Sentences with phrase «average sea ice volume»

Average sea ice volume in November was 7,880 cubic km, beating the previous record of 8,276 cubic km, set in November 2012.

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With a volume of more than 700,000 cubic miles and an average thickness of 4,000 feet, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) holds enough water to raise sea levels by 15 to 20 feet — and it is already sweating off 130 billion tons of ice per yeIce Sheet (WAIS) holds enough water to raise sea levels by 15 to 20 feet — and it is already sweating off 130 billion tons of ice per yeice per year.

At close to 8,000 cubic kilometres (cubic km), total sea ice volume in November stood at just 48 % of the long - term average and the smallest of any November in the satellite record stretching back to 1979.

Average winter sea ice volume over the period, weighted by a loss of ∼ 3000 km3 between 2007 and 2008, was ∼ 14,000 km3.

Aspin et al., 4.0, Heuristic Sea ice extent is greater on 05 June 2013 than a year ago, however ice thicknesses and volumes are, on average, the lowest on record.

On 8th Feb, the 365 day average Arctic sea ice volume was reported as record low @ 13,018 km3.

In that case it is important to have a more precise statement, so I went back to check the reference Journal of Marine Systems Volume 48, Issues 1 - 4, July 2004, Pages 133 - 157 Sea ice from the Kara Sea region reaches Fram Strait from 2 to 4 years (min 2 years) on average, and while sea ice from the Laptev Sea takes roughly 4 — 6 years (min 3 years) to reach Fram Strait»... from the East Siberian, Chukchi and Beaufort seas within 6 — 10 yeaSea ice from the Kara Sea region reaches Fram Strait from 2 to 4 years (min 2 years) on average, and while sea ice from the Laptev Sea takes roughly 4 — 6 years (min 3 years) to reach Fram Strait»... from the East Siberian, Chukchi and Beaufort seas within 6 — 10 yeaSea region reaches Fram Strait from 2 to 4 years (min 2 years) on average, and while sea ice from the Laptev Sea takes roughly 4 — 6 years (min 3 years) to reach Fram Strait»... from the East Siberian, Chukchi and Beaufort seas within 6 — 10 yeasea ice from the Laptev Sea takes roughly 4 — 6 years (min 3 years) to reach Fram Strait»... from the East Siberian, Chukchi and Beaufort seas within 6 — 10 yeaSea takes roughly 4 — 6 years (min 3 years) to reach Fram Strait»... from the East Siberian, Chukchi and Beaufort seas within 6 — 10 years.

However, our monthly sea ice volumes calculated from NRT and standard data agree to within 0.5 % on average, which shows that the NRT data allow us provide users with a reliable operational thickness and volume product.

In the end, total sea ice volume grew by 373 km3 during April, which is the largest increase in the 2007 - 2018 period, almost 200 km3 above average.

All of these characteristics (except for the ocean temperature) have been used in SAR and TAR IPCC (Houghton et al. 1996; 2001) reports for model - data inter-comparison: we considered as tolerable the following intervals for the annual means of the following climate characteristics which encompass corresponding empirical estimates: global SAT 13.1 — 14.1 °C (Jones et al. 1999); area of sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere 6 — 14 mil km2 and in the Southern Hemisphere 6 — 18 mil km2 (Cavalieri et al. 2003); total precipitation rate 2.45 — 3.05 mm / day (Legates 1995); maximum Atlantic northward heat transport 0.5 — 1.5 PW (Ganachaud and Wunsch 2003); maximum of North Atlantic meridional overturning stream function 15 — 25 Sv (Talley et al. 2003), volume averaged ocean temperature 3 — 5 °C (Levitus 1982).

Estimates of ice volume in northern hemisphere permafrost range from 1.1 to 3.7 x1013 m3 (Zhang et al., 1999), equivalent to 0.03 to 0.10 m of global - average sea level.

«Every piece of valid evidence â $» long - term temperature averages that smooth out year - to - year fluctuations, Arctic sea ice volume, melting of glaciers, the ratio of record highs to record lows â $» points to a continuing, and quite possibly accelerating, rise in global temperatures.

Spectral filters are derived from the average sea - ice volume for each...

Pitch of the notes are proportional to the average sea - ice volume for each month.

Record droughts in many areas of the world, the loss of arctic sea ice — what you see is an increasing trend that is superimposed on annual variablity (no bets on what happens next year, but the five - to - ten year average in global temperatures, sea surface temperatures, ocean heat content — those will increase — and ice sheet volumes, tropical glacier volumes, sea ice extent will decrease.

BOTH of Torstein Viddal's WUJA and PIOMASS Annual Average Volume charts (and rant) for Jan 8th 2017 show zero Arctic sea ice in 2020.