Sentences with phrase «ice coverage recorded»

For Antarctica, the lowest maximum extent, recorded on September 12, follows a record low minimum sea ice coverage recorded on March 1 after the summer thaw, he said.

1979 was the year that the great lakes ice coverage record was set that still stands and was not broken this year, but it came within 1 - 2 percent of being broken (~ 94 %).

Not exact matches

In colder waters, ice coverage on the Arctic Ocean shrunk to 1.32 million square miles in September, the lowest ever recorded.

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.

At the moment, this year's annual summer minimum Arctic - wide ice coverage is the fourth lowest on record, with similar low coverage in the NWP, according to information provided by the Canadian Ice Serviice coverage is the fourth lowest on record, with similar low coverage in the NWP, according to information provided by the Canadian Ice ServiIce Service.

The ice coverage on the Arctic Ocean shriveled last September to 1.32 million square miles, the smallest expanse ever recorded and less than half the area covered by sea ice three decades ago.

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

Arctic sea ice coverage is still below average and the previously stable Antarctic sea ice extent was at or near a record low, the statement adds.

Combined with a large decline in MY ice coverage over this short record, there is a reversal in the volumetric and areal contributions of the two ice types to the total volume and area of the Arctic Ocean ice cover.

During the so - called Holocene Climate Optimum, from approximately 8000 to 5000 years ago, when the temperatures were somewhat warmer than today, there was significantly less sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, probably less than 50 % of the summer 2007 coverage, which is absolutely lowest on record.

Although a recent downward trend in coverage is clearly visible by naked eye inspection, Goddard invites us to believe there has ``... been no net gain or loss of polar sea ice since records began.»

And Antarctic winter ice this year had the largest coverage since records began in 1979.

The marine coring record for the Arctic suggests that the Artic has never been (summer time) ice free for at least hundreds of millions of years; you'll have to find the papers and look at the extent of coverage yourself.

It also appears that the sea ice volume continues its steady decrease, and has set a new record low — that story is getting some coverage:

The same sea - ice experts foreseeing a new record retreat of the Arctic Ocean coverage this summer have explanations for the flow between Greenland and Iceland, too.]

Given that this summer's minimum has fallen below last year's and will settle in at the 2nd or 3rd lowest on record, last summer's minimum now appears more as a bump in the road toward continuing lower Arctic sea ice coverage.

The north polar ice pack has reformed, and records were set for snowfall, ice coverage, etc. all over the globe.

Knowing the biota food source relationship to ice and what whales fed on what biota, the researchers were able to take the position of the whale kills from the admiralty records and map the decadal long position of the southern ice coverage.

Among them: ice coverage time - lapse from 1978 - 2006 and 2007's ice retreat (the greatest ever recorded).

Ice coverage in summer 2007 reached a record minimum, with ice extent declining by 42 % compared to conditions in the 198Ice coverage in summer 2007 reached a record minimum, with ice extent declining by 42 % compared to conditions in the 198ice extent declining by 42 % compared to conditions in the 1980s.

The report, led by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, also found that maximum winter sea ice coverage in the Arctic was the smallest ever recorded.

Historical records show that the summertime Arctic ice coverage varied little for more than 1,400 years.

However, now sea ice coverage has expanded to reach the sixth record low, according to AFP.

Arctic sea ice coverage is approaching the record minimum for late October of two years ago, according to the latest NSIDC plot.

As to the Arctic icecap, the Daily Mail conveniently fails to mention that the 60 % increase in 2013 over 2012 still leaves the icecap coverage 20 % lower than it was in 1978, when NSIDC's record - keeping on the extent of Arctic ice began.

Or look at it the other way around: if the ice cover were a record high in late summer, the opportunity for ice growth (increased area coverage) would be reduced, since there would be less open water that could freeze over.

This coincided with record - breaking shrinkage of Arctic sea ice, where total coverage at the peak of melting season is now 40 percent lower than in the late 1970s.

This year, ice coverage has reached record lows for the early northern winter.

Following Steven McIntyre on tree rings, Anthony Watts or Paul Homewood on temperature records, Judith Curry on uncertainty, Willis Eschenbach on clouds or ice cores, or Andrew Montford on media coverage has been one of the delights of recent years for those interested in science.

The Statement also highlighted that long - term indicators of climate change such as increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, sea level rise and ocean acidification continue «unabated», with Arctic sea ice coverage remaining below average and the previously stable Antarctic sea ice extent at or near a record low.

Sunday's Arctic sea ice coverage also beats the previous record of 1.61 million square miles set in mid-September 2007.

Two comprehensive chapters on dating methods provide the foundation for all paleoclimatic studies and are followed by up - to - date coverage of ice core research, continental geological and biological records, pollen analysis, radiocarbon dating, tree rings and historical records.