Sentences with phrase «maximum sea ice extent»

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

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

Application of the modern analog technique to marine Antarctic diatoms: Reconstruction of maximum sea ice extent during the Last Glacial Maximum

The decline in maximum sea ice extent is only half that measured for the minimum area.

Segment I begins with a cold North Atlantic -LRB-- AMO), maximum sea ice extent in the European Arctic shelf seas (+ WIE).

-- Antarctic sea ice extent reached record high for second year in a row; South Pole station set record high temperature: The Antarctic maximum sea ice extent reached a record high of 7.56 million square miles on October 1.

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.

The presently low maximum sea ice extent in the Western Nordic Seas is unique over the last 800 years, and results from a sea ice decline started in late - nineteenth century after the Little Ice Age.»

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

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. . .

This was the 10th smallest maximum sea ice extent on record for the Antarctic and the earliest occurrence of the maximum extent in the 1979 - 2016 satellite record.

Minimum and maximum sea ice extents for northern and southern hemispheres in 1979.

Not exact matches

This year's maximum extent of Arctic sea ice, reached March 7 (shown), is the smallest peak extent ever seen.

Together, the meager maximum extent and thin ice could spell trouble for this year's minimum sea ice extent, expected during September.

The Arctic's sea ice maximum extent has dropped by an average of 2.8 percent per decade since 1979, the year satellites started measuring sea ice.

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.

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

Antarctic sea ice saw an early maximum extent in 2016, followed by a very rapid loss of ice starting in early September.

This year, sea ice in the Arctic reached its smallest maximum extent since satellites began tracking polar ice patterns, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, while scientists have also forecast ice - free Arctic summers in two to three decades (ClimateWire, July 16, 201ice in the Arctic reached its smallest maximum extent since satellites began tracking polar ice patterns, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, while scientists have also forecast ice - free Arctic summers in two to three decades (ClimateWire, July 16, 201ice patterns, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, while scientists have also forecast ice - free Arctic summers in two to three decades (ClimateWire, July 16, 201Ice Data Center, while scientists have also forecast ice - free Arctic summers in two to three decades (ClimateWire, July 16, 201ice - free Arctic summers in two to three decades (ClimateWire, July 16, 2013).

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).

A: The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announced this week that the sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached its maximum extent — its widest halo around the continent — in 2014 on 22 September: more than 20 million square kilometers, which also set a record for the highest extent of sea ice around the continent since satellite measurements began in the late 197Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announced this week that the sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached its maximum extent — its widest halo around the continent — in 2014 on 22 September: more than 20 million square kilometers, which also set a record for the highest extent of sea ice around the continent since satellite measurements began in the late 197ice surrounding Antarctica reached its maximum extent — its widest halo around the continent — in 2014 on 22 September: more than 20 million square kilometers, which also set a record for the highest extent of sea ice around the continent since satellite measurements began in the late 197ice around the continent since satellite measurements began in the late 1970s.

September marks the end of winter when the sea ice that surrounds Antarctica swells to its maximum extent.

At the opposite end of world, September marks the end of winter when the sea ice that surrounds Antarctica swells to its maximum extent.

The extent of Arctic sea ice reached the maximum area of its seasonal cycle on March 7th coming in at 14.42 million km2.

Bentley, M.J., and Anderson, J.B., 1998, Glacial and Marine Geological Evidence for the Extent of Grounded Ice in the Weddell Sea - Antarctic Peninsula Region During the Last Glacial Maximum: Antarctic Science, v. 10, (3), p. 307 - 323Berkman, P.A. and Ku, T. - H.

The minimum Arctic sea ice has declined by a little over half since its maximum extent of the past three decades.

The NSIDC announced on Monday that Arctic sea ice hit its maximum extent for the winter on March 24, when it averaged 5.607 million square miles.

On August 31, the Antarctic sea ice reached its annual maximum extent at 7.12 million square miles.

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.

We have just passed the annual maximum in Arctic sea ice extent which always occurs sometime in March.

It was yesterday last year that saw the 2017 daily maximum for JAXA Sea Ice Extent (and today for NSIDC).

Least unexpected observations: (Joint winners) 2006 near - record minima in Arctic sea ice extent, near - record maxima in Northern Hemisphere temperatures, resumed increase in ocean heat content, record increases in CO2 emissions

This second hypothesis is compatible with reconstructions from dinocysts that suggest maximum sea - ice extent during the early Holocene.»

For 2007, the Arctic sea ice extent minimum was 25 % below the previous minimum, whereas the sea ice extent maximum for the Antarctic was roughly 1 % above the previous year.

If you plot the average Arctic Sea Ice extent for 20 years, the you should also plot the monthly maximum and minimum values on the same figure so that we can get some perspective on where the 2007 and 2008 data falls in the context of annual variability, or examine for trends.

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.

Interesting you cut - off total ice extents at 2012, especially since the total extent of Arctic sea ice has actually increased since then, and in fact the Antarctic ice extents are at a RECORD MAXIMUM — so things aren't always what they appear to be in a very complex system known as global climate.

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.

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Center officials say the sea ice probably reached its maximum extent on March 7th, when it covered about 5 - and - a-half-million square miles of the Arctic Ocean, including portions of the Bering Sea that lie south of the Arctic Circsea ice probably reached its maximum extent on March 7th, when it covered about 5 - and - a-half-million square miles of the Arctic Ocean, including portions of the Bering Sea that lie south of the Arctic CircSea that lie south of the Arctic Circle.

An overall warming in the 2 × CO2 experiment causes reduction of sea - ice extent by 15 %, with maximum decrease in summer and autumn, consistent with observed seasonal sea - ice changes.

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.

Arctic sea ice cover as of Wednesday reflects had already begun to slowly recede two weeks after it had reached its maximum extent for the winter of 2016 - 17 on March 7, when it reached 5.57 million square miles (14.42 million square kilometers).

A map of sea ice extent at the climax of the Last Glacial Maximum (both perennial and seasonal ice), prepared with the help of a colleague, makes it possible to discuss what genetic and fossil evidence can tell us about the probable effects of glacial conditions on polar bears and ringed seals.

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.

The warm Arctic winter limited the formation of sea ice so much that this year's maximum extent, measured in March, was the smallest maximum ever recorded.

Arctic sea ice extent reached its wintertime maximum on March 7, at 5.57 million square miles (14.42 million square kilometers).

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.

NSIDC reported that the 2010 seasonal sea ice maximum was quite late (31 March compared to the climatological date of 26 February) and the total maximum ice extent approached the climatological mean.

When there is less summer sea ice extent, the rebound to the following Spring maximum is greater.