Sentences with phrase «sea ice coverage also»

Sunday's Arctic sea ice coverage also beats the previous record of 1.61 million square miles set in mid-September 2007.

Not exact matches

It's also worth noting that the area of sea ice coverage is influenced by the wind, and the rapid area loss of last summer was mainly wind - driven — but thin sea ice is more sensitive to wind forcing than thick sea ice is.

It also appears that the sea ice volume continues its steady decrease, and has set a new record low — that story is getting some coverage:

The estimates also suggests, based on current sea - ice coverage, that it will take another trillion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions before Arctic summer sea ice more or less vanishes.

The report, led by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, also found that maximum winter sea ice coverage in the Arctic was the smallest ever recorded.

The Statement also highlighted that long - term indicators of climate change such as increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, sea level rise and ocean acidification continue «unabated», with Arctic sea ice coverage remaining below average and the previously stable Antarctic sea ice extent at or near a record low.

Also, take a lesson from the last glacial about the power of a few degrees temperature change on ice coverage, sea levels, etc..