Sentences with phrase «lowest sea ice maximum»

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.

Not exact matches

Arctic sea ice hit a record low wintertime maximum extent in 2017.

The sea ice reached its maximum winter extent unusually early this year and has been falling fast, to a new record low for this time of year (see graph below).

The record - low winter maximum doesn't necessarily herald a record low end - of - summer minimum come September, as summer weather patterns have a large effect on sea ice area.

This year's maximum was likely reached on March 7, the NSIDC said Wednesday, when sea ice covered 5.57 million square miles, the lowest in 38 years of satellite records.

The recent string of record - low winter maximums could be a sign that the large summer losses are starting to show up more in other seasons, with an increasingly delayed fall freeze - up that leaves less time for sea ice to accumulate in winter, Julienne Stroeve, an NSIDC scientist and University College London professor, previously said.

Those high temperatures have kept Arctic sea ice to record low levels; the Arctic looks to see a record low winter maximum sea ice area for the third year in a row.

Capping off a season of sustained, mind - boggling warm weather and stunted sea ice growth, the annual Arctic sea ice maximum hit its lowest level ever recorded.

The record low maximum doesn't necessarily guarantee a record - low summer sea ice minimum, though, as ice melt depends heavily on Arctic weather patterns through the spring and summer months.

Evidence for the maximum lowering of sea level during successive ice ages over the past several millions of years is sparse.

The high anomalies up in the Arctic continue for a third month in GISTEMP and the question of the maximum Arctic Sea Ice Extent is surely now only by how much this freeze season will be below the record low set in 2017.

Low maximum sea ice extent also occurred over periods of some decades (e.g., mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth centuries, early fifteenth and late thirteenth centuries), with absolute values in some cases as low as the twentieth century ones, but these periods were in no case as persistent as in the twentieth century. Low maximum sea ice extent also occurred over periods of some decades (e.g., mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth centuries, early fifteenth and late thirteenth centuries), with absolute values in some cases as low as the twentieth century ones, but these periods were in no case as persistent as in the twentieth century. low as the twentieth century ones, but these periods were in no case as persistent as in the twentieth century. . .

The twentieth century sustained the lowest maximum sea ice extent values since A.D. 1200.

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They realise that Arctic sea - ice is low but that the Antarctic ice is at maximum.

This is 0.7 percent higher than the previous record high extent of 7.51 million square miles that occurred in 2012 and 8.6 percent higher than the record low maximum sea ice extent of 6.96 million square miles that occurred in 1986.

In March 2017, the annual maximum extent of Arctic sea ice hit a record low for the third straight year, according to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centice hit a record low for the third straight year, according to the US National Snow and Ice Data CentIce Data Centre.

Arctic sea ice appears to have reached a record low wintertime maximum extent for the second year in a row, according to scientists at the NASA - supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and NAice appears to have reached a record low wintertime maximum extent for the second year in a row, according to scientists at the NASA - supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and NAIce Data Center (NSIDC) and NASA.

So much so that the center declared this year's Arctic sea - ice maximum extent was the lowest in 38 years, since satellite monitoring began.

For example, this year in March the Arctic sea ice reached its maximum extent, * but it was the lowest maximum extent ever seen since satellite records began in 1979.

On March 24, 2016, just four days after the end of astronomical winter [6]-- which saw temperatures from 11 to 14 °F above average in the central Arctic — sea ice in the Arctic hit 5.607 million mi ² (14.52 million km ²), its lowest annual maximum since records began in 1979.

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.

In 2017, maximum winter sea ice area, measured each March, was the lowest ever observed.

Further investigation of ice thickness and free ice drift conditions, in addition to persistence of SLP maxima, will provide further insight as to whether convergence (divergence) of sea ice associated with SLP highs (lows) will give rise to increased ice retreat in the Arctic and the Beaufort Sea region in particulsea ice associated with SLP highs (lows) will give rise to increased ice retreat in the Arctic and the Beaufort Sea region in particulSea region in particular.

For Antarctica, the lowest maximum extent, recorded on September 12, follows a record low minimum sea ice coverage recorded on March 1 after the summer thaw, he said.

23 March 2018... KTUU Anchorage, Alaska (Quoted): Arctic sea ice hits annual maximum at near record low levels

Arctic sea ice in March reached a new record low: the area of frozen ocean at the height of winter on 7 March reached a new maximum low for the third year running, according to NASA scientists.

Sea ice extent in March tied with 2015 for the lowest maximum in the 37 - year satellite period.

Sea ice cover in the Arctic — which should be reaching its maximum in a couple of weeks — last month stood at a record low for the second consecutive month.

The March 24, 2016 maximum sea - ice extent was estimated at 5.6 million square miles (14.52 million square kilometers), which set a new record for the lowest maximum extent since satellite monitoring began in 1981.

For everyone who did not monitor the Polar sat pictures, the regular Mid-April clouding over of most of the Arctic Ocean has happened, that was and is good news, it is a slow starter, but from a second lowest maximum volume, sea ice needs all the good news it can get, which will likely not come until mid June onwards, for a little while.

Following the record warm Arctic winter, the lowest sea ice extent at the seasonal maximum in the satellite era, and the lowest ice extent in the months of May and June; the current sea ice cover remains below normal (see Figures 6a and 6b).

The record low Northern Hemisphere (NH) winter sea ice maximum stemmed from a strong interannual surface anomaly in the Pacific sector, but it would not have been reached without long - term climate change.

Arctic sea ice reached its maximum annual extent on March 21, and the amount measured was the fifth - lowest level ever recorded.

Scientists express concern as Arctic Sea ice reaches its lowest winter maximum ever recorded.

Sea ice extent in the Antarctic remains low; the maximum extent for the year is likely to be the joint - second lowest in the satellite era.

The extent of the sea ice reached a record high for the second year in a row, of 7.56 million square miles on October 1 − 0.7 % higher than the previous record high of 7.51 million sq miles in 2012 and 8.6 % higher than the record low maximum of 6.96 million sq miles in 1986.

Arctic sea ice has hit a record low for its maximum extent in winter, which scientists said was a result of climate change and abnormal weather patterns.

«During the Holocene Climatic Optimum of 8,000 to 5,000 years ago, the Arctic sea ice was less than 50 % (so less than 2.6 mln sq km) of the lowest extent on satellite record, the 2007 melting record,... during the HCO or HTM (Holocene Thermal Maximum) it was warmer than today — in the Arctic on average about 1.6 degrees Celsius.»

2011 nearly matched the record low maximum sea ice extent from 2006 (shown below.)

The satellite data released by NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center show that the maximum extent of the 2008 - 2009 winter sea ice cover was the fifth - lowest since researchers began collecting such information 30 years aIce Data Center show that the maximum extent of the 2008 - 2009 winter sea ice cover was the fifth - lowest since researchers began collecting such information 30 years aice cover was the fifth - lowest since researchers began collecting such information 30 years ago.

2017 set a new record for the lowest winter maximum sea ice extent observed.

The maximum extent of Arctic sea ice cover this winter was the second - lowest since satellite record - keeping began, researchers said Friday.