Schweiger, A.J., J. Zhang, R.W. Lindsay, and M. Steele, Did unusually sunny skies help drive the record sea ice minimum of 2007?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L10503, doi:10.1029/2008gl033463, 2008.
Proshutinsky, A., R. Gerdes, D. Holland, G. Holloway and M. Steele, AOMIP: Coordinated activities to improve models and model predictions, CLIVAR Exchanges, 13(1), (Exchanges; 44), 17, upublished manuscript, 2008.
Zhang, J., M. Steele, and R. Woodgate, The role of Pacific water in the dramatic retreat of arctic sea ice during summer 2007, J. Polar Science, 19(2), 93-107, 2008.
Zhang J., M. Steele, R. Lindsay, A. Schweiger, J. Morison, Ensemble 1-Year predictions of Arctic sea ice for the spring and summer of 2008, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L08502, doi:10.1029/2008GL033244.
Zhang, J., R. Lindsay, M. Steele, and A. Schweiger, What Drove the Dramatic Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice During Summer 2007?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L11505, doi:10.1029/2008GL034005, 2008.
Steele, M., W. Ermold, and J. Zhang, Arctic Ocean surface warming trends over the past 100 years, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L02614, doi:10.1029/2007GL031651, 2008.
Lindsay, R.W., J. Zhang, A. Schweiger, and M.A. Steele, Seasonal predictions of ice extent in the Arctic Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 113, C02023, doi:10.1029/2007JC004259, 2008.
Polyakov, I. V., V. Alexeev, G. I. Belchansky, I. A. Dmitrenko, V. Ivanov, S. Kirillov, A. Korablev, M. Steele, L. A. Timokhov, and I. Yashayaev, Arctic Ocean freshwater changes over the past 100 years and their causes, J. Climate, 21, 364-384, doi:10.1175/2007JCLI1748.1, 2008.
Steele, M. and W. Ermold, Steric sea level change in the Northern Seas, J. Climate, 20(3), 403–417, doi:10.1175/JCLI4022.1, 2007.
Zhang, J., and M. Steele, Effect of vertical mixing on the Atlantic Water layer circulation in the Arctic Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 112, C04S04, doi:10.1029/2006JC003732, 2007.
White, D., L. Hinzman, L. Alessa, J. Cassano, M. Chambers, K. Falkner, J. Francis, B. Gutowski, M. Holland, M. Holmes, H. Huntington, D. Kane, A. Kliskey, C. Lee, J. McClelland, B. Peterson, F. Straneo, M. Steele, R. Woodgate, D. Yang, K. Yoshikawa, T. Zhang, The Arctic Freshwater System: Changes and impacts, J. Geophys. Res., 112, G04S54, doi:10.1029/2006JG000353, 2007.
Serreze, M.C., A.P. Barrett, A.G. Slater, M. Steele, J. Zhang, and K.E. Trenberth, The large-scale energy budget of the Arctic, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D11122, doi:10.1029/2006JD008230, 2007.
Polyakov, I.V., et al., including M. Steele, Observational program tracks Arctic Ocean transition to a warmer state, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(40), 398–399, doi:10.1029/2007EO400002, 2007.
Holloway, G., F. Dupont, E. Goloubeva, G. Platov, S. Hakkinen, D. Worthen, E. Hunke, M. Maltrud, M. Karcher, F. Kauker, M. Maqueda, D. Stark, M. Steele, and J. Zhang, Water properties and circulation in Arctic Ocean models, J. Geophys. Res., 112, C04S03, doi:10.1029/2006JC003642, 2007.
Alkire, M. B., K. K. Falkner, I. Rigor, M. Steele, and J. H. Morison, The return of Pacific waters to the upper layers of the central Arctic Ocean, Deep-Sea Res. Part I, 54, 1509–1529, 2007.
Serreze, M.C., A.P. Barrett, A.J. Slater, R.A. Woodgate, K. Aagaard, R.B. Lammers, M. Steele, R. Moritz, M. Meredith, C.M. Lee, The large-scale freshwater cycle of the arctic, J. Geophys. Res., 111, C11010, doi:10.1029/2005JC003424, 2006.
Steele, M., A. Porcelli, and J. Zhang, Origins of the SHEBA freshwater anomaly in the Mackenzie River delta, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L09601, doi:10.1029/2005GL024813, 2006.
