Sentences with phrase «sea ice maximum»

Capping off a season of sustained, mind - boggling warm weather and stunted sea ice growth, the annual Arctic sea ice maximum hit its lowest level ever recorded.

This year's record low sea ice maximum extent might not necessarily lead to a new record low summertime minimum extent, since weather has a great impact on the melt season's outcome, Meier said.

The white world that the movie starts with in fact shows an Arctic Ocean that had just reached the lowest sea ice maximum on satellite record — to take another important trend reference point.

As Americans were donning green shirts and tossing back pints of Guinness, the Arctic was limping toward its annual wintertime sea ice maximum.

The record low Northern Hemisphere (NH) winter sea ice maximum stemmed from a strong interannual surface anomaly in the Pacific sector, but it would not have been reached without long - term climate change.

The Arctic sea ice maximum marks the day of the year when Arctic sea ice reaches its largest extent.

The Arctic's sea ice maximum extent has dropped by an average of 2.8 percent per decade since 1979, the year satellites started measuring sea ice.

To read NSIDC press releases on past Arctic sea ice maxima, see the Arctic Sea Ice Press Announcements Archive on the Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis Web page

litesong wrote: The 2017 Arctic sea ice is increasing its chances that its sea ice maximum will remain below 14 million square kilometers, becoming the third year IN A ROW to remain under the mark, as NO OTHER YEAR BEFORE 2015 HAS EVER DONE IN THE SATELLITE RECORD.

Note that Miles and colleagues were looking at ice records on or around the sea ice maximum in winter / spring.

For example, the Bering Sea has had 4 years of colder than normal winter and spring conditions from 2007 - 2010, with near record sea - ice extents, rivaling the sea ice maximum in the mid-1970s, despite record retreats during summer in the Arctic.»

While the Antarctic seasonal sea ice minimum was unremarkable (slightly earlier, and slightly lower, than the 37 - year average), the sea ice maximum occurred early (August 31), followed by a period of rapid ice extent decline.

Usually winter climate news from the Arctic comes somewhere in March, at the turning point of seasons, when we can precisely compare the annual sea ice maximum to that of other years.

The sea ice maximum occurs at the end of the winter cold season.

Ironically, 2008, 2009, and 2010 were above the trend line for Arctic sea ice maximum.

Are you willing to say that the decline in sea ice maximum is decelerating?