Sentences with phrase «extent over continents»
Ice extent over continents is shown in white.
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As the penumbra slides under the bottom of the Earth, the partial eclipse is visible in varying extent across the icy land continent and just as it begins to slide back out into space it (just barely) manages to pass over Tasmania as well as portions of New Zealand's South Island.
The notion that as sea ice extent has been increasing for 30 years, showing to all that the Antarctic is getting colder, should somehow mysteriously cause ice to disappear from the top of the continent over that time is like the missing heat in the ocean.
«By contrast, the eastern Antarctic and Antarctic plateau have cooled, primarily in summer, with warming over the Antarctic Peninsula [C3 Ed: approximately 4 % of Antarctica land mass]... Moreover, sea - ice extent around Antarctica has modestly increased... In other words, the authors find that most of the Antarctic continent has cooled, rather than just the Southern Ocean...»
In 2011, annual snow cover extent over Northern Hemisphere continents (including the Greenland ice sheet) averaged 24.7 million square kilometers, which is 0.3 million square kilometers less than the long - term average.