Sentences with phrase «square kilometers of ice»

Ms. FERRIGNO: I think I'll go back 20 years, and in the last 20 years, I would say at least 20,000 square kilometers of ice has been lost, and that's comparable to an area somewhere between the state of Texas and the state of Alaska.

But don't believe that the Brits, Americans, Canadians, Norwegians, and Danes are all so incompetent that they managed to miss some three million square kilometers of ice.

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Almost exactly a year ago, a 251 - square - kilometer sheet of ice broke from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland and started slowly drifting into the open ocean.

Considering that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets span more than 1.7 million and 14 million square kilometers, respectively, while containing 90 % of the world's freshwater ice supply, melting of ice shelves could be catastrophic for low - lying coastal areas.

In 2004, they began monitoring Europe's largest ice field by area: Austfonna ice cap, a monster that is 560 meters thick in spots and straddles 8500 square kilometers, roughly the area of Puerto Rico.

The island was surrounded by a plain of glacial ice covering 1,500 square kilometers — 25 times the area of Manhattan.

Now that the close to 2,240 square - mile (5,800 square kilometers) chunk of ice has broken away, the Larsen C shelf area has shrunk by approximately 10 percent.

Next up, south of Larsen B and Scar Inlet, is the Larsen C ice shelf, which covers 49,000 square kilometers — twice as large as the state of Maryland, or about 820 Manhattans.

The Larsen Inlet ice shelf, a 350 - square - kilometer slab north of Larsen A, was present in a satellite photograph taken in 1986, but by the time another image was made in 1988, most of it was missing.

In a better world, it would be the big news of the year just to report that Arctic sea ice shrank to 4.14 million square kilometers this summer, well below the 1981 — 2010 average of 6.22 million square kilometers (SN Online: 9/19/16).

It's not a new phenomenon; this «thumb» of Antarctica, which juts out into the stormy Southern Ocean, has lost more than 28,000 square kilometers of floating ice — almost as large as Massachusetts — over the past half - century.

The minimum amount of ice cover each summer had fluctuated above and below six million square kilometers from 1979 through 2000.

Since that year the minimum ice cover has declined rapidly, dwindling to an all - time record low of 3.4 million square kilometers on September 16, 2012.

«So you see something in this one 4,000 - square - kilometer basin off the northeast coast of Venezuela, but you see similar changes in the Arabian Sea and in the tropical Pacific, and you can link it all back to changes seen in an ice sheet in Greenland.

Satellites from NASA and other agencies have been tracking sea ice changes since 1979, and the data show that Arctic sea ice has been shrinking at an average rate of about 20,500 square miles (53,100 square kilometers) per year over the 1979 - 2015 period.

Total sea ice cover on the Arctic Ocean peaked on March 7, satellite observations show, reaching a total area of 14.42 million square kilometers.

In Antarctica, this year's record low annual sea ice minimum of 815,000 square miles (2.11 million square kilometers) was 71,000 square miles (184,000 square kilometers) below the previous lowest minimum extent in the satellite record, which occurred in 1997.

The 2007 minimum occurred on September 18 of that year, when Arctic sea ice extent stood at 4.15 million square kilometers (1.60 million square miles).

Hawkings and his collaborators spent three months in 2012 and 2013 gathering water samples and measuring the flow of water from the 600 - square - kilometer (230 - square - mile) Leverett Glacier and the smaller, 36 - square - kilometer (14 - square - mile) Kiattuut Sermiat Glacier in Greenland as part of a Natural Environment Research Council - funded project to understand how much phosphorus, in various forms, was escaping from the ice sheet over time and draining into the sea.

Two years ago, Antarctica's Larsen B ice shelf collapsed over the course of 35 days; 3,250 square kilometers of shelf area — an area larger than that of Rhode Island — disintegrated.

Earlier this month — on 17 March — the extent of Arctic sea ice peaked at nearly 15 million square kilometers, covering an area roughly twice the size of Australia.

September 2012: Arctic sea ice reaches a record new low of 3.4 million square kilometers.

