Sentences with phrase «moderate sea ice growth»
This year's record low happened just two years after several monthly record high sea ice extents in Antarctica and decades of moderate sea ice growth.
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«Because these plants are photosynthetic, it's not surprising to find that as the amount of sea ice cover declined, the amount of [photosynthesis] increased,» says biological oceanographer Kevin Arrigo of Stanford University's School of Earth Sciences, who led an effort to use the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) devices on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites to determine changes in phytoplankton growth.
agreement that the warming to date would have reduced Arctic sea ice, there is no such consensus for the Antarctic, with at least some models having simulated sea ice growth in response to moderate warming before switching to sea ice shrinkage from additional warming (e.g., Manabe et al., 1992; see also Liu and Curry, 2010).