Sentences with phrase «average ice edge»

The maps above show a spatial view of the sea ice concentrations for the whole of the Arctic, with the average ice edge for the particular month indicated by a pink line.

The average ice edge is shown in black.

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Over the current century, the model projects that the average albedo for the entire ice sheet will fall by as much as 8 percent, and by as much 10 percent on the western edge, where the ice is darkest today.

Air temperatures near the Antarctic sea ice edge were near average.

Average distance from land and pack ice edge for live polar bears swimming in open water in 2004 (n = 10) were 8.3 ± 3.0 and 177.4 ± 5.1 km, respectively.

Note that the datasets show different quantities; in the sea ice zone the GISTEMP, M10 and CHAPMAN data represent air temperature (though CHAPMAN air temperatures are inferred from SST input data); north of the sea ice edge the M10 and CHAPMAN data represent air temperature while GISTEMP represents SST; MSU represents tropospheric - average temperatures everywhere.

In September 2017, while large areas of the ice edge were further south than average, the ice edge was actually further north than average in the Bellingshausen Sea, and in two small regions lying roughly due south of South Africa and Australia respectively (Figure 7).

Very warm conditions continued in the Kara and Barents seas, with temperatures as much as 3 to 6 degrees Celsius (5 to 11 degrees Fahrenheit) above average, consistent with the retreat of the ice cover to the northern edge of the Svalbard, Franz Josef, and New Siberian Islands.