The thick durable sea ice that routinely cloaked much of the Arctic Ocean in colder decades in the 20th century is increasingly relegated to a few clotted places along northern Canada and Greenland, according to
the latest satellite analysis of the warming region.
Not exact matches
Dr. Chapman has been the Principal Investigator of many NASA and NSF grants and has been P.I. of research concerning the
Late Heavy Bombardment of the Moon (and inner solar system), astronomical observations of very young asteroid families,
analysis of NEAR Shoemaker images of Eros, studies of secondary cratering on Mars, and investigations of the cratering records of the Galilean
satellites.
This argument was particularly popular in the
late 1990s and early 2000s, when John Christy and Roy Spencer from the University of Alabama at Huntsville published an
analysis of
satellite data that seemed to indicate the lower atmosphere was cooling.
Movement
analysis of one
satellite - tracked killer whale travelling as part of a group of 20 + killer whales showed that the whale remained in Prince Regent Inlet and in the northern part of the Gulf of Boothia from
late August until early October, when locations overlapped aggregations of marine mammal prey species, including seals, narwhal, and bowhead whales (Matthews et al. 2011).
The new
satellite Qa10 are used in combination with the newly reprocessed QuikSCAT V3, the
latest version of sea surface temperature (SST)
analyses, and with 10m air temperature estimated from the European Centre for Medium Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) re-
analyses (ERA Interim).
«Based on a new
analysis of passive microwave
satellite data, we demonstrate that the annual mean extent of Antarctic sea ice has increased at a statistically significant rate of 0.97 % dec - 1 since the
late 1970s.»
Late last month, scientists from Woods Hole Research Center and Boston University published in Science an
analysis of
satellite data showing one of the most dramatic turnabouts in recent memory.
How interesting then, that the
latest analysis of 88million measurements from the European Space Agency's Cryosat
satellite show the northern ice - cap INCREASED by a staggering 41 per cent in 2013 and, despite a modest shortage last year, is bigger than at any time for decades.