Sentences with phrase «ice coverage data»

Not exact matches

The data to assess sea - ice coverage come from polar - orbiting satellites carrying passive - microwave sensors that can see through clouds.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center reports that Arctic ice shrank by 131,000 square miles between August 17 and 21, leaving ice coverage that is well below the 2005 record low of 2.05 million square milIce Data Center reports that Arctic ice shrank by 131,000 square miles between August 17 and 21, leaving ice coverage that is well below the 2005 record low of 2.05 million square milice shrank by 131,000 square miles between August 17 and 21, leaving ice coverage that is well below the 2005 record low of 2.05 million square milice coverage that is well below the 2005 record low of 2.05 million square miles.

His 2011 data show the lowest coverage of sea ice since records began.

Last summer that coverage shrank to 1.67 million square miles, the second - lowest number on record, according to climatologist Mark Serreze of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.

The extent of global sea ice coverage reached its smallest area ever recorded in 2016, new data show.

It also provides data for ice and snow coverage as well as surface moisture.

The latest data by NSIDC for Arctic sea ice extent shows that 2008 ice coverage has fallen to 2007 levels for the end of May:

Drawing on Hadley Centre Sea Ice and Sea Temperature data from 1953 to 1978 and the National Snow and Ice Data Center's Sea Ice Index from 1979 to 2015, the researchers computed 30 - year running averages of September sea ice coverage — that is, they computed averages for the years 1953 — 83, 1954 — 84, 1955 — 85, and so Ice and Sea Temperature data from 1953 to 1978 and the National Snow and Ice Data Center's Sea Ice Index from 1979 to 2015, the researchers computed 30 - year running averages of September sea ice coverage — that is, they computed averages for the years 1953 — 83, 1954 — 84, 1955 — 85, and sodata from 1953 to 1978 and the National Snow and Ice Data Center's Sea Ice Index from 1979 to 2015, the researchers computed 30 - year running averages of September sea ice coverage — that is, they computed averages for the years 1953 — 83, 1954 — 84, 1955 — 85, and so Ice Data Center's Sea Ice Index from 1979 to 2015, the researchers computed 30 - year running averages of September sea ice coverage — that is, they computed averages for the years 1953 — 83, 1954 — 84, 1955 — 85, and soData Center's Sea Ice Index from 1979 to 2015, the researchers computed 30 - year running averages of September sea ice coverage — that is, they computed averages for the years 1953 — 83, 1954 — 84, 1955 — 85, and so Ice Index from 1979 to 2015, the researchers computed 30 - year running averages of September sea ice coverage — that is, they computed averages for the years 1953 — 83, 1954 — 84, 1955 — 85, and so ice coverage — that is, they computed averages for the years 1953 — 83, 1954 — 84, 1955 — 85, and so on.

I have gotten use to EC's presentation and found the NOAA's ice coverage a day late and a dollar short; ie, blank when EC has data.

The problem with this obsessive focusing on one single data point out of 365, is that there is a lot of short term, weather driven variability that can affect the exact timing and size of the minimum in ice coverage.

This is one reason why GISS does not currently use SST data in the seasonal ice region above 75N, even when this data is seasonally available (as is increasingly the case due to diminishing trends in ice extent and better coverage due to satellite data).

BBC News reports that data from Europe's Cryosat spacecraft shows that Arctic sea ice coverage was nearly 9,000 cubic kilometers (2,100 cubic miles) by the end of this year's melting season, up from about 6,000 cubic kilometers (1,400 cubic miles) during the same time last year.

The SH sea ice data are reliable since 1979, but suffer from poor observational coverage before 1979, and revert to climatology before 1974.

According to that paper, the Fairbanks facility receives data that allows scientists to monitor volcano activity, sea ice coverage, deforestation, and glacier retreat.

That might have changed this week with the coverage of announcement of «Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms: Evidence from Paleoclimate Data, Climate Modeling, and Modern Observations that 2 °C Global Warming is Highly Dangerous» by James Hansen and 16 other eminent scientists.

(2) Jeff Id's analysis of sea ice data showed no increase of ice coverage during the past 30 years.

Despite its areas of inaccuracy, near - real - time data are still useful for assessing changes in sea ice coverage, particularly when averaged over an entire month.

The point is that, objectively speaking, based on actual data, not model data or nursery stories, the total global sea ice coverage is currently above average.