Sentences with phrase «ice extent in»

The period of strongly positive Arctic Oscillation during 1989 - 1995 and the loss of multi-year ice set the stage for the large decline in sea ice extent in the past decade.

What was the ice extent in 903AD?

Ice extent in the Beaufort, Chukchi, and East Siberian Seas remain high compared to the 2007 record minimum, however, the overall ice extent could still rival the 2007 record minimum particularly if winds over the next few weeks push the ice northward.

Ice extent in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas remains high compared to the 2007 minimum.

However, Ice extent in the Greenland Sea has reduced substantially during the first half of August 2010 (comparison of Figures 1 and 2).

Updated information about ice extent in this region indicates substantial ice retreat in the eastern Barents and the Kara Seas, where ice is now well below climatological extent (Figure 5), with little change in the Greenland Sea and Fram Strait region, where the ice edge is within the decadal mean range except for the southernmost stretches shown in Figure 5.

Hence, at least here in Germany, there hasn't been much reporting about the recent evolution of Arctic sea ice — despite the fact that Arctic sea ice extent in July, for example, was the lowest ever recorded for that month throughout the entire satellite record.

Hi iceman, Sorry for the tardy reply, that pesky real life thing again...:) The reason there is so little excitement about the record high sea ice extent in the antarctic (aside from it having no appealing potential victims, like polar bears) versus the record low arctic sea ice is probably because the southern record is only a matter of 2 % anamoly, whereas in the north we are now looking at levels over 40 % below average.

The graph of daily sea ice extent for the Northern Hemisphere shows ice extent in the current year, the 1981 to 2010 average, and the year with record low ice extent, (currently 2012).

As you can see, the Mail's «definitive authority on the subject» subject says that «for the summer sea ice minimum» Arctic sea ice extent in fact decreased by more like 12 % per DECADE.

The full range of Outlooks submitted this month lies within the range of the 10 lowest years of sea ice extent in the observational record.

Elsewhere on its website, the NSIDC indicated that the average Arctic sea ice extent in August 2012 was a record low figure of 1.82 million square miles.

While you are gathering ad hom ammunition for your assault on Salby, spare some time to consider the paper about the past sea ice extent in the Arctic.

in 2007, summer sea ice extent in the Arctic reached an historic low.

Despite substantial differences in performance between individual models, the CMIP3 1 and CMIP5 multi-model mean annual cycles of sea ice extent in both hemispheres agree reasonably well with observations.

New data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center shows that the average Arctic sea ice extent in July set a new monthly record low — even though the rate of ice loss slowed «substantially» in the last two weeks of the month.

Given that the northern polar region is dominated by water, whereas the southern polar region is dominated by land, one would expect a greater temperature response to changes in ice extent in the Arctic than Antarctica.

«It is very likely that there will be continued loss of sea ice extent in the Arctic, decreases of snow cover, and reductions of permafrost at high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere by 2016 — 2035.

The past six years have seen the lowest summer ice extent in three decades, reaching the lowest last September at about 3.61 million sq km.

Arctic sea ice extent in September, the seasonal low point in the annual cycle, has been declining at a rate of 13.4 percent per decade.

What researchers have found hasn't been encouraging, at least for polar bears: summertime sea ice extent in 2007 fell half below average for the past three decades.

Updated information about the ice extent in the region indicates a significant retreat in the Barents and Kara seas; the ice extent in the Barents Sea is below the decadal means (Figure 4).

The 2012 Arctic sea ice minimum, on September 16, 2012, reached the lowest ice extent in the satellite record.

Lindsay, R.W., J. Zhang, A. Schweiger and M.A. Steele, «Seasonal predictions of ice extent in the Arctic Ocean», J. Geophys.

Sea ice extent in the Antarctic remains low; the maximum extent for the year is likely to be the joint - second lowest in the satellite era.

Arctic sea ice may completely disappear in our lifetime, according to recent research, which isn't surprising given that ice extent in the region reached an all - time low this year, shrinking to its sixth - lowest level on record.

If you felt so inclined, you could even compare sea ice extent in July 2007 and 2008, to show just how remarkably quickly the Arctic recovered from its historic low.

While all the press is about the observed declines in Arctic sea ice extent in recent decades, little attention at all is paid to the fact that the sea ice extent in the Antarctic has been on the increase.

What can you tell us about the sea ice extent in 1979?

The site writes that despite all the global warming and ice - melt fantasies circulating through the circles of climate alarmism, «Arctic sea ice extent in July 2015 increased strongly compared to a year earlier.»

The sea ice extent in the South pole is comparable to that in the North and behaves in a similar way despite the fact that one pole is centred on land and the other in a basin.

The sea ice extent in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres should therefore gradually decline (linearly) as human emissions rise.

Observed sea ice extent in the Russian Arctic, 1933 — 2006.

At the same time, they point towards below normal ice extent in the Barents / Kara Sea, also compared to the record minimum in 2007, which they see coupled to oceanic processes and promoting further warming of surface waters in the region.

Lukovich and Barber; 4.6 million square kilometers; Heuristic The absence of a distinctive transition in spring of 2009, between cyclonic and anti-cyclonic circulation in the stratosphere (characteristic of years with record lows in sea ice extent), suggests that dynamical contributions will contribute to but not accelerate the decline in sea ice extent in September 2009.

Lindsay; 4.0 million square kilometers; Model The predicted mean ice extent in September is 3.99 + / - 0.30 million square kilometers, a record low, and it is based on the fractional area of ice and open water less than 0.4 m thick (G0.4) obtained from model retrospective simulations.

NSIDC data indicated Antarctic sea ice extent in August was 2.7 percent above the 1979 - 2000 average.

Looks suspiciously like «What is significant appears to be in the eyes of the beholders,» Cap’n — if you're unwilling to turn that around and tell my «skeptical» friends that like the Arctic warming (and the ice extent in the Antarctic), the MWP was not significant.

UTokyo (Kimura et al.), 4.68, Statistical Monthly mean ice extent in September will be about 4.68 million km2.

This is lower than the observed ice extent in 2015 (4.63 M km2) and is lower than the extent expected from persistence of the long - term linear trend (4.66 M km2).

Out of 25 scenarios for minimum sea ice extent in 2008, 24 of them came in below 2007.

«This is 1.24 million square kilometers (478,800 square miles) above the 1981 to 2010 average for the month,» the agency reports, and the highest May ice extent in satellite record - keeping.

Following the record warm Arctic winter, the lowest sea ice extent at the seasonal maximum in the satellite era, and the lowest ice extent in the months of May and June; the current sea ice cover remains below normal (see Figures 6a and 6b).

In an international collaborative project, Jochen Knies has studied the trend in the sea ice extent in the Arctic Ocean from 5.3 to 2.6 million years ago.

If the claim that the recent Arctic melting is unusual and due to man - made global warming were true, then this would mean that the sea ice extent in September 1979 was relatively low (September being the month of minimum sea ice in the Arctic).

The mean ice extent in September, averaged across all ensemble members, corrected for forward model bias is our projected ice extent.

Figure 5 shows a comparison between the ice extent in June 2013 with previous years (Figure 5a) and climatology (Figure 5b).

We believe that the examples below indicate that the Arctic sea ice extent in 1979 was quite high, and that there were many periods over the last few centuries when the sea ice extent was less.

Our method uses estimates of ice thickness from a coupled ice - ocean model as predictors for a statistical forecast of the minimum ice extent in September.

Sea ice extent in both 2012 and 2007 represent large reductions compared to the preceding year.