Sentences with phrase «sea ice thickness continues»

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This is because the «early camp» are missing a major factor, even though most of them don't know it: That factor is that first year sea ice will continue to grow to thicknesses of around 1.5 to 2m through the winter, so the key issue in whether September can be virtually sea - ice free is how much sea ice can be lost between March and September.

Although the sea ice extent has held up since 2007, the thickness has declined; but the extent can not continue to hold up indefinitely while the thickness continues to decline.

The mean ice concentration anomaly for June 2013 is 0.9 x 106 square kilometers greater than June 2012, however Arctic sea ice thicknesses and volumes continue to remain the lowest on record.

In response to your question I would refer you to my comment above Dave Wendt (14:39:39): where I discuss the Rigor and Wallace paper of 2004 which demonstrated that the decline in sea ice age and thickness began with a shift in state in Beaufort Gyre and the TransPolar Drift in 1989 which resulted in multiyear ice declining from over 80 % of the Arctic to 30 % in about one year and that the persistence of that pattern has been responsible for the continuing decline.

From the atmospheric temperature rise to the acidification of the sea, from ice thickness and extent to sea levels, we really need to continue to know what is going on.