NSIDC
scientist Julienne Stroeve travels to the Arctic Ocean to study sea ice at its lowest extent since satellites started measuring it in 1979.
NSIDC Research
Scientist Julienne Stroeve said, «The spring of 2007 started out with less ice than normal, as well as thinner ice.
That has led to autumn temperatures in the last several years that are six to 10 degrees warmer than they were in the 1980s, said research
scientist Julienne Stroeve at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo..»
«I think the minimum this year is more remarkable than in 2007,» said NSIDC
scientist Julienne Stroeve in an email, «since the 2007 minimum was in large part driven by [unusual weather patterns], and this summer we shattered the 2007 minimum under more normal summer circulation patterns.»
Arctic
scientist Julienne Stroeve observed that the shrinking Arctic sea ice may have reached «a tipping point that could trigger a cascade of climate change reaching into Earth's temperate regions.»
Not exact matches
With the aid of powerful computers and sophisticated software at Cardiffs 3DLab — one of the first to specifically use 3D seismic data as a primary research tool —
scientists can rotate, slice, dice and practically
julienne rock formations to gain important glimpses into the planet's geologic past.
«We found that in years when the sea ice extent departed strongly from the trend, such as in 2012 and 2013, predictions failed regardless of the method used to forecast the September sea ice extent,» said
Julienne Stroeve, a senior
scientist at NSIDC and professor at University of College London.
The recent string of record - low winter maximums could be a sign that the large summer losses are starting to show up more in other seasons, with an increasingly delayed fall freeze - up that leaves less time for sea ice to accumulate in winter,
Julienne Stroeve, an NSIDC
scientist and University College London professor, previously said.
With the freeze season already substantially delayed, there will be knock - on effects for next year's melt season, notes Prof
Julienne Stroeve, professor of polar observation and modelling at University College London and senior research
scientist at the NSIDC.
A recent study by NSIDC
scientists Mark Serreze,
Julienne Stroeve, and Alexander Crawford, along with University of Washington
scientist Rebecca Woodgate, demonstrates strong links between seasonal sea ice retreat and advance in the Chukchi Sea and the inflow of ocean heat into the region through the Bering Strait.
«It's tied with 2007 as the second - lowest (extent),» says
Julienne Stroeve, a senior research
scientist with the Snow and Ice Data Center.
«What's exactly driving these changes is not clear, but having storm tracks move further north (i.e. the North Atlantic storm track) may be tied to the northward retreat of the ice edge,» said
Julienne Stroeve, a senior research
scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, in an email.
Julienne Stroeve is a Senior Research
Scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center.