Sentences with phrase «winter sea ice extent»

While winter sea ice extent in the Southern Ocean as a whole has changed little, the sea ice here begins to advance about 2 months later than it did in the 1980s and retreat about a month earlier.

The most recent predictions suggest that, contrary to expected long - term trends, we should expect near neutral maintenance, or even decadal growth, of winter sea ice extent in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic in coming years.

These researchers think they have found a direct relation between decreased Arctic winter sea ice extent and cold winters in Eurasia — or at least that is what their ECHAM climate model runs suggested.

This talks about whether increase in winter sea ice extent can be attributed to ozone hole.They note that the seasonal patterns of sea ice increase and melt are not consistent with their modelled response to ozone depletion.

Since 1979, winter sea ice extent has decreased 3.2 percent per decade (the loss is much more pronounced in summer at a rate of 13.4 percent per decade).

Since that time, winter sea ice extent has dropped 3.2 percent per decade, while the summer minimum has seen an even steeper drop of 13.7 percent per decade.

And as we understand above, winter sea ice extent is not going to have any effect because there is little or no sun in the winter.

Winter sea ice extent is increasing slightly, but the land based ice, on the whole, is melting.

In late March, just after satellites measured the lowest - ever Arctic winter sea ice extent, hurricane - force winds pushed a flotilla of icebergs into Atlantic shipping lanes near northeastern Canada.

It is also noteworthy that winter sea ice extent in individual years is not well correlated with subsequent ice melts and the resulting summer minimum.