This pattern helped to accelerate ice loss in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas,
where ice loss rates doubled in August.
Not exact matches
The
loss, in recent decades, of thousands of square miles of sea
ice has accelerated warming in the Arctic,
where temperatures are increasing at two to three times the
rate of the globe as a whole.
Clearly there are periods in the reconstruction
where rapid
rates of
ice loss occurred, but what stands out is that the length and
rate of present day melt is unprecedented in the entire 1,450 year - long reconstruction.