Morison, J., M. Steele, T. Kikuchi, K. Falkner, and W. Smethie, Relaxation of central Arctic Ocean hydrography to pre-1990s climatology, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L17604, doi:10.1029/2006GL026826, 2006.
Proshutinsky, A., J. Yang, R. Krishfield, R. Gerdes, M. Karcher, F. Kauker, C. Koeberle, S. Hakkinen, W. Hibler, D. Holland, M. Maqueda, G. Holloway, E. Hunke, W. Maslowski, M. Steele, and J. Zhang, Arctic ocean study: Synthesis of model results and observations, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(40), 368–371, doi:10.1029/2005EO400003, 2005.
Steele, M., The cold halocline, in: The Encyclopedia of the Arctic, Routledge, 3 vols., pp 399-401, M. Nuttall editor, New York, NY, 2005.
Uotila, P., D.M. Holland, M.A. Morales Maqueda, S. Hakkinen, G. Holloway, M. Karcher, M. Steele, N. Yakovlev, J. Zhang, A. Proshutinsky, An energy-diagnostics intercomparison of coupled ice-ocean Arctic models, Ocean Modeling, 11, 1–27, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2004.11.003, 2006.
Polyakov, I.V., Beszczynska, A., Carmack, E.C., Dmitrenko, I.A., Fahrbach, E., Frolov, I.E., Gerdes, R., Hansen, E., Holfort, J., Ivanov, V.V., Johnson, M.A., Karcher, M., Kauker, F., Morison, J., Orvik, K.A., Schauer, U., Simmons, H.L., Skagseth, Ø., Sokolov, V.T., Steele, M., Timokhov, L.A., Walsh, D., Walsh, J.E., One more step toward a warmer Arctic, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L17605, doi:10.1029/2005GL023740, 2005.
Falkner, K., M. Steele, R. Woodgate, J. Swift, K. Aagaard, and J. Morison, Dissolved oxygen extrema in the Arctic Ocean halocline from the North Pole to the Lincoln Sea, Deep-Sea Res. I, 52(7), 1138-1154, doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2005.01.0072005, 2005.
Zhang, J., M. Steele, D. A. Rothrock, and R. W. Lindsay, Increasing exchanges at Greenland-Scotland Ridge and their links with the North Atlantic Oscillation and Arctic Sea Ice, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L09307, doi:10.1029/2003GL019304, 2004.
Steiner, N., G. Holloway, R. Gerdes, S. Hakkinen, D. Holland, M. Karcher, F. Kauker, W. Maslowski, A. Proshutinsky, M. Steele, and J. Zhang, Comparing modeled streamfunction, heat and freshwater content in the Arctic Ocean, Ocean Modelling, 6, 265-284, doi:10.1016/S1463-5003(03)00013-1, 2004.
Steele, M., J. Morison, W. Ermold, I. Rigor, M. Ortmeyer, and K. Shimada, Circulation of summer Pacific halocline water in the Arctic Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 109(C2), C02027, doi:10.1029/2003JC002009, 2004.
Boyd, T. J., M. Steele, R. Muench, and J. Gunn, Partial recovery of the Arctic Ocean halocline, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(14), doi:10.1029/2001GL014047, 2002.
Björk, G., J. Söderkvist, P. Winsor, A. Nikolopoulos, M. Steele, Return of the cold halocline layer to the Amundsen Basin of the Arctic Ocean: implications for the sea ice mass balance, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(11), doi:10.1029/2001GL014157, 2002.
Morison, J. H., K. Aagaard, K. K. Falkner, K, Hatakeyama, R. Moritz, J. E. Overland, D. Perovich, K. Shimada, M. Steele, T. Takizawa, R. Woodgate, North Pole Environmental Observatory delivers early results, Eos Trans. AGU, 83(33), 357–361, doi:10.1029/2002EO000259, 2002.
Walsh, J. E., J. Curry, M. Fahnestock, M. C. Kennicutt II, A. D. Mcguire, W. B. Rossow, M. Steele, C. J. Vorosmarty, and R. Wharton, Enhancing NASA’s contributions to polar science: A review of polar geophysical data sets, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., pp. 124, 2001.
Steele, M., R. Morley, and W. Ermold, 2001: PHC: A Global Ocean Hydrography with a High-Quality Arctic Ocean. J. Climate, 14, 2079–2087, doi:10.1175/1520-0442, 2001.
