Sentences with phrase «summer ice extent»

A slight decline in summer ice extent is appropriate for the warming that occurred from 1980 to 2000.

They assumed the decrease in summer ice extent would continue.

Shorter - term forecasts of summer ice extent are harder to make but are now in high demand.

«Seasonal Arctic summer ice extent still hard to forecast, study says.»

It seems very possible that we could have multiple years of quite stable summer ice extents until the weather again reinforces the anthropogenic changes and allows another large ice loss event (like in 2007).

It is summer and late summer ice extent and / or thickness that is most enlightening to the process of climate change.

A minimum extent approaching the value of 2007 and below - normal extent for the previous three summers suggest that summer ice extent continues to be governed by the loss of multiyear sea ice beginning in the 1990s.

The past six years have seen the lowest summer ice extent in three decades, reaching the lowest last September at about 3.61 million sq km.

It is true that the minimum summer ice extent in the arctic ocean in 2008 was 9.4 percent higher than the minimum in 2007.

Furthermore the Arctic remains dominated by thinner ice, which means declines in summer ice extent are expected to continue in future years.

A new study says year - to - year forecasts of the Arctic's summer ice extent are not yet reliable.

Shorefast ice conditions along the northeastern Chukchi Sea coast (Barrow to Wainwright) reflect the combination of late freeze - up after the 2012 record minimum summer ice extent and persistent westerly flow advecting warm air throughout fall and early winter.

Obviously, even at very high latitudes, sea water has a lower albedo than sea ice, so a net reduction of end - summer ice extent will result in a small reduction of our planet's overall albedo, as indicated

Disappearing Arctic sea ice — summer ice extent was at its lowest level in recorded history in 2007 and almost hit that level in 2008 — also will warm the Arctic Ocean, since a dark, ice - free sea absorbs more solar radiation than a white, ice - covered one.

So, in my opinion, actually, we are on the accelerating path and we probably will see, in the near future — next two, three years — another record minima ice extent observed by satellites, beating the last year, 2007 summer ice extent minimum.

The ice covering the Arctic Ocean has shrunk rapidly — 50 percent of the summer ice extent disappeared in just the last 20 years.