It was
ice extent before it was ice volume.
However, scientists have used historical records of sea ice conditions to estimate sea
ice extent before 1979.
Late season melt or a shift in wind patterns could still decrease the sea
ice extent before the winter freeze - up begins.
Not exact matches
Its peak
extent came in a warm period
before the last
ice age.
An image of an area of the Arctic sea
ice pack well north of Alaska, captured by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite on Sept. 13, 2013, the day before the National Snow and Ice Data Center estimated Arctic sea ice to have reached its minimum extent for the ye
ice pack well north of Alaska, captured by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite on Sept. 13, 2013, the day
before the National Snow and
Ice Data Center estimated Arctic sea ice to have reached its minimum extent for the ye
Ice Data Center estimated Arctic sea
ice to have reached its minimum extent for the ye
ice to have reached its minimum
extent for the year.
The
extent of the
ice in the Arctic has always been very uncertain but, through this work, we show how the sea
ice in the Arctic Ocean developed
before all the land - based
ice masses in the Northern Hemisphere were established,» Jochen Knies explains.
I want to note the early Melt aspect of 2008, which is a match with the late now defunct «big blue» skies which was an extraordinary event of continuous cloud free skies which lasted several months, well
before spring, giving a greater
ice extent at least on the North American side of the Pole, what «big blue» gaveth «big blue» taketh away.....
I've noted his work
before, but it never hurts to repeat that Andy Lee Robinson has been creating effective animated graphs of estimated sea
ice volume (as distinct from area or
extent) that provide a long view of shifting conditions.
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Before the advent of satellite - based imagery in 1973, sea
ice concentration data for the Antarctic are not available, and sea
ice extent data are not readily available for indi - vidual months, seasons or years, although some visible and infrared data do exist for 1966 — 1972 [Zwally et al., 1983] and some undigitized charts reside in national archives (e.g., V. Smolyanitsky, personal communication, 2002).
What is more, in the dozen years
before the survey, the sea
ice extent in the Beaufort Sea, where the survey took place, had actually increased slightly.
For high GHG emissions such as those corresponding to RCP8.5, a nearly
ice - free Arctic Ocean (sea
ice extent less than 1 × 106 km2 for at least 5 consecutive years) in September is likely
before mid-century (medium confidence).
Anyone ever seen the arctic
ice extent completely flat - line for 4 days in December
before?
Ice extent, will probably be the same as last year, as a rebound
before dropping off sharply the following year.
I have never seen the
ice -
extent data
before the 1970s.
Taken together, the data: 1) do not support the summer insolation hypothesis to explain Holocene glacier fluctuations in southernmost Patagonia; 2) confirm paleobotanical evidence for a warm, dry early Holocene; and 3) suggest that some glaciers in the region reached
extents comparable to those of the Little
Ice Age shortly
before 5.29 e5.05 ka.
Before the satellite era there were records of Arctic temperature trends and sea
ice extent.
So, it is quite likely that in the decades immediately
before the satellite records began, average Arctic sea
ice extent was actually increasing, but we just weren't monitoring it.
Before September even began, Arctic sea
ice extent reached record low levels.
Nearly all studies to date published in the peer - reviewed literature agree that summer Arctic sea
ice extent is rapidly declining and that, if heat - trapping gas concentrations continue to rise, an essentially
ice - free summer Arctic ocean will be realized
before mid-century.
The
extent of the
ice in the Arctic has always been very uncertain but, through this work, we show how the sea
ice in the Arctic Ocean developed
before all the land - based
ice masses in the Northern Hemisphere were established,» Jochen Knies explains.
Bosse (Citizen Scientist / Public), 4.1 (± 0.43), Statistical (Same as June) Just as in the two years
before I calculate the value for the September - minimum of the arctic sea
ice extent of the year n (NSIDC monthly mean for September) from the Ocean Heat Content (0... 700m depth) northward 65 ° N during JJAS of the year n - 1.
The increase in Antarctic sea
ice extent has been discussed numerous times
before in this group.
QUOTE: The increase in Antarctic sea
ice extent has been discussed numerous times
before in this group.
Arctic sea
ice melted to a lesser
extent than in 2012, although the total sea
ice extent was still lower than in any year
before 2007.
Before 1979, the data are less comprehensive, but shipping records and other evidence show that the
ice extent has been in a continued state of decline for at least the last hundred years.
Intervals of sustained low
extent of sea
ice cover occurred
before AD 1200, and may be coincident with the so - called Medieval Warm Optimum (roughly AD 800 — 1300) attested in numerous Northern Hemisphere proxy records18, but the pre-industrial minimum occurred
before, at about AD 640 (T3 in Fig. 3).
I did notice in the graphs that a dramatic drop in sea
ice extent is predicted (by CCSM3) to occur around 2030, only to be followed by a «recovery» which lasts about 5 - years or so,
before the decline sets in again.
I think the claim that there are no reliable sea
ice extent data
before 1978 is a lie.
Also, it's Ruddiman's argument that humans already altered the climate to the
extent that we averted another
ice age even
before the onset of industrialisation.
Right now it seems that: It's more likely that Summer Arctic Sea
Ice extent will disappear
before 2025 It's more likely that 2 C will occur nearer to 2033 than 2040 It's more likely that 4 C will occur closer to 2050 than 2100 It's more likely that more people will die from heat stress, disease, or severe clean water and food shortages than extreme weather events.
There continues to be a consensus for continued anomalously low sea
ice extent similar to the values for 2008 - 2010 and below all previous values
before 2007.