The new research solves this mystery by connecting the atmospheric waves to vibrations of the Ross Ice Shelf — the largest ice shelf in the world with an area of almost half a million square kilometers (188,000 miles), roughly the size of FranIce Shelf — the largest ice shelf in the world with an area of almost half a million square kilometers (188,000 miles), roughly the size of Franice shelf in the world with an area of almost half a million square kilometers (188,000 miles), roughly the size of France.

A: The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announced this week that the sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached its maximum extent — its widest halo around the continent — in 2014 on 22 September: more than 20 million square kilometers, which also set a record for the highest extent of sea ice around the continent since satellite measurements began in the late 197Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announced this week that the sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached its maximum extent — its widest halo around the continent — in 2014 on 22 September: more than 20 million square kilometers, which also set a record for the highest extent of sea ice around the continent since satellite measurements began in the late 197ice surrounding Antarctica reached its maximum extent — its widest halo around the continent — in 2014 on 22 September: more than 20 million square kilometers, which also set a record for the highest extent of sea ice around the continent since satellite measurements began in the late 197ice around the continent since satellite measurements began in the late 1970s.

But during the 6 weeks the researchers spent on the Gould documenting the interaction between humpbacks and krill in Wilhelmina Bay and nearby waters, they counted 306 humpbacks parked on the huge krill swarm, and a total of 500 throughout the unusually ice - free bay at the record - setting density of 5.1 whales per square kilometer.

Covering 1.59 million square miles (4.12 million square kilometers), this summer's sea ice shattered the previous record for the smallest ice cap of 2.05 million square miles (5.31 million square kilometers) in 2005 — a further loss of sea ice area equivalent to the states of California and Texas combined.

The Southern Hemisphere's unrelenting winds and frigid air froze ocean water into 7.6 million square miles (19.7 million square kilometers) of Antarctic sea ice this winter, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDice this winter, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDIce Data Center (NSIDC).

The giant ice island is 46 square miles (120 square kilometers), and separated from the terminus of the Petermann Glacier, one of Greenland's largest.

A 100 - meter - wide, kilometers - long rift in Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf could soon break off a 5,000 - square - kilometer chunk of ice into the ocean, scientists warn.

«Mauna Kea had a large glacial ice cap of about 70 square kilometers [27 square miles] until 14,500 years ago, which has now all disappeared,» said Peter Clark, a geoscientist at Oregon State University.

Arctic sea ice extent was below normal for the 11th consecutive April this year, covering an average of 5.7 million square miles (14.7 million square kilometers) 2.1 percent below the 1979 - 2000 average extent and the 15th smallest April extent since records began in 1979.

Dividing 3 meters into the volume of ice that our volcano melted, we find that it would cover an area of just under 30 billion meters square, or a little less than 30 thousand square kilometers.

Nat» l Public Radio in the US is reporting the ice shelf story at the moment, though it happened a while back: «The Ayles Ice Shelf — 66 square kilometers (41 square miles) of it — broke clear 16 months ago from the coast of Ellesmere Island....&raqice shelf story at the moment, though it happened a while back: «The Ayles Ice Shelf — 66 square kilometers (41 square miles) of it — broke clear 16 months ago from the coast of Ellesmere Island....&raqIce Shelf — 66 square kilometers (41 square miles) of it — broke clear 16 months ago from the coast of Ellesmere Island....»

The meters thick ice covering millions of square kilometers has enough thermal inertia to shrug off warm weather (at least it has for hundreds of thousands of years), but not resist a warming climate.

The coincidence of this area loss and a 30 square kilometer loss in 2008 with abnormal warmth this year, the setting of increasing sea surface temperatures and sea ice decline are all part of a climate warming pattern.

