Sentences with phrase «shattered previous record low»
Meanwhile, Arctic sea ice extent shattered the previous record low and the Greenland ice sheet saw the greatest melt in recorded history.
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This Year's Arctic Sea Ice Extent Shattered Previous Record Low.
34 (May 2007); National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), «Arctic Sea Ice Shatters all Previous Record Lows,» press release (Boulder, CO: 1 October 2007); Stroeve quoted in «Arctic Ice Retreating 30 Years Ahead of Projections,» Environment News Service, 30 April 2007.
Not exact matches
2012 was the previous record Arctic ice low for this time of year, 2016 has shattered that former record.
The average sea ice extent for the month of September was 4.28 million square kilometers (1.65 million square miles), the lowest September on record, shattering the previous record for the month, set in 2005, by 23 percent (see Figure 1).
Since Arctic sea ice extent plummeted to a record low in September, shattering the previous record set in 2007, much has been made of the fact that sea ice has declined at a much faster pace than what most scientists had anticipated.