Sentences with phrase «sea ice scientist»
We're looking at why that is,» said sea ice scientist Nathan Kurtz of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
livescience.com
Some other sea ice scientists (Jennifer Francis at Rutgers and Ignatius Rigor at the University of Washington) told me they are not ready to call it a season, noting that atmospheric pressure and some other conditions over the basin could lead to further shrinkage of ice extent in the next week or so.
But so far five of the first six months of 2016 set record low averages, said NASA sea ice scientist Walt Meier.
The Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis Web site provides daily data on Arctic sea ice along with monthly analysis of conditions by sea ice scientists.
But according to Joey Comiso, a sea ice scientist at Goddard, the recovery flattened last winter and will likely reverse after this melt season.
«This year is the fourth lowest, and yet we haven't seen any major weather event or persistent weather pattern in the Arctic this summer that helped push the extent lower as often happens,» said Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
«We started from a low September minimum extent,» said Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
«This is IceBridge's ninth year in the Arctic and we're expecting this to be one of our most extensive campaigns to date,» said Nathan Kurtz, Operation IceBridge's project scientist and a sea ice scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Bruce C. Elder, a sea ice scientist at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, worked with Cornelissen and Haas last year on an international ice study called CryoVEx.
The atmospheric warmth probably contributed to this lowest maximum extent, with air temperatures up to 10 degrees Fahrenheit above average at the edges of the ice pack where sea ice is thin, said Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
«The winter maximum gives you a head start, but the minimum is so much more dependent on what happens in the summer that it seems to wash out anything that happens in the winter,» Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, explained in a recent statement.
«There are very strong regional variations on how sea ice is changing,» said Nathan Kurtz, a sea ice scientist at Goddard.
«It has been a record year so far for global temperatures, but the record high temperatures in the Arctic over the past six months have been even more extreme,» says Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
«We haven't seen any major weather event or persistent weather pattern in the Arctic this summer that helped push the extent lower, as often happens,» said Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
The global trend in rising temperatures is outpaced by the regional warming in the Arctic, said Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist at NASA Goddard.
But according to Joey Comiso, a sea ice scientist at Goddard, the recovery flattened last winter and will likely reverse after this melt season.
«This year is the fourth lowest, and yet we haven't seen any major weather event or persistent weather pattern in the Arctic this summer that helped push the extent lower as often happens,» said Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.