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Arctic Cyclone Had Insignificant Impact on 2012 Ice Retreat
2013-01-31 17:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Last summer, after an extraordinary storm swirled across the Arctic Ocean, churning sea ice like some great Waring blender, much was speculated about the cyclone`s role in the enormous retreat of sea ice that followed. A new modeling study by the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington, replaying last summer`s Arctic Ocean ice conditions with and without the storm, shows that the short-term influence of all that ice churning probably played almost no role in the final ice retreat...
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