Sentences with phrase «slow summer sea»

The average surface air temperature for the year ending September 2017 is the 2nd warmest since 1900; however, cooler spring and summer temperatures contributed to a rebound in snow cover in the Eurasian Arctic, slower summer sea ice loss, and below - average melt extent for the Greenland ice sheet.

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The major effect of a slowing AMOC is expected to be cooler winters and summers around the North Atlantic, and small regional increases in sea level on the North American coast,» explained Chambers.

The spring melt began a month earlier than normal, and though the pace of decline slowed some over the summer, the Bering and Chukchi Seas along Alaska's coast remained ice - free longer into the fall than ever before.

As the sun begins its seasonal descent in the Arctic sky and temperatures drop, the summer melt of sea ice is slowing down.

It is likely that there has been about a 40 percent decline in Arctic sea - ice thickness during late summer to early autumn in recent decades and a considerably slower decline in winter sea - ice thickness.

In addition, we discuss why this recent rapid retreat of Arctic summer sea ice might largely be a consequence of a slow shift in ice - thickness distribution, which will lead to strongly increased year - to - year variability of the Arctic summer sea - ice extent.

Ice loss during the second half of August was in fact the slowest observed during the last decade, resulting in the observed, unexceptional September sea ice extent being recorded despite the extremely low ice conditions present at the start of the summer.

Another indication that the Arctic sea ice retreat is a «regional event» is that late - summer Antarctic sea extent has been growing (at a slower rate than the Arctic sea ice retreat).