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A rapidly declining arctic perennial sea ice cover
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Comiso, Josefino C. |
| Copyright Year | 2002 |
| Description | The perennial sea ice cover in the Arctic is shown to be declining at -8.9 plus or minus 2.0% per decade, using 22 years of satellite data. A sustained decline at this rate would mean the disappearance of the multiyear ice cover during this century and drastic changes in the seasonal characteristics of the Arctic ice cover. An apparent increase in the fraction of second year ice in the 