Sentences with phrase «lowest extent»

Based on the last ten years, there is a 20 % chance that 2016 will be lower than the current record low extent of 2012.

This summer saw the fourth - lowest extent on record (and this winter also saw the lowest winter maximum on record).

Much was made of this major loss rate and low extent in the press and sea ice blogs.

However, this summer reached the second - lowest extent ever recorded with cooler weather conditions present.

This was the second lowest extent behind 2007 and 2.4 million square kilometers below the 1979 to 2000 average.

Loss of summer Arctic sea ice took a pause in 2013 with September 2013 having the 6th lowest extent since satellite observations began in 1979: 5.4 million square kilometers, based on National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) estimates.

Intervals of sustained low extent of sea ice cover occurred before AD 1200, and may be coincident with the so - called Medieval Warm Optimum (roughly AD 800 — 1300) attested in numerous Northern Hemisphere proxy records18, but the pre-industrial minimum occurred before, at about AD 640 (T3 in Fig. 3).

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Both northern and southern hemispheres experienced record breaking low extents for the time of year.

The story is similar this year at the other end of the globe, where the sea ice around Antarctica also melted away to an all - time record low extent during the Austral summer.

These warm conditions at the beginning of the summer melting season have set up the Arctic sea ice to shrink below its all - time record lowest extent set in 2012, he said.

The area of the Arctic Ocean covered by sea ice in September, when the annual minimum occurs, was the sixth lowest extent in the satellite record, going back to 1979.

Jack, given that we are dealing with a system that has a lot of variability in it, exactly how is one to draw any comfort that the record low ice extent and second lowest extent occur in back - to - back years?

That's one reason that, even with today's announcement that the sea ice reached a new low extent for the satellite era, I wouldn't bet that «the Arctic is all but certain to be virtually ice free within two decades,» as some have proposed.

The rapid warming and increased solar radiation absorption have combined to result in younger, thinner Arctic sea ice, which therefore melts more easily, making record low extents more likely to occur.

«The Barents Sea has experienced consistently low extents, particularly in winter, and this year has been no different.

The dashed line is 2012, which had an unusually low extent.

Arctic summer sea ice is in rapid decline [2nd lowest extent on record after 2007, and perhaps more importantly, the lowest volume of ice ever — this, along with the methane increase, could indicate a tipping element has been crossed that will kick climate change into a higher gear]

This was the 7th lowest extent in the satellite era, and 1.68 million square km below the 1981 - 2010 average, but quite close to the long - term linear trend (Figure 1).

April taken as a single month was the warmest on record for surface temperature, and snow coverage was also unusual, «April 2007 snow cover extent for the Northern Hemisphere was the third lowest extent on record, and it has been below average in 15 of the past 20 years.»

In other words, the advent of a strong El Niño in late 2015 and early 2016 may have shifted wind and ocean circulation to favor lower extents after a series of La - Niña - prone years (Meehl, 2016).

More recently (since July 2015) sea ice has returned to near - average conditions, and as of this writing is at a record daily low extent.

He predicted the imminent break - up of sea ice in summer months in 2007, when the previous lowest extent of 4.17 million square kilometres was set.

But it dipped again in winter of 2012, to its second lowest extent ever, the researchers report in a recent issue of the Journal of Climate.

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Arctic sea ice in 2017 had record - low extents for much of the first five months of the year, though it recovered a bit after that to show only the eight lowest summer minimum on record.

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Arctic Sea Ice to Reach Sixth Lowest Extent on Record

It reached that point on Sept. 10 this year, when it had the second lowest extent on record.

Not surprisingly, Arctic sea ice was at a record low extent in January 2016 as well, more than 1 million square kilometers lower than the 1981 — 2010 average.

«This has been an exciting year with several record low extents reached during winter and early summer but thanks to a colder than average summer, more ice remained than at the end of 2012,» said Julienne Stroeve, NSIDC senior scientist.

So when we see (again) that the Arctic sea ice reached a record low wintertime maximum extent (how far out new sea ice formed) on March 7, and that sea ice extent in Antarctica at the end of summer similarly reached its lowest extent we can be assured this is not as it should be.

So when we see (again) that the Arctic sea ice reached a record low wintertime maximum extent (how far out new sea ice formed) on March 7, and that sea ice extent in Antarctica at the end of summer similarly reached its lowest 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).

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.

Arctic sea ice, in retreat for years, shrank to its lowest extent in recorded history this past summer.

Arctic Sea Ice In September, Arctic sea ice reached its second - lowest extent ever recorded; 2012 holds first place.

The eight lowest extents in that record have all occurred within the past eight years, the report notes.

Only 1986 had a lower extent for this time of year.