Sentences with phrase «minimum ice extent»

By comparison, the actual minimum ice extent was 18 percent less than the previous record set in 2007.

But you fail to mention that they all point to 2007 as the year with minimum ice extent, consistent with a warming trend and only four years back.

The mean minimum ice extent in September, averaged across all ensemble members and corrected for forward model bias, is our projected ice extent.

The ACNFS outlook for September minimum ice extent is 4.1 Mkm2 ± 0.4 Mkm2.

I discussed the latest such research last week when the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported the annual minimum ice extent for the year — a tie with 2007 for second place since modern measurements began in 1979.

The projections of the Sea Ice Outlook groups for the September 2008 mean minimum ice extent, based on May data, had a median value of 4.2 million square kilometers.

So, in my opinion, actually, we are on the accelerating path and we probably will see, in the near future — next two, three years — another record minima ice extent observed by satellites, beating the last year, 2007 summer ice extent minimum.

The 1979 — 2000 average minimum ice extent was 6.70 million square kilometers (2.59 million square miles).

The seven lowest minimum ice extents have occurred in the last seven years, 2007 - 2013.

For example, austral summer minimum ice extents have varied by as much as 25 % over the 1979 to 2014 modern satellite record.

Not surprisingly given the record minimum ice extent last Fall, my subjective impression during our 2008 airborne hydrographic survey was that there was much more first - year ice (hasn't survived a summer) than in previous years.

The six lowest seasonal minimum ice extents in the satellite record have all occurred in the last six years (2007 to 2012).

As detailed in his contribution, initial underprediction of ice conditions improved as the season evolved and the window of higher predictive skill extended out to include the September minimum ice extent period.

Based on winter air temperatures and sea ice extents and thickness, a September 2016 minimum ice extent value of 4.3 million km2 is heuristically predicted.

The projections of the Sea Ice Outlook groups for the September 2009 mean minimum ice extent had a median value of 4.7 million square kilometers based on May data and 4.6 million square kilometers based on June data with a range of 4.2 - 5.2 million square kilometers (Figure 1).

For the latest forecasts of this summer's Arctic ice retreat, have a look at Sea Ice Outlook 2009, an effort to collate and compare a variety of studies aiming to project the minimum ice extent each summer.

The consolidated database shows that there is no precedent as far back as 1850 for the 21st century's minimum ice extent of sea ice on the pan-Arctic scale....

The minimum ice extent was the second lowest in the satellite record, after 2007, and continues the decadal trend of rapidly decreasing summer sea ice.

For more details on the minimum ice extent, see the Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis Web site.

Tagged Arctic, attack, Derocher, fall, fatality, freeze - up, Hudson Bay, Lunn, minimum ice extent, PBI, polar bear, Polar Bears International, population size, problem bears, sea ice, western hudson bay

The minimum ice extent in September 2009 was greater than the past two Septembers, but again fell below the long - term average.

The minimum ice extent data points from the 1970s to 1990 (points inside the oval) are nearly flat; is the «shoulder» at 1990 the beginning of a real response to this Alarming Trend?

With a probability of 80 % the minimum ice extent in 2008 will be in the range between 4.16 and 4.70 million km2.

The GOFS 3.1 outlook for the 2015 September minimum ice extent is 5.0 million km2 with a range of 3.4 — 6.0 M km2.

Our method uses estimates of ice thickness from a coupled ice - ocean model as predictors for a statistical forecast of the minimum ice extent in September.

The minimum ice extent in 2012 was about half the average.

The GOFS 3.1 outlook for the 2016 September minimum ice extent is 5.2 million km2 with a range of 4.3 — 6.0 million km2

The minimum ice extent — the lowest amount of ice recorded in the area annually — has shrunk from 3 million square miles in the early 1980's to less than 2 million square miles in 2005.

In a recent study done by our team, data from six years of past SIO predictions were compiled and analyzed for overall success in predicting the actual observed minimum ice extent.