Sentences with phrase «end of the summer melt season»
Climate change is pushing temperatures up most rapidly in the polar regions and left the extent of Arctic sea ice at 1.79 million square miles at the end of the summer melt season.
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The volume of sea ice left at the end of the summer melt season seems to vary more from year to year than had perhaps been previously appreciated; after declining for several years, sea ice volume shot up after the unusually cool summer of 2013, the data revealed.
In particular, good agreement was found for low - salinity regions of the Arctic Ocean at the end of the summer melt season, for which on - location data are sparse.
Arctic sea ice extent set a new record low at the end of the summer melt season on September 16, 2012.
For an alpine glacier to have an equilibrium balance it typically must have upwards of 60 % of its area in the accumulation zone at the end of the summer melt season.
Climate change is pushing temperatures up most rapidly in the polar regions and left the extent of Arctic sea ice at 1.79 million square miles at the end of the summer melt season.
That makes it harder to predict how much ice will be left at the end of the summer melt season in September.
The sea ice minimum occurs at the end of the summer melting season.
Of the 15 million square kilometers (5.8 million square miles) of sea ice that exist during winter, on average, 7 million square kilometers (2.7 million square miles) remain at the end of the summer melt season.