Arctic sea ice has reached its minimum extent (覆盖面积) for the year 2012,setting a record for the lowest summer cover since satellite data collection began.The sea ice extent has fallen to 3.41 million sq km on 18 September-50% lowerthan the 1979-2000 average.On August 26, sea ice ext...
Lingling SuoYongqi GaoDong GuoIngo BethkeEGU General Assembly Conference AbstractsSuo, L., Y. Gao, D. Guo and I. Bethke: Sea-ice free Arctic contributes to the projected warming minimum in the North Atlantic,
The Arctic sea ice has undergone a substantial long-term decline with superimposed interannual sea ice minimum (SIM) events over the last decades. This study focuses on the relationship between atmospheric circulation and the SIM events in the Arctic region. Four reanalysis products and simulations ...
According to researchers, the ocean is ice-free when it has less than 1 million square kilometers, or 386,000 square miles, of ice. That number represents less than 20% of the region's minimum ice cover in the 1980s. When will the Arctic be ice-free? "The first ice-free day in t...
However, the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change2 assessed that “it is likely that the Arctic Ocean in September, the month of annual minimum sea ice area, will become practically ice-free (SIA < 1 × 106 km2) averaged over 2081–2100 and ...
Arctic sea ice extent (SIE) achieves its minimum in September each year and this value has been observed to decline steeply over the satellite era of the past three decades. Yet large year-to-year fluctuations are also present in the September SIE and th
Atmospheric Impacts of an Arctic Sea Ice Minimum as Seen in the Community Atmosphere Model. Int. J. Climatol. 2014, 34, 766-779. [CrossRef]Cassano EN, Cassano JJ, Higgins ME, Serreze MC (2013) Atmospheric impacts of an Arctic sea ice minimum as seen in the Community Atmosphere Model. ...
Prediction of the arctic annual sea ice minimum extent and melting patterns draws interest from numerous industries and government agencies but has been an ongoing challenge for forecasters and climate scientists using statistical and dynamical models. Using the dominant independent modes of interannual se...
” will happen when the sea ice drops below one million square kilometers (386,102 square miles), writes Jonathan Bamber, a professor of physical geography at the University of Bristol, in theConversation. This equates to just 15 percent of the Arctic’s seasonal minimum ice cover of the...
“This year’s minimum sea ice extent shows that there is no sign that the sea ice cover is rebounding,” said Claire Parkinson, a climate change senior scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “The long-term trend for Arctic sea ice extent has been definit...