Sentences with phrase «summer sea ice loss»

Three (3) respondents suggest a return toward the long term trend line of summer sea ice loss.

The spread of Outlook contributions suggests about a 29 % chance of reaching a new September sea ice minimum in 2010 and only an 18 % chance of an extent greater than the 2009 minimum (or a return to the long - term trend for summer sea ice loss).

Rate of Arctic summer sea ice loss is 50 % higher than predicted New satellite images show polar ice coverage dwindling in extent and thickness

Summer meteorological current conditions and projections this summer (see Figures 9 - 11) do not favor extreme mid to late summer sea ice loss in 2016, as occurred in 2007 and 2012, despite low sea ice extents at the beginning of summer.

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.

Thus, despite the higher September 2013 sea ice extent relative to the previous five years, the Arctic is primed for continued summer sea ice loss with large interannual variability.

Eight (8) respondents suggest a return toward the long - term trend line of summer sea ice loss (pre-2007 long - term trend of approximately 10 % loss per decade),

Outlooks are not forecasts; their purpose is to promote a discussion of the physics and factors influencing summer sea ice loss.

Rate of Arctic summer sea ice loss is 50 % higher than predicted.

2012's apparent descent toward a new record low in extent and area is dramatic enough, but it also comes as new analysis shows that summer sea ice loss is 50 % more than previously thought in terms of volume, according to preliminary satellite data from CyroSat 2.

British scientist John Nissen, chairman of the Arctic Methane Emergency Group (of which Wadhams is a member), suggests that if the summer sea ice loss passes «the point of no return,» and «catastrophic Arctic methane feedbacks» kick in, we'll be in an «instant planetary emergency.»

Five (5) respondents suggested a less dramatic loss than in 2007 (ie., 4.3 million square kilomoters)-- closer toward the long - term trend line of summer sea ice loss;

Of the individual responses that included quantitative outlooks, three (3) suggest a return toward the long - term trend of summer sea ice loss; six (6) anticipate the 2008 extent to be close to the 2007 record minimum; five (5) respondents suggest additional ice loss compared to the 2007 minimum.

Different seasonal progressions of summer sea ice loss are apparent in daily time series of sea ice extent from different years (Figure 4).

Different timing of summer sea ice loss is apparent in daily time series of sea ice extent, which show that the most rapid sea ice loss in 2007 was in late June — early July, while in 2008 it was in August (Fig. 2).