Today, the National Snow and Ice Data Center announced that the annual summer retreat of Arctic Ocean sea ice had reached a new low for the 33 - year satellite era of careful monitoring (1.58 million square miles, or 4.1 million square kilometers), and there is still another week or two of melting before the typical summer ice minimum occuIce Data Center announced that the annual summer retreat of Arctic Ocean sea ice had reached a new low for the 33 - year satellite era of careful monitoring (1.58 million square miles, or 4.1 million square kilometers), and there is still another week or two of melting before the typical summer ice minimum occuice had reached a new low for the 33 - year satellite era of careful monitoring (1.58 million square miles, or 4.1 million square kilometers), and there is still another week or two of melting before the typical summer ice minimum occuice minimum occurs.

13 (Danny Bloom) It's actually a very interesting horse race with this year's ice extent still two thirds of a million square kilometers more than last year at this same time.

With 19 responses for the Pan-Arctic Outlook (plus 6 regional Outlook contributions), the June Sea Ice Outlook projects a September 2012 arctic sea extent median value of 4.4 million square kilometers, with quartiles of 4.3 and 4.7 million square kilometers (Figure 1).

With regard to the Outlook estimates for the past two years, the median values for June outlooks for sea ice extent were within 0.1 million square kilometers (msk) of the observed values of 4.9 msk in 2010 and 4.6 msk in 2011.

This year set another new record, with ice covering more than 19.5 million square kilometers of ocean around Antarctica by September.

With regard to the Outlook estimates for the past three years, the median values for June outlooks for sea ice extent were within 0.1 million square kilometers (msk) of the observed values of 4.9 msk in 2010 and 4.6 msk in 2011, but the June Outlook value of 4.4 msk in 2012 was well above the extreme observed September value of 3.6 msk.

The Antarctic Ice Sheet extends almost 14 million square kilometers (5.4 million square miles), roughly the area of the contiguous United States and Mexico combined.

What we do not see in this image, but what clearly happened, was that an ice mass hundreds of meters tall and covering an area of about 12.5 square kilometers was shattered into flinders as warming ocean waters invaded the Greenland Ice Sheice mass hundreds of meters tall and covering an area of about 12.5 square kilometers was shattered into flinders as warming ocean waters invaded the Greenland Ice SheIce Sheet.

The only problem with all the predictions about the level of the World Ocean rising is that, the World Ocean is refusing to rise up in support of the predictions, the other problem is that ice is frozen fresh water and frozen fresh water only covers about 5 % of this planet above sea level and frozen water under the level of the World Ocean does not count as the World Ocean will fall a small amount if that ice melts, so if the ice there is enough to get the World Ocean to rise and significant amount then it must be piled up very high, I cubic kilometer of water as ice, should it melt, would make 1000 square kilometers rise by one meter, so when you use this simple math then somewhere on the planet, above the level of the sea, then there must be over 500,000 cubic kilometers of ice, piled up and just waiting to melt, strange that no one can find that amount of ice, all these morons who talk about the rise of the World Ocean in tens of meters, this includes you Peter Garrett or Mr. 7 Meters, the ice does not exist to allow this amount of rise in the World Ocean, it is just not there.

An ice sheet is a mass of glacial land ice extending more than 50,000 square kilometers (20,000 square miles).

Millions of square kilometers sea ice extent Month — last 5 years — baseline End July — 8.73 — 10.10 End Aug — 6.04 — 7.67 End Sep — 5.02 — 7.04 Average — 6.60 — 8.27 Difference 1.67 million square kilometers (msk) Cumulated loss = 20 %

Sea ice extent also continued its rapid decline with the Japanese Space Agency showing 4,800,000 square kilometers of sea ice extent, about equal to the third lowest measurement set in 2008.

The total area covered by thick older ice that survives one or more summers («multi-year ice») shrank 42 percent or 1.54 million square kilometers (595,000 square miles), leaving thinner first - year ice («seasonal ice») as the dominant type of ice in the region.

Sea ice extent fell to 4.10 million square kilometers (1.58 million square miles) on August 26, breaking the lowest extent on record set on September 18, 2007, of 4.17 million square kilometers (1.61 million square miles).

Arctic sea ice cover as of Wednesday reflects had already begun to slowly recede two weeks after it had reached its maximum extent for the winter of 2016 - 17 on March 7, when it reached 5.57 million square miles (14.42 million square kilometers).