Sentences with phrase «ice extent going»

While passive microwave data products may not show as much detail or be as accurate «on the ground» as other satellite data, they provide a consistent time series to track sea ice extent going back to 1979.

And scientists can sample ice cores, permafrost records, and tree rings to make some assumptions about the sea ice extent going back 1,500 years.

«The study reinforces the idea that looking at Arctic and Antarctic ice separately is the best way to understand decadal and long - term trends, because it suggests significant decadal and inter-decadal variability in southern hemisphere ice extent going back much further than the last 30 years.»

Not exact matches

They celebrated that night by taking in the Ringling Brothers Circus at the nearby New York State Fairgrounds, broke training to the extent of one ice cream cone apiece, and left the tent at 9, with many a backward look at the three rings going full blast.

The area of the Arctic Ocean covered by sea ice in September, when the annual minimum occurs, was the sixth lowest extent in the satellite record, going back to 1979.

Current ice extent is well below levels at the same point in 2012, which went on to set the current record for the lowest sea ice minimum extent:

It seems logical that any large perturbation in ice extent is going to lead to certain mechanisms — Chris R details a couple of them in # 75.

# 495 Thomas quoted «Watching the Winter Arctic Sea Ice Extent has gone from boring to horrifying in just a few short years.»

Same goes for measuring sea level, not to mention sea ice extent, glacial melt, etc..

Morison, 5.5 (+ / - 1.0), Heuristic Judging by the NSIDC ice extent and microwave and visible imagery, the ice extent seems to be going in the - 1 sigma of recent climatology, and melt pond coverage in the central Arctic anyway seems about average for recent years.

How do you segregate out the solar / upper atmoshperic affects from ice extent effects when both things are going through some extraordinary cycles?

And as we understand above, winter sea ice extent is not going to have any effect because there is little or no sun in the winter.

Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, told the Guardianlast year: «The extent is going down, but it is also thinning... There will be ups and downs, but we are on track to see an ice - free summer by 2030.&raqIce Data Center, told the Guardianlast year: «The extent is going down, but it is also thinning... There will be ups and downs, but we are on track to see an ice - free summer by 2030.&raqice - free summer by 2030.»

I will go through all the comments (morning here in the UK and this was the first comment I saw) but yesterday I asked if you could identify the periods of low / high ice and what extent they might have grown / shrunk to.

At the same time, if the Arctic sea ice extent drop is or isn't caused by CO2 perturbation, it's almost certainly going to perturb the entire Northern Hemisphere climate by enough on its own to be in the category of a Heinrich event.

Go ahead and show us on any of the following: Arctic Sea Ice Extent Antarctic Sea Ice Extent OHC Sea level Rise Rate Global Temperature Drought Incidence Hurricane Activity Tornado Activity Glacial Melting Like my mother use to tell me «Do something useful»

Predictions, an early baby El Nino this coming year, 2014, will fade and 2014 will be the 9 nth coldest of recent years Arctic Sea Ice extent will speed up in the coming months and go through the average to record a positive anomaly within 12 weeks.

I'm still staring at the AMSR - E sea Ice extent graph, which right on cue with Al Gore's proclamation that the Artic ice would be gone in five years (so give Al money noIce extent graph, which right on cue with Al Gore's proclamation that the Artic ice would be gone in five years (so give Al money noice would be gone in five years (so give Al money now!)

The problem is that there is so much politically motivated scaremongering going on that most non scientific people I meet are unaware that warming has not continued to go trough the root and do not know that Arctic sea ice is at exactly the same extent as it was in 2007.

It doesn't look like an unusual finding to me, probably as good as you are going to get if you think GHGs are the primary driver of sea ice extent.

Melting is going on at both ends of the planet, with Antarctic and Arctic sea ice extents reaching record lows in the past year.

Going back even farther, I. V. Polyakov and others examined Russian historical records of Arctic sea ice extent and thickness starting from the year 1900.

The new ice thickness estimates will also be used to improve on - going seasonal predictions of sea ice extent.

In spite of the headline, the press release itself went on to explain how the «unprecedented» extent of surface ice melt wasn't, in fact, unprecedented.

It could even go as low as 50 % FIRST the synchronized lunar and planet cycles will both be descending down to the driest part of their cycles in 2019/20 (this only occurs once every 297 years in Australia) SECOND Antarctic sea ice extent has been trending up to now be at record high levels for the last 34 years.

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory [GFDL] NOAA (Msadek et al), 5.07 (4.69 - 5.63), Modeling Our prediction for the September - averaged Arctic sea ice extent is 5.07 million square kilometers, with an uncertainty range going between 4.69 and 5.63 million square kilometers.

GFDL NOAA (Msadek et al.), 4.82 (4.33 - 5.23), Modeling Our prediction for the September - averaged Arctic sea ice extent is 4.82 million square kilometers, with an uncertainty range going between 4.33 and 5.23 million km2 Our estimate is based on the GFDL CM2.1 ensemble forecast system in which both the ocean and atmosphere are initialized on August 1 using a coupled data assimilation system.

«The 100 - year historical record from ships and settlements going back to 1900 shows a decline in ice extent starting about 1950 and falling below pre-1950 minima after about 1975.»

From the atmospheric temperature rise to the acidification of the sea, from ice thickness and extent to sea levels, we really need to continue to know what is going on.

Well they are predicting 2C tonight in Central South America (Tropics - subtropics) as I have said many times on this site, I believe that the highly significant constant increase in antarctica ice extent and thickness may begin to affect the reach of polar air into the southern latitudes if it happens to be directed in the right direction making it go farther north than usual.

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) / NOAA (Msadek et al), 4.95 (4.24 - 5.55), Modeling Our prediction for the September - averaged Arctic sea ice extent is 4.95 million square kilometers, with an uncertainty range going between 4.24 and 5.55 million square kilometers.

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which is why you will see an increased trend in arctic ice extent over the next 20 years plus, along with net cooling of the northern hemisphere, though by your account of the oceans sequestration of CO2, ocean acidification will go through the roof at the same time.

Comparisons of a sequence of the fifth - generation Pennsylvania State University — National Center for Atmospheric Research Mesoscale Model (MM5) predictions and GOES level - 2B retrievals of ice cloud tops for the convectively active second mission period showed that the MM5 cirrus areal extent was somewhat greater than the GOES depictions.

If we get the same increase in minimum sea ice extent during this solar minimum as we got during and after the last solar minimum it is going to be difficult to claim that it is just a coincidence, the AMO is likely correlated to solar radiation.

At the end of the day, whether this year goes down as the lowest or the second lowest ice extent isn't particularly important.

The sea ice extent is going parabolic up!

> «But just don't go and say «There is very high confidence that climate models realistically simulate the annual cycle of Arctic sea ice extent».

Since there is still likely another month of ice loss to go, there is high probability that the September mean extent will drop below 5 million km2.

With current ice conditions at 5.3 million square kilometers as of 27 August 2010 (source: National Snow and Ice Data Center, NSIDC) and two or three more weeks to go in the melt season, it is increasingly likely that the September ice extent will fall below the 2009 minimice conditions at 5.3 million square kilometers as of 27 August 2010 (source: National Snow and Ice Data Center, NSIDC) and two or three more weeks to go in the melt season, it is increasingly likely that the September ice extent will fall below the 2009 minimIce Data Center, NSIDC) and two or three more weeks to go in the melt season, it is increasingly likely that the September ice extent will fall below the 2009 minimice extent will fall below the 2009 minimum.