Reconstruction of millennial changes in dust emission, transport and regional
sea ice coverage using the deep EPICA ice cores fromthe Atlantic and Indian Ocean sector of Antarctica.
Not exact matches
The team
used a worldwide climate model that incorporated normal month - to - month variations in
sea surface temperatures and
sea ice coverage, among other climate factors, to simulate 12,000 years» worth of weather.
As a consequence, any
sea ice coverage ensemble forecast that
uses the 2007 temperature and specific humidity fields as part of the input surface BCs will approximately have the 2007
sea ice minimum as the lower end estimate of the ensemble.
To make
use of that potential we would need good estimates of
sea ice thickness, such as might be obtained from ICESat or CryoSat (i.e., complete spatial
coverage).
Slate's Phil Plait was responsibly reserved in his
coverage, emphasizing that although one of the press releases
used the word «collapse,» the melting of this particular glacier — which by itself contains enough
ice to raise global
seas by three feet — is a process that will take centuries, if not longer, to play out.
Your initial NSIDC graph says they
use 15 %
coverage for
sea ice extent.