Steele, M., W. Ermold, S. Häkkinen, D. Holland, G. Holloway, M. Karcher, F. Kauker, W. Maslowski, N. Steiner, and J. Zhang, Adrift in the Beaufort Gyre: A model intercomparison, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 2935-2938, doi:10.1029/2001GL012845, 2001.
Proshutinsky, A., M. Steele., J. Zhang, G. Holloway, N. Steiner, S. Häkkinen, D. Holland, R. Gerdes, C. Koeberle, M. Karcher, M. Johnson, W. Maslowski, Y. Zhang, W. Hibler, and J. Wang, Multinational effort studies differences among arctic ocean models, Eos Trans. AGU, 82(51), 637–644, doi:10.1029/01EO00365, 2001.
Martinson, D. G., and M. Steele, Future of the Arctic sea ice cover: Implications of an Antarctic analog, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 307-310, doi:10.1029/2000GL011549, 2001.
Forman, S. L., W. Maslowski, J. T. Andrews, D. Lubinski, M. Steele, J. Zhang, R. Lammers, and B. Peterson, Researchers explore Arctic freshwater’s role in ocean circulation, Eos Trans. AGU, 81(16), 169–174, doi:10.1029/00EO00114, 2000.
Zhang, J., D.A. Rothrock, and M. Steele: Recent changes in Arctic Sea ice: The interplay between ice dynamics and thermodynamics, J. Climate, 13, 3099-3114, 2000.
Steele, M., Flato, G.M., Sea Ice Growth, Melt, and Modeling: A Survey. In: The Freshwater Budget of the Arctic Ocean, NATO Science Series, 70, 549-587. Springer, Dordrecht, doi:10.1007/978-94-011-4132-1_23, 2000.
Morison, J. H., K. Aagaard, and M. Steele, Recent environmental changes in the Arctic: A review, Arctic, 53(4), 359-371, 2000.
Zhang, J., D.A. Rothrock, and M. Steele, Warming of the Arctic Ocean by a strengthened Atlantic inflow: Model results, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 1745-1748, doi:10.1029/98GL01299, 1998.
Morison, J., K. Aagaard, and M. Steele, Report on: The study of the Arctic Change workshop, Report #8, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1998.
Zhang, J., W.D. Hibler, M. Steele, and D.A. Rothrock, Arctic ice-ocean modeling with and without climate restoring, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 28, 191-217, doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1998)028<0191:AIOMWA>2.0.CO;2., 1998.
Morison, J.H., M. Steele, and R. Andersen, Hydrography of the upper Arctic Ocean measured from the nuclear submarine USS Pargo, Deep Sea Res. I, 45, 15-38, doi:10.1016/S0967-0637(97)00025-3, 1998.
Steele, M., and T. Boyd, Retreat of the cold halocline layer in the Arctic Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 103(C5), 10419–10435, doi:10.1029/98JC00580, 1998.
Steele, M., J. Zhang, D.A. Rothrock, and H. Stern: The force balance of sea ice in a numerical model of the Arctic Ocean,, J. Geophys. Res., 102(C9), 21061–21079, doi:10.1029/97JC01454, 1997.
Thomas, D., S. Martin, D. Rothrock, and M. Steele, Assimilating satellite concentration data into an Arctic sea ice mass balance model, 1979–1985, J. Geophys. Res., 101(C9), 20849–20868, doi:10.1029/96JC01690, 1996.
Steele, M., D. Thomas, D. Rothrock, and S. Martin, A simple model study of the Arctic Ocean freshwater balance, 1979–1985, J. Geophys. Res., 101(C9), 20833–20848, doi:10.1029/96JC01686, 1996.
Steele, M., J.H. Morison, and T.B. Curtin, Halocline water formation in the Barents Sea, J. Geophys. Res., 100(C1), 881–894, doi:10.1029/94JC02310, 1995.
Steele, M., and J.H. Morison, Hydrography and vertical fluxes of heat and salt northeast of Svalbard in autumn, J. Geophys. Res., 98(C6), 10013–10024, doi:10.1029/93JC00937, 1993.
Steele, M. and J.H. Morison, 1992: Obtaining Smooth Hydrographic Profiles from a Buoy Deployed in Sea Ice, J. Atmos. and Ocean. Technol., 9, 812-826, doi:Steele, M., Sea ice melting and floe geometry in a simple ice-ocean model, J. Geophys. Res., 97(C11), 17729–17738, doi:10.1029/92JC01755, 1992.