Sentences with phrase «mean sea ice thickness»

While sea ice thickness observations are sparse, here we utilize the ocean and sea ice model, PIOMAS (Zhang and Rothrock, 2003), to visualize mean sea ice thickness from 1979 to 2018.

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Scientists still have a great deal to learn about the ice cover around the North Pole, not least about the full meaning of the thickness of sea ice.

Previous observations of the thickness of Antarctic sea ice produced a mean draught — the depth between the waterline and the bottom of the ice sheet — of around 1 meter; the new work gives a mean draught of over 3 meters.

The mean ice concentration anomaly for June 2013 is 0.9 x 106 square kilometers greater than June 2012, however Arctic sea ice thicknesses and volumes continue to remain the lowest on record.

While the ice thickness is generally thinner in May 2016 compared to previous years, the air temperature has been several degrees above the last 10 year mean in the northern North Atlantic and the Beaufort Sea, but colder in the Eastern Siberian Sea and Laptev Sea causing the described melt pond pattern.

There is some evidence that the Arctic sea - ice cover has decreased about 6 % during the last two decades, and that the mean ice thickness has decreased as well.

That means the ice thickness would be roughly (1 /.9) times the depth of the sea bottom.