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Arctic sea ice reaches new record low mark for wintertime
2016-03-29 06:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Arctic sea ice hit a record low level for the second straight year this month amid high winter temperatures over the Arctic Ocean, according to scientists. The National Snow and Ice Data Centre says ice covered a maximum of 5.607 million square miles of the Arctic Ocean in 2016. That's 5,000 square miles less than the old record set in 2015 - a difference slightly smaller than the state of Connecticut. It's also 431,000 square miles less than the 30-year average. That difference is the size...
2016 Arctic sea ice wintertime extent hits another record low
2016-03-29 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Arctic sea ice appears to have reached a record low wintertime maximum extent for the second year in a row, according to scientists at the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and NASA. Every year, the cap of frozen seawater floating on top of the Arctic Ocean and its neighboring seas melts during the spring and summer and grows back in the fall and winter months, reaching its maximum yearly extent between February and April. On March 24, Arctic sea ice extent peaked at 5.607...
Arctic sea ice extent breaks record low for winter
2016-03-28 22:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A record expanse of Arctic sea never froze over this winter and remained open water as a season of freakishly high temperatures produced deep and likely irreversible changes on the far north. Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre said on Monday that the sea ice cover attained an average maximum extent of 14.52m sq km (5.607m sq miles) on 24 March, the lowest winter maximum since records began in 1979. The low beats a record set only last year of 14.54m sq km (5.612m sq miles),...
Arctic submarine maneuvers test capability below the ice
2016-03-28 21:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Alaska Public Radio: Diminishing Arctic Ocean ice due to climate warming has been blamed for everything from changing weather patterns to the decline of animals that rely on frozen habitat. But submarines? Seriously, the US Navy has studied the Arctic ice for over half a century, using submarines to explore changes beneath the frozen surface. This invaluable data has a dual purpose. Picture this.. an unbroken landscape of white stretching beyond the horizon. Suddenly, something dark breaks through from below, pushing...
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Climate change: Greenland melting tied to shrinking Arctic sea ice
2016-03-28 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Vanishing Arctic sea ice. Dogged weather systems over Greenland. Far-flung surface ice melting on the massive island. These dramatic trends and global sea-level rise are linked, according to a study coauthored by Jennifer Francis, a research professor in Rutgers University's Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences. During Greenland summers, melting Arctic sea ice favors stronger and more frequent “blocking-high” pressure systems, which spin clo…
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