Sentences with phrase «sea ice experts»

Sea ice experts said the ice cover may have become so thin and brittle that it doesn't need unusually sunny and warm weather in order to melt to a record low anymore, even a typical Arctic summer can do the job.

[Andy Revkin — On Arctic ice trends, I have a post coming shortly on the latest update from the world's leading teams of sea ice experts, showing this year's retreat is unlikely to match last year's, while the long - term trend is still heading toward ever less summer ice.

The Outlooks are produced with information on weather and sea ice conditions provided by the National Weather Service - Alaska Region and Alaska Native sea ice experts.

Tour leaders have been trained in observations and are in contact with sea ice experts, however it should be noted this is their first experience recording these observations.

For the 2009 SEARCH Sea Ice Outlook, regional perspectives on ice evolution during the summer had been solicited, both to synthesize relevant field observations and modeling activities and to encourage communication between different sea ice experts and user groups.

Joey Comiso, a NASA sea ice expert, said the continued pattern of low sea ice extents fits into the large - scale decline that has unfolded over the past three decades.

Newer computer models that scientists are using to help prepare the next IPCC report, which is scheduled to be released in 2014, do a much better job capturing the historical sea ice trends than the previous generation of models did, several sea ice experts told Climate Central.

Sea ice experts said the ice cover may have become so thin and brittle that it doesn't need unusually sunny and warm weather in order to melt to a record low anymore, even a typical Arctic summer can do the job.

«We have a new normal,» said Don Perovich, a sea ice expert who works at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory.

«The Arctic is clearly experiencing the impacts of a prolonged and intensified warming trend,» said the report's co-editor, Jackie Richter - Menge, a sea ice expert at the Army Corps of Engineers» Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, N.H.

«The Aqua satellite will tell us about water in all of its forms,» said Dr. Claire Parkinson, a sea ice expert and Aqua project scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., which is in charge of the program.

Hmm, some sea ice expert, can't recall who, said several years ago that the first ice - free event would be quite sudden.

But in 2010 I co-authored a paper with two sea ice experts and a historian / ethnologist in which we used nineteenth - century records from whaling ships hunting bowhead whales in the north Pacific and beyond, along the Arctic sea ice edge.

The downward trend is quite clear, according to Julienne Stroeve, a sea ice expert at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, who is currently based at University College London.