Sentences with phrase «similar sea ice trends»

Similar sea ice trends and weather conditions were present during the spring seasons preceding past ice shelf retreats (e.g., 2001 to 2002).

Not exact matches

The trend in declining Arctic Sea Ice (NSIDC) is similar to the trend for earlier Midwest Spring Snowmelt Runoff (mnforsustain.org).

Another NASA sea - ice data set, processed using the other standard algorithm, shows a growth trend similar to that in Comiso's current data.

Unless these nine models share common systematic biases, it is thus expected that the average 2014 September Arctic sea ice extent will be in the range 3.95 - 5.6 million km ², and likely above the trend line (5.1 million km ²), a situation similar to 2013.

The modeled evolution of Arctic sea ice volume appears to be much stronger correlated with changes in ice thickness than with ice extent as it shows a similar negative trend beginning around the mid-1990s.

Also, a recent analysis of Antarctic sea ice trends for 1978 — 1996 by Watkins and Simmonds [2000] found significant increases in both Antarctic sea ice extent and ice area, similar to the results in this paper.

There have been similar experiments with sea ice changes (by Clara Deser for instance), and while there is a negative NAO response, this too is a very small signal, and far too small to be detectable in the 5 years or so in which we have had these exceptionally low summer sea ice minimum, and on top of which have to compete with the CO2 - driven trend towards slightly more positive NAO phase.