Sentences with phrase «total sea ice volume»

In the end, total sea ice volume grew by 373 km3 during April, which is the largest increase in the 2007 - 2018 period, almost 200 km3 above average.

At close to 8,000 cubic kilometres (cubic km), total sea ice volume in November stood at just 48 % of the long - term average and the smallest of any November in the satellite record stretching back to 1979.

Not exact matches

According to the latest Piomas data, a combination of the smallest sea ice extent and the second - thinnest ice cover on record puts total volume of sea ice in November 2016 at a record low for this time of year.

Is the total volume of Arctic sea ice also declining?

The typical estimate of the sea - level change is five metres, a value arrived at by taking the total volume of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, converting it to water and spreading it evenly across the oceans.

PIOMAS has been used in a wide range of applications but arguably the most popular product has been the time series of total Arctic sea ice volume which we have been putting out since March 2010 (see also Fig 1).

The sampling issues arise from the fact that sea ice is highly dynamic with lots of spatial and seasonal variability so that measurements from individual moorings, submarine sonar tracks, and aircraft flights can only construct an incomplete picture of the evolution of the total Arctic sea ice volume.

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I sent some questions to some of the authors of the new study showing how much the thickness and total volume of Arctic sea ice have declined since 2003.

This work concerns only sea ice extent without considerations of the age, thickness, and total volume of sea ice.

(d, e) Total area of Arctic sea ice and AMOC volume transport as a function of time in the CTL, LW, and SW experiments.

Given the close correlation between latent heat of fusion and net energy in the Arctic, this excellent animation of sea ice volume gives one of the indications of the total energy in the Arctic.

All of these characteristics (except for the ocean temperature) have been used in SAR and TAR IPCC (Houghton et al. 1996; 2001) reports for model - data inter-comparison: we considered as tolerable the following intervals for the annual means of the following climate characteristics which encompass corresponding empirical estimates: global SAT 13.1 — 14.1 °C (Jones et al. 1999); area of sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere 6 — 14 mil km2 and in the Southern Hemisphere 6 — 18 mil km2 (Cavalieri et al. 2003); total precipitation rate 2.45 — 3.05 mm / day (Legates 1995); maximum Atlantic northward heat transport 0.5 — 1.5 PW (Ganachaud and Wunsch 2003); maximum of North Atlantic meridional overturning stream function 15 — 25 Sv (Talley et al. 2003), volume averaged ocean temperature 3 — 5 °C (Levitus 1982).

Because of the dramatic thinning, the total volume of sea ice is shrinking even faster than its area.

The PIOMAS sea ice volume estimates, based on a model constrained by satellite extent observations, indicate a total volume through May in line with recent years, though not at a record low (Figure 7).

That's the case in Antarctica, which is geographically very different to the Arctic, where an increase in surface sea ice area, but not total volume, is currently being observed due to increased precipitation and increased surface water run off.