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No record, but Arctic sea ice will be among 10 lowest
2014-08-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The extent of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean at the end of the summer season likely won't surpass the record low of 2012, but 2014 will still likely rank as one of the lowest minimum extents (or areas) in the record books. Arctic sea ice extent for July 15, 2014 was 3.22 million square miles. The orange line shows the 1981 to 2010 average extent for that month. That's according to Julienne Stroeve, a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. "It's likely that it...
16-foot Waves Measured Arctic Ocean Where Once Only Ice
2014-07-31 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Sixteen-foot waves are buffeting an area of the Arctic Ocean that until recently was permanently covered in sea ice-another sign of a warming climate, scientists say. Because wave action breaks up sea ice, allowing more sunlight to warm the ocean, it can trigger a cycle that leads to even less ice, more wind, and higher waves. (See "Shrinking Arctic Ice Prompts Drastic Change in National Geographic Atlas.") Scientists had never measured waves in the Beaufort Sea, an area north of Alaska, until...
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Sixteen-foot swells reported in once frozen region of Arctic Ocean
2014-07-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Big waves like those fit for surfing are not what we think of when contemplating the Arctic Ocean. The water is ice-covered most of the time -- and it takes large expanses of open sea plus wind to produce mighty surf. So the fact that researchers have now measured swells of more than 16 feet in the Arctics Beaufort Sea, just north of Alaska, is a bit of a stunner. Swells of that size, researchers say, have the potential to break up Arctic ice even faster than the melt underway there for decades...
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Humongous Waves in the Arctic Ocean Measured for the First Time Ever
2014-07-30 03:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Softpedia: A recent paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letter announces a world first for research projects focusing on the natural world and on how climate change and global warming are reshaping nature as we know it. In a nutshell, the paper in question details how, using a high-tech sensor anchored to the seafloor, scientist Jim Thomson and fellow researchers managed to measure the height of humongous waves in the Arctic Ocean. As detailed in a press release concerning this investigation, the sensor...
Scientists begin hi-tech quest for Arctic sea ice answers
2014-07-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: An international team of scientists plan to spend months watching ice melt. But although it will take longer and cost a lot more than watching paint dry, it will be much more interesting and rewarding. A sophisticated array of automatic sensors will allow scientists to conduct the longest ever monitoring program to determine the precise physics of summer sea ice melt in the Arctic. They plan to discover just how the Arctic ice retreats, the rate at which it melts, and the oceanographic processes...
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