Sentences with phrase «ice minimum»

Please note that this is not an announcement of the sea ice minimum extent for 2012.

The sea ice minimum occurs at the end of the summer melting season.

If they have, why have we never seen ice minimums like those before?

The five lowest summer sea ice minimums have occurred over the past five years, researchers noted.

Cassano, E. N., Cassano, J. J., Higgins, M. E. & Serreze, M. C. Atmospheric impacts of an Arctic sea ice minimum as seen in the Community Atmosphere Model.

However, looking at the decrease in sea ice minimum over the past decade or so, both the 2007 and 2012 minima crashed through the preious lows in a typical overshoot pattern.

Polar bear numbers, as confirmed by the latest estimates in the 2015 IUCN Red List assessment, are higher now than they have been since the 1960s, despite almost 10 years of summer sea ice minimums below 5.0 mk2.

Schweiger, A.J., J. Zhang, R.W. Lindsay, and M. Steele, «Did unusually sunny skies help drive the record sea ice minimum of 2007?»

In the Antarctic, where the summer season just wrapped up, rapid ice melt led to the lowest sea ice minimum ever recorded for the area.

I know many people are touting the PIOMAS data, but the sea ice minimum area is still more than half what it was 30 years ago.

The antarctic summer ice minimum extend dropped about 50 % during this period, suggesting warm ocean waters.

That's not a terrible difference, but the space agency is quick to point out that this could hint at a more worrying trend where the Arctic summertime ice minimum continues to shrink at an alarming rate.

Hence, the 2012 Arctic sea ice minimum provides a counterexample to the often - quoted idea that individual extreme events can not be attributed to human influence.

Sea ice minimum levels are falling at the rate of 14 % a decade in the Arctic, and polar bears have been feeling the loss.

Obviously ice minimum would occur some time after the start of cooling (think first derivative of a sine wave).

If it is going to turn we need at least 3 years with increasing ice minima from 2012, preferably 4 years.

The low sea ice minima projected for 2008, relative to the long term mean, were mostly a result of the initial conditions.

The Arctic sea ice minimum marks the day, each year, when the sea ice extent is at its lowest.

In case anyone would like an short animation of annual sea ice minimum = how much melting took place last year, check out this clip from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio.

The 2012 Arctic summer sea ice minimum far surpassed 2007 as the lowest on record.

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Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Volumes 1979 - 2012.

Atmospheric impacts of an Arctic sea ice minimum as seen in the Community Atmosphere Model.

«September Arctic sea - ice minimum predicted by spring melt - pond fraction.»