Sentences with phrase «arctic sea ice mass»
It is quite possible that we are well past half - way — maybe at 75 % in terms of loss of arctic sea ice mass.
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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.
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.