Sentences with phrase «ice extent on»

While it is fun to write «bat - out - of - hell,» there is some spread for the sea ice extent on Oct 28 in the last ten years.

It shows that April saw its second - lowest sea ice extent on record, driven by a massive meltdown in the Bering Sea (reminder: ice started melting there during Arctic winter)....

The paper found the pattern was observed during the winter of 2012 - 2013, following the lowest fall sea ice extent on record in September 2012.

The long - term decreases in summer sea ice are superposed on extreme record minima in 2007 and even less in 2012 (Stroeve et al., 2008), 10 with the record low in Arctic sea ice extent on September 16, 2012 of only approximately 3.4 million square km.11 This September 2012 sea ice extent minimum was only 49 percent of its 1979 - 2000 mean.

This graphic by the NSIDC shows the north pole (you can see North America at the bottom, Greenland to the right, and Asia at the top) with the ice extent on September 9, 2011 marked in white.

«The last 10 years have all seen the lowest sea ice extent on record.

Sea ice extent during August averaged just 1.82 million square miles, which, at nearly 40 percent below the 1979 to 2000 average, was the all - time lowest August sea ice extent on record.

The next map overlays current ice extent on the 1971 map, with green representing ice present in 2013 that was not present in 1971, and red representing the opposite.

While the initial ice cover is remarkably low in the Barents and Kara seas, the forecast suggests limited reductions in ice extent on the Pacific side of the Arctic as compared with recent years.

In 2007, for example, factors other than high temperatures contributed to the lowest Arctic sea ice extent on record.

I posted the data on the ice extent on the The Telegraph (James Delingpole's blog on fracking) and the warmists assumed it was temperature data and that it confirmed a 30 year warming trend!

The red lines are climatological locations for sea ice extent on this date.

Ice Extent on Earth was Larger during the LIA.

I follow it every day and that doesn't seem to agree with the map of sea ice extent on the same webpage.

The truth is that in the arctic we're seeing record low levels of sea ice year after year, including just this year, when in March the North Pole saw the lowest maximum ice extent on record.

«So this summer's definitely ranking among one of the cooler summers,» she said, «and yet you still have the second - lowest sea - ice extent on record.»

[4] On September 10, 2016, Arctic sea ice extent stood at 1.60 million square miles, the second - lowest minimum sea ice extent on record, tied with 2007.

The top image, made from sea ice observations collected by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR - E) Instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite, shows sea ice extent on September 19, 2010.

To illustrate that last point, this animation compares 25 March 2011 ice extent on Greenland's northeast coast with 25 March, 10 April, and 01 June 2010.

So at best this is useful for seasonal forecasts, unless someone is forecasting sea ice extent on longer time scales.

The orange line shows the average sea - ice extent on that date based on measurements taken from 1981 to 2010

This was the fifth smallest Antarctic sea ice extent on record for September and the smallest since 2002.

This was the smallest Antarctic sea ice extent on record for November.

This was the 10th smallest maximum sea ice extent on record for the Antarctic and the earliest occurrence of the maximum extent in the 1979 - 2016 satellite record.

This NASA Blue Marble image shows Arctic sea ice extent on March 24, 2016.

This was the largest January Antarctic sea ice extent on record, surpassing the previous record set in 2008 by 220,000 square miles.

But that it almost certainly will rank among the lowest winter sea - ice extents on record.

Not exact matches

His boss, commissioner Gary Bettman, has tamped down the extent of the problem, noting from Boca Raton that only a half - dozen of 170 challenges had resulted in disagreement between on - ice officials and the NHL «Situation Room.»

If the planet is covered by an immense amount of water, the pressure at the bottom of the ocean will increase to such an extent that water occurs in the form of «Ice VII,» which does not exist on Earth.

The CSU - led research team offers important details on how the Southern Annular Mode affects storm activity and the extent of sea ice surrounding the Antarctic Peninsula.

Now, a new study led by Colorado State University provides important details on the extent of sea ice, which can protect ice shelves from the impacts of ocean storms, in the Antarctic Peninsula.

«The extent of the ice was so high, the body was pressed against the logs on the ceiling and smashed,» Schultz says.

In addition, the report notes that three of the warmest years on record — 2014, 2015 and 2016 — occurred since the last report was released; those years also had record - low sea ice extent in the Arctic Ocean in the summer.

For decades beforehand, researchers had debated the extent to which ice shelves buttress glaciers on land — acting like corks that slow the land ice's inevitable march to the sea.

According to the findings, the extent of Arctic sea ice and its seasonal distribution clearly have broad impacts on Arctic climate that extend beyond the Arctic Ocean itself and have important implications for the future of the Arctic system.

Antarctic: On the opposite pole, the Antarctic sea ice extent for August was 7.41 million square miles, 420,000 square miles (6.0 percent) above the 1981 - 2010 average.

Ola Johannessen and his colleagues at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre in Bergen base their claims on an analysis of two consecutive series of data on the extent of the ice packs which have previously been impossible to compare.

Since then, its ten instruments have supplied data on environmental factors such as air quality, the extent of Arctic sea ice and oil spills.

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 yeice 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 yeIce Data Center estimated Arctic sea ice to have reached its minimum extent for the yeice to have reached its minimum extent for the year.

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This image shows a visualization of Arctic sea ice cover on Sept. 12, 2013, with a yellow line showing the 30 - year average minimum extent.

The record lowest extent in the 37 - year satellite record occurred on September 17, 2012 when sea ice extent fell to 3.39 million square kilometers (1.31 million square miles).

The 2007 minimum occurred on September 18 of that year, when Arctic sea ice extent stood at 4.15 million square kilometers (1.60 million square miles).

And on the opposite side of the planet, on March 3 sea ice around Antarctica hit its lowest extent ever recorded by satellites at the end of summer in the Southern Hemisphere, a surprising turn of events after decades of moderate sea ice expansion.

It's unclear whether this year's strong El Niño event, which is a naturally occurring phenomenon that typically occurs every two to seven years where the surface water of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean warms, has had any impact on the Arctic sea ice minimum extent.

According to a NASA analysis of satellite data, the 2015 Arctic sea ice minimum extent is the fourth lowest on record since observations from space began.

This year's record low sea ice maximum extent might not necessarily lead to a new record low summertime minimum extent, since weather has a great impact on the melt season's outcome, Meier said.

The Arctic's ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent on September 10, 2016, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent on September 10, 2016, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDIce Data Center (NSIDC).

Satellites show the extent of Arctic sea ice on Sept. 16, 2012 as compared to the average minimum from the past 30 years (yellow line).

Earlier this month — on 17 March — the extent of Arctic sea ice peaked at nearly 15 million square kilometers, covering an area roughly twice the size of Australia.