Sentences with phrase «sea ice age»

This image shows sea ice age for the week of the 2016 sea ice minimum.

Computer models of ice thickness, and maps of sea ice age both indicated a much thinner ice pack at the end of winter.

The other major feature of the 2010 sea ice age map is the extensive areas of second - and third - year sea ice.

Based on sea ice age calculations, much of this sea ice tongue remained in the Arctic Ocean basin to become second - year sea ice (as discussed on the NSIDC web site by Fowler and Maslanik; and by Ignatius Rigor as Figure 8 below).

In response to your question I would refer you to my comment above Dave Wendt (14:39:39): where I discuss the Rigor and Wallace paper of 2004 which demonstrated that the decline in sea ice age and thickness began with a shift in state in Beaufort Gyre and the TransPolar Drift in 1989 which resulted in multiyear ice declining from over 80 % of the Arctic to 30 % in about one year and that the persistence of that pattern has been responsible for the continuing decline.

Distribution and trends in Arctic sea ice age through spring 2011.

Comparison of sea ice age during the second full week of September reveals that the Arctic will enter the winter ice growth season with less multiyear ice (bright colors), but far more first - year ice (dark blue) this year than it did in 2007.

Regarding initial conditions for Spring 2010, Figure 2 by Maslanik and others shows maps of sea ice classes derived from sea ice age for April 2010 and 2009.

Estimated ice age at the end of April for 2010 from the University of Colorado satellite - derived (Lagrangian drift) sea ice age.

Estimated ice age for June 21, 2010 from the University of Colorado satellite - derived (Lagrangian drift) sea ice age (in years).

Sea ice age for September 2009 and buoy drift as contributed by I. Rigor.

Secondary objectives: Four secondary objectives have been defined: - To assess the effect of a more accurate simulation of sea ice drift and deformation on the Arctic sea ice mass balance and distribution properties of sea ice age.

I forgot to include the link for the sea ice age and buoy drift animation I referred to above.