A revised outlook for the Arctic 2008 summer sea ice minimum shows ice extent will be below the 2005 level but not likely to beat the 2007 record. DAMOCLES will dispatch eleven ...
... ever before. Each year at the end of summer, sea ice in the Arctic melts to reach its annual ... warmer ocean surface temperatures that led to melting of the ice from below.
"Based on what we've learned ...
... Envisat and other satellite datasets indicated that the Northern Sea Route opened when a path through the Vilkitski ... recovery.
"Although last year's summer sea ice minimum extent record was not broken ...
... increase over 56 years in maximum summer sea ice speeds from about 20 centimeters per ... likelihood this increasing trend and link between storminess and ice drift could expand the Arctic's role as a sink ...
... British scientists shows a significant loss in the
thickness of the northern ice cap after the record loss ... recedes the water temperature
rises. This summer the sea ice recorded its second-lowest extent ...
LONDON (Reuters) - British explorer Pen Hadow is to return to the North Pole five years after his record solo trek, in an attempt to establish when Arctic summer sea ice will disappear for good.
Record summer sea ice losses in the Arctic Ocean are now leading to bursts of ocean life in the newly open waters, say researchers watching the north polar sea from space.
... , Walker's group found that between 1982 and 2007, summer sea-ice cover declined by 27 percent ... water from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf this summer as part of the International Siberian Shelf Study ...
... :
Taken together, the size and speed of the summer sea-ice loss over the last few decades is ... that changes in Earth's orbit over this time have made sea-ice melting less, not more, likely.
Sustained ...
... cycles that further accelerate warming as snow and ice cover retreat.
In the Antarctic, in contrast, the impact ... want to try to stop the Arctic summer sea ice from melting completely over the next few ...
... summer sea ice goes, the Arctic will lose the ivory
gull, Pacific walrus, ringed ... seal, narwhal and polar
bear--all animals that rely on the ice for foraging, reproduction
or as refuge from predators ...
... climate change, such as the loss of major ice sheets, accelerated sea level rise and abrupt ... state. These include the rapid retreat of the summer sea ice in the Arctic ocean, the retreat of mountain ...
