Sentences with phrase «extensive ice loss»

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This year has seen extensive losses from Antarctica's ice shelves.

The physical justification for this statement is based primarily on the loss of old, thick sea ice and the increased mobility of sea ice (less extensive, thinner ice is more mobile).

According to Comiso, the rapid loss of sea ice through June 2012 was likely associated with the loss of this first - year ice, which was unusually extensive in March 2012.

Although, it does not agree well with most other measurement techniques, Wu et al's (2010) estimate is still at the upper end of IPCC predictions for ice losses and shows extensive land - ice losses from both Antarctica and Greenland.