Sentences with phrase «square kilometres below»

Despite temperatures at the beginning of 2017 not being record - breaking the sea ice area remained much lower than average during the first three months of the year, with January showing the lowest negative anomaly on record - 600,000 square kilometres below the 1981 - 2010 average for January.

LONDON, 9 June, 2016 − The cover of frozen water in the Arctic last month fell to more than 580,000 square kilometres below the previous record for May, set in 2004.

Not exact matches

Canadian Ice Service, 3.8, Heuristic Arctic Ocean September sea ice extents (while expected to be well below the 1979 ‐ 2013 average of 6.4 million square kilometres, and while expected to continue to be near or below 4.0 million square kilometres) are therefore expected to experience a slight recovery, preventing a repeat of last year's record.

The ice extent is about to drop below 4 million square kilometres for the first time in the satellite record, and the Arctic has shed almost half a million square kilometres of sea - ice in last five days!