it's possible the ice got compressed enough to cause that effect."
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