Sentences with phrase «thickness of the sea ice»

The average thickness of the sea ice over the entire north polar ice cap is only a few meters!

The research, reported in Geophysical Research Letters, showed that last winter the average thickness of sea ice over the whole Arctic fell by 26 cm (10 %) compared with the average thickness of the previous five winters, but sea ice in the western Arctic lost around 49 cm of thickness.

Varying thicknesses of sea ice are shown here, from thin, nearly transparent layers to thicker, older sea ice covered with snow.

The 2017 Arctic Report Card stated that ice is shrinking faster compared with the prior 500 years, and that «observations in 2017 continue to indicate that the Arctic environmental system has reached a «new normal», characterized by long - term losses in the extent and thickness of the sea ice cover, the extent and duration of the winter snow cover and the mass of ice in the Greenland Ice Sheet and Arctic glaciers, and warming sea surface and permafrost temperatures.»

Last winter the average thickness of sea ice over the whole Arctic fell by 26 cm (10 %) compared with the average thickness of the previous five winters, but sea ice in the western Arctic lost around 49 cm of thickness.

Norwegian and Chinese researchers have now collected a wealth of data about the optical properties and thickness of sea ice, providing a sound basis for further research.

Scientists still have a great deal to learn about the ice cover around the North Pole, not least about the full meaning of the thickness of sea ice.

AWI researchers observed a considerable decrease in the thickness of the sea ice as early as the late summer of 2015, even though the overall ice covered area of the September minimum ultimately exceeded the record low of 2012 by approximately one million square kilometres.

At the moment, the only way to measure the thickness of sea ice is to drill hundreds of ice cores.

Prior to this research, there was little information about the thickness of sea ice in the NWP, which meanders through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

From an altitude of just over 700 km, CryoSat will precisely monitor changes in the thickness of sea ice and variations in the thickness of the ice sheets on land.

Stéphanie Jenouvrier, a biologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the US, and colleagues from France and the Netherlands report in Nature Climate Change that changes in the extent and thickness of sea ice will create serious problems for a flightless, streamlined, survival machine that can live and even breed at minus 40 °C, trek across 120 kilometres of ice, and dive to depths of more than 500 metres.

As noted in previous months, this range depends in part on the relative weight that the respondents give to «initial conditions,» e.g., age and thickness of sea ice, versus whether summer winds in 2008 will be as supportive for ice loss as the favorable winds were in 2007.

Sea ice area isn't the only way to measure the health of Arctic sea ice; the thickness of the sea ice has also suffered during the repeated incursions of warmth.

Nathan Kurtz, IceBridge project scientist «The main purpose of these IceBridge flights is to measure the thickness of the sea ice.