After the maximum was reached, the trend line flattened, with
sea ice volume going down by a meagre 91 km3 from the 16th to the end of the month, which can clearly be seen on Wipneus» version of the PIOMAS graph:
Hmmm... tick - tock, ocean heat content goes higher and higher, greenhouse gas concentrations go higher and higher, Arctic
sea ice volume goes lower and lower, ocean PH goes lower and lower, Greenland and Antarctic glacial mass goes lower and lower... my, that all - powerful AMO better hurry back real soon...
In that case it is important to have a more precise statement, so I
went back to check the reference Journal of Marine Systems
Volume 48, Issues 1 - 4, July 2004, Pages 133 - 157
Sea ice from the Kara Sea region reaches Fram Strait from 2 to 4 years (min 2 years) on average, and while sea ice from the Laptev Sea takes roughly 4 — 6 years (min 3 years) to reach Fram Strait»... from the East Siberian, Chukchi and Beaufort seas within 6 — 10 yea
Sea ice from the Kara
Sea region reaches Fram Strait from 2 to 4 years (min 2 years) on average, and while sea ice from the Laptev Sea takes roughly 4 — 6 years (min 3 years) to reach Fram Strait»... from the East Siberian, Chukchi and Beaufort seas within 6 — 10 yea
Sea region reaches Fram Strait from 2 to 4 years (min 2 years) on average, and while
sea ice from the Laptev Sea takes roughly 4 — 6 years (min 3 years) to reach Fram Strait»... from the East Siberian, Chukchi and Beaufort seas within 6 — 10 yea
sea ice from the Laptev
Sea takes roughly 4 — 6 years (min 3 years) to reach Fram Strait»... from the East Siberian, Chukchi and Beaufort seas within 6 — 10 yea
Sea takes roughly 4 — 6 years (min 3 years) to reach Fram Strait»... from the East Siberian, Chukchi and Beaufort
seas within 6 — 10 years.
Though the Tibetan earthquake was
going to happen at some time, it is possible that changes in
ice loading on Himalayan glaciers, changes in water
volume outflows in the annual Asian monsoon, and
sea level rise adding pressure to the geological plates below coastlines — especially in low - lying Bangladesh — had an impact.