Not exact matches
It is quite possible that we are well past half - way — maybe at 75 % in terms of loss of
arctic sea
ice mass.
Lower Atmosphere is warming, oceans upper layers are warming,
arctic summer sea
ice is disappearing, WAIS and Greenland are both losing
mass annually and the majority of the earths glaciers are losing
mass too.
So the floating
arctic ice is displacing its own
mass of water.
The huge
mass of
arctic ice has been responding to the mexican wave since we started watching just after PDO flipped in 1975.
when the ocean is warm and the
arctic is open, it snows more and moves water
mass from the oceans and adds
ice mass on land and the axis does shift.
The models are certainly wrong when it comes to simulating the rate of
arctic sea
ice loss, or the full dynamics of
ice sheet
mass balance changes.
And, once the summer season is passed, the ever - colder
Arctic air
masses remove even more heat from the under -
ice water up through the sea
ice by conduction into the -25 deg
arctic air.
The most recent calculations of
ice mass balance in the antarctic also do indicate loss of
ice, though nothing close to the changes seen in the
arctic sea
ice and Greenland
ice sheet.