Sentences with phrase «summer sea ice extent»

The 2008 arctic summer sea ice extent minimum nearly matched the drastic reduction in minimum extent observed in 2007.

2016's low summer sea ice extent fits with the decades - long trend showing a rapid decrease in sea ice extent.

2016 tied 2007 as the year with the second smallest summer sea ice extent since record - keeping began in 1979.

Added to this is the concern that summer sea ice extent reached a minimum in 2007 and has actually been increasing since then.

It's important to note that the trend in summer sea ice extent is still downward, even if 2009 had more ice than 2007 and 2008.

Were the projections on Arctic summer sea ice extent from 2007 and 2011 by several major science groups «extreme»?.

The arctic summer sea ice extent minimum in September 2009 (5.36 million square kilometers) was greater than that observed in 2007 or 2008, but still much less than the 1979 — 2000 mean value (7.1 million square kilometers), based on NSIDC September mean estimates.

Comparing the dataset with modern satellite records, the researchers find that Antarctic summer sea ice extent was «surprisingly comparable» to what it is today.

Further, most model runs reach minimum 1.0 msk summer sea ice extents in the second half of the 21st century with a median near the year 2060.

On the text on the extent of Arctic sea ice, the UK asked about changes in Arctic sea ice thickness and the US about summer sea ice extent, to which the CLAs replied that this information is discussed in detail in the underlying assessment.

After summer sea ice extent dipped to its second - lowest on record, abnormally warm land and ocean temperatures slowed sea ice re-growth, leading 2016 to surpass the record year of 2012 for lowest sea ice extent on record in October (see Arctic sea ice extent image to the right).

2011 saw the 2nd lowest summer sea ice extent on record (after 2007), and even more dramatically, this year saw the lowest ever recorded volume of Arctic summer sea ice.

The arctic summer sea ice extent minimum in September 2008 almost matched the drastic reduction in minimum extent observed in 2007.

Ten out of ten of the lowest summer sea ice extents since 1979 occurred in the ten years leading up to and including 2016.

Wang, J., J. Zhang, E. Watanabe, M. Ikeda, K. Mizobata, J.E. Walsh, X. Bai, and B. Wu,» Is the dipole anomaly a major driver to record lows in arctic summer sea ice extent?»

Canadian Ice Service: A single partial - recovery year in terms of summer sea ice extent has no implications on its own — it might simply be the result of interannual variability or noise about the longer term trend.

However, the increase in sea ice extent for 2009 does not exceed past interannual variability in a near - continuous, 30 - year downward trend in summer sea ice extent.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center predicts this year's minimum summer sea ice extent won't break the record set in 2012.

Though sea ice didn't melt as much in 2009 as it did in the previous two years, NSIDC scientists believe that the long - term decline in summer sea ice extent will continue.

I think the other point is that summer sea ice extent is important because of its effect on albedo.

Then it began its freefall: over each decade since satellite records began in 1979, summer sea ice extent has shrunk by nearly 14 percent.

Below are several projection ensembles for future minimum summer sea ice extent (Fig. 7).

«The current rate of sea ice loss, and the reduced thickness of large areas of the ice remaining, suggests that we may see yet another record minimum in summer sea ice extent this year.»

The long - term trend in summer sea ice extent is still downward.

The age of sea ice drifting towards the coast explains over 50 % of the variance in summer sea ice extent (compared to less than 15 % of the variance explained by the seasonal redistribution of sea ice, and advection of heat by summer winds).

The study adds to the evidence showing that the free - fall in summer sea ice extent and even sharper decline in spring snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere is reverberating throughout the atmosphere, making extreme events more likely to occur.

WaPo points out that «the greatest number of polar bear attacks occurred in the partial decade of 2010 — 2014, which was characterized by historically low summer sea ice extent and long ice - free periods.»