Sentences with phrase «representing sea ice trends»

Computing and representing sea ice trends: Toward a community consensus.

Not exact matches

Thirty years is far too short to encompass a cycle for the Arctic sea ice where the major cycle is at least 70 years — the best cycle context for this I have found is represented in the State of the Arctic Report or the work of Igor Polyarkov at IARC Fairbanks — looking at Surface Air Temperature trends for the whole Arctic — 60 - 90N, for the century you can see two peaks in 1940 and 2005 with a trough in the mid-80s (if anyone can tell me how to copy in a jpg I could put one in here!).

53 % of the Outlook contributions suggest the September minimum will remain below 5 million square kilometers, representing a continued trend of declining sea ice extent.

The remaining estimates fall into «high» and «low» extent groupings: the low extent group with a range of 4.2 to 4.7 million square kilometers, representing a continued loss of sea ice extent compared to 2008/2009, and the high extent group of 5.4 to 5.7 million square kilometers, suggesting a return to the long - term trend for summer sea ice loss.

Or does the background trend in Figure 3 represent the global warming «forced» signal of an ever - increasing sea ice loss, plus natural variability (Bitz)?

The original quote speaks of the 2009 ice extent representing the continuation of a general trend, «consistent with a decline of August sea ice extent since 1979 ′, ie, not as much ice as there was, once.