Sentences with phrase «arctic ice event»
Not exact matches
But a string of serendipitous events caused me to participate in Alert 2000, an international field campaign organized to investigate the photochemistry of snow and ice during the arctic spring in Alert, Nunavut, Canada, which is ~ 300 km south of the North Pole.
http://www.sciencemag.org/
Seems this might hold for larger scale events, such as the arctic ice melting (i.e., there would be more warming in the arctic ocean in our current times, except some of the «warming» energy is going into the melting process rather than warming).
Was it the IPCC TAR or the AR4 which said a summer arctic sea ice free event was unlikely to happen until the 2090s; the end of the century?