What researchers have found hasn't been encouraging, at least for polar bears:
summertime sea ice extent in 2007 fell half below average for the past three decades.
Summertime sea ice extent in the Arctic has been remarkably low since 2007 and the ensuing years have been marked by some notable cold air outbreaks.
Not exact matches
This year's record low
sea ice maximum
extent might not necessarily lead to a new record low
summertime minimum
extent, since weather has a great impact on the melt season's outcome, Meier said.
Antarctic
sea ice extent reached its
summertime minimum on March 3, at 813,000 square miles (2.11 million square kilometers).
Lukovich and Barber: The results from an investigation of stratospheric circulation in winter and spring, and comparison of
summertime surface winds and SLP with vortex splitting and minima in
sea ice extent composites suggested that the September, 2009
ice extent would be comparable to or less than the September
ice extent minimum in 2008, based on dynamic considerations.
Arctic
Sea Ice Summertime Minimum Is Fourth Lowest on Record According to a NASA analysis of satellite data, the 2015 Arctic sea ice minimum extent is the fourth lowest on record since observations from space beg
Sea Ice Summertime Minimum Is Fourth Lowest on Record According to a NASA analysis of satellite data, the 2015 Arctic sea ice minimum extent is the fourth lowest on record since observations from space beg
Ice Summertime Minimum Is Fourth Lowest on Record According to a NASA analysis of satellite data, the 2015 Arctic
sea ice minimum extent is the fourth lowest on record since observations from space beg
sea ice minimum extent is the fourth lowest on record since observations from space beg
ice minimum
extent is the fourth lowest on record since observations from space began.