Sentences with phrase «minimum extent»

Please note that this is not an announcement of the sea ice minimum extent for 2012.

This is the second lowest minimum extent in the satellite record, 70,000 sq km larger than the record set in 2017.

2008 had the second highest winter extent in recent years, and yet had the second lowest late summer minimum extent yet recorded.

At the same time, the probability of a new record minimum extent is also of interest and significance according to some contributors.

The 2008 arctic summer sea ice extent minimum nearly matched the drastic reduction in minimum extent observed in 2007.

A slightly warmer summer and / or more favorable winds at the end of the season would have resulted in a final minimum extent more in line with the predicted value.

These factors helped to retain a greater than normal amount of first - year ice resulting in the higher - than - predicted minimum extent.

It seems like sea ice drift speed is an important parameter related to sea ice summer minimum extent and that seems quite logical.

New University of Colorado at Boulder calculations indicate the record low minimum extent of sea ice across the Arctic last September has a three - in - five chance of being shattered again in 2008 because of continued warming temperatures and a preponderance of younger, thinner ice.

According to NSIDC, the average minimum extent for 1979 — 2000 was 6.70 million square kilometers (2.59 million square miles).

After an unusually cool summer in the northernmost latitudes, Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its annual minimum extent on September 13, 2013.

The maps above compare the Arctic ice minimum extents from 2012 (top) and 1984 (bottom).

On September 10, Arctic sea ice reached its annual minimum extent at 1.60 million square miles, statistically tying 2007 as the second smallest extent in the 1979 — 2016 satellite record, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

The last seven years witnessed the seven lowest minimum extents since satellite observations began in 1979, and there was last a record high with Arctic ice cover two decades ago, according to federal data.

The summertime minimum extent losses are nearly five times larger: 13.5 percent per decade.

NSIDC will release numbers for the 2012 daily minimum extent when it occurs.

Total polar sea ice covered 6.26 million square miles (16.21 million square kilometers), which is 790,000 square miles (2 million square kilometers) less than the average global minimum extent for 1981 - 2010 — the equivalent of having lost a chunk of sea ice larger than Mexico.

It is not about the nitpicking over the exact minimum extent, etc., it is about the fact that we are entering unknown climate and weather territories where the jet stream is going to go north, the weather will change drastically in the U.S. and northern Europe, and no one knows how drastically.

2012 shattered the previous record low sea ice extent; hence «regression towards the mean'told us that 2013 would likely have a higher minimum extent,» wrote Dana Nuccitelli.

Even if the 2008 summer sea ice minimum extent appeared to be slightly above the 2007 all - time record minimum, according to passive radiometers, it does not seem like the ice mass budget is significantly different in 2008 compared with 2007.

Interesting that August is named as the month when «the ice was dissolved,» given that today we see minimum extent in early September.

Satellite data reveal how the new record low Arctic sea ice extent, from Sept. 16, 2012, compares to the average minimum extent over the past 30 years (in yellow).

The 2011 low is 2.38 million square kilometers (919,000 square miles) below the average minimum extent measured between 1979 and 2000.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center announced Wednesday that the sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean has smashed the previous record minimum extent set in 2007 by a staggering 18 percent.

According to our forced model, different atmospheric conditions can lead to very different minimum extents, even late in the melting season.

The Arctic regularly reaches ever smaller extents of end - of - summer minimum extents of sea ice.

With 19 total responses, 14 provided a value for the arctic sea ice minimum extent for September 2008; 6 provided regional outlooks.

The last six years have witnessed the six lowest minimum extents since satellite observations began in 1979, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Sea ice extent fell to 3.41 million square kilometers (1.32 million square miles), now the lowest summer minimum extent in the satellite record.

The analysis by NASA and the NASA - supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado at Boulder showed the annual minimum extent was 1.70 million square miles (4.41 million square kilometers) on Sept. 11.

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.

The arctic summer sea ice extent minimum in September 2008 almost matched the drastic reduction in minimum extent observed in 2007.

This is the second lowest minimum extent in the satellite record,

In the popular press, reports have spanned the range from a recovery from the recent period of record minimum extents, to predictions of a new record minimum this summer.

A new NASA image based on satellite data shows that the extent of Arctic sea ice in September 2012 has hit a new record minimum, compared with the average minimum extent for the past 30 years.

Arctic sea ice minimum extents since 1979, when satellite measurements were started.

Multi-year sea ice hit its record minimum extent in the winter of 2008, when the ice was reduced to about 55 percent of its average extent since the late 1970s, the time when satellite measurements of the ice cap began.

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Scientists consider Arctic sea ice as a sensitive climate indicator and track this minimum extent every year to see if any trends emerge.

An image of an area of the Arctic sea ice pack well north of Alaska, captured by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite on Sept. 13, 2013, the day before the National Snow and Ice Data Center estimated Arctic sea ice to have reached its minimum extent for the year.

In Antarctica, this year's record low annual sea ice minimum of 815,000 square miles (2.11 million square kilometers) was 71,000 square miles (184,000 square kilometers) below the previous lowest minimum extent in the satellite record, which occurred in 1997.

Each year, the Arctic sea ice reaches its minimum extent in September.

The 10 lowest minimum extents in the satellite record have occurred in the last 11 years.

As the Arctic sea - ice reaches its summer minimum extent, it is clear that it has yet again shrunk to one of the smallest areas in recent decades, 10 % above the record minimum set last year.

This image shows a visualization of Arctic sea ice cover on Sept. 12, 2013, with a yellow line showing the 30 - year average minimum extent.