Sentences with phrase «towards ice free summers»

In the Arctic, while this summer may not set a record for ice loss, the trend is solidly towards ice free summers — some scientists saying that we're 20 years ahead of schedule, based on past predictions, as to when that will occur.

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But one can see in this graph in an instant that while the ice MIGHT do different things, currently its trajectory is towards rapid collapse, and one senses immediately that Schweiger might still be in the middle of his unendingly bland sentence — «this analysis will change the predicted timing of the «ice free summer» but large uncertainties will likely remain.....

During the MIS 5 interstadials, a seasonal sea ice cover and ice - edge conditions seem to have been most prominent, with minimum sea ice concentrations towards almost ice - free summers during MIS 5e (Eemian)(Fig. 3b).