Sentences with phrase «kilometers less sea ice»

While it was record - breakingly cold on New Year's Eve in parts of eastern North America, the Arctic Ocean broke a different record, with a whopping 1.35 million square kilometers less sea ice — an area the size of Texas, California, and Minnesota combined — than the 1981 to 2010 median.

A person could easily become alarmed to find a million square kilometers less sea ice than on the same day of a previous year where there might have been a million square kilometers more.

Not exact matches

Results showed the storm caused the sea ice to pass the previous record 10 days earlier in August than it would have otherwise, but only reduced the final September ice extent by 150,000 square kilometers (almost 60,000 square miles), less than a 5 percent difference.

«An «ice - free» Arctic Ocean is often defined as «having less than 1 million square kilometers of sea ice», because it is very difficult to melt the thick ice around the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

Gauthier et al. (Canadian Ice Service); 4.9 Million Square Kilometers; Heuristic / Empirical The Canadian Ice Service (CIS) is predicting the minimum arctic sea ice extent to be less than 5 million square kilometres in September 20Ice Service); 4.9 Million Square Kilometers; Heuristic / Empirical The Canadian Ice Service (CIS) is predicting the minimum arctic sea ice extent to be less than 5 million square kilometres in September 20Ice Service (CIS) is predicting the minimum arctic sea ice extent to be less than 5 million square kilometres in September 20ice extent to be less than 5 million square kilometres in September 2010.

The projection is comparable to the September 2012 record minimum, and is less than the previous month's contribution to the Sea Ice Outlook (4.42 million square kilometers).

Meanwhile, 6,000 kilometers to the north, the Arctic has less sea ice than at any time in the 37 years that satellites have been measuring ice coverage.