Sentences with phrase «total sea ice cover»
Total sea ice cover on the Arctic Ocean peaked on March 7, satellite observations show, reaching a total area of 14.42 million square kilometers.
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According to the latest Piomas data, a combination of the smallest sea ice extent and the second - thinnest ice cover on record puts total volume of sea ice in November 2016 at a record low for this time of year.
However, even a smaller figure (I had calculated about 0.17 W / m ^ 2 based on your inflated figure for total planetary albedo, but you can check it out) is still significant when compared with the total flux imbalance, which I think is a more informative comparison than an arbitrarily selected change in cloud cover, because it compares the sea ice reduction with the effects of all climate variations that have been operating in recent years..
From the figures I took an average value of 0.45 — but, hey, if you prefer to assume 0.35, that's OK, because it will not change the conclusion that the observed Arctic sea ice melt has not appreciably changed our planet's total albedo, and that a very small change in cloud cover would have a far greater effect.
The region's sea ice extent — defined by NSIDC as the total area covered by at least 15 percent of ice — varies from year to year because of changeable weather conditions.
Aqua measures the total area of sea covered by the ice, and by that measure the 2007 record low was broken for 10 days early last month.
On Sunday, the total amount of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean was 1.58 million square miles, the smallest size ever observed by NASA satellites since the space agency began monitoring earth's polar ice caps 30 years ago.
It also illustrates that the two ice sheets play an important role in the total contribution to sea level at present, and that contribution is continuously and rapidly growing...» 4/2002 -2 / 2009 period covered for Greenland and Antarctica.
Statistics Canada — Average area covered by total (all) sea ice during summer from 1968 to 2010 for sea ice regions of Arctic Domain — EnviroStats — See how clear the trends are in all of Canada's arctic regions: down, down, down at something like 7 or 8 percent a decade.