Sentences with phrase «setting sea ice cover»

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Arctic sea ice cover grows each winter as the sun sets for several months, and shrinks each summer as the sun rises higher in the northern sky.

And, as Walt Meier of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center noted here, Antarctic sea ice already covers a huge area — it doesn't take much growth for it to set a new record.

[Response: This is a very frequent error (Watts has made it many times before), and stems from their confusion between the HadCRUT data set (which is a collaboration between the Hadley Centre (providing SST and sea ice cover) and the CRU (which provides the met station analysis) and the actual institutions (which are completely independent and separated by a couple of hundred miles).

RSS set their north pole band up to 82.5 N, and this includes large areas covered by sea ice.

Since the level of Arctic sea ice set a new record low in 2007, significantly above - normal winter snow cover has been seen in large parts of the northern United States, northwestern and central Europe, and northern and central China.

One is the HADISST sea ice and sea surface temperature data set from the Hadley Centre (which also covers the southern hemisphere), the other is from Kinnard et al. (2008).

Ever since satellites allowed a detailed view of the Arctic and its ice, a pronounced decrease in summer sea ice cover has been observed (with this year setting a new record low).

Arctic sea ice cover grows each winter as the sun sets for several months, and shrinks each summer as the sun rises higher in the northern sky.

Global sea ice set a clear record low in the first half of 2017, driven in large part by record low Antarctic sea ice cover.

The extent of Bering Sea ice cover this year has so far exceeded that of the previous two years, he added, because the extraordinary and record - setting low sea - ice formation of the past two winters mainly were due to a couple of short - term factors: a strong El Nino and an unusually persistent warm - water mass in the north Pacific commonly called «The Blob.&raqSea ice cover this year has so far exceeded that of the previous two years, he added, because the extraordinary and record - setting low sea - ice formation of the past two winters mainly were due to a couple of short - term factors: a strong El Nino and an unusually persistent warm - water mass in the north Pacific commonly called «The Blob.&raqsea - ice formation of the past two winters mainly were due to a couple of short - term factors: a strong El Nino and an unusually persistent warm - water mass in the north Pacific commonly called «The Blob.»

Serreze says if warm air and sea - surface temperatures persist, the 2017 maximum could set yet another record for even less sea - ice cover.

Deriving long - term time series of sea ice cover from satellite passivemicrowave multisensor data sets.

Abstract Arctic sea ice data from the 1953 — 77 period are digitized onto a set of 300 monthly grids covering the polar cap.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center announced Wednesday that the sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean has smashed the previous record minimum extent set in 2007 by a staggering 18 perceIce Data Center announced Wednesday that the sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean has smashed the previous record minimum extent set in 2007 by a staggering 18 perceice covering the Arctic Ocean has smashed the previous record minimum extent set in 2007 by a staggering 18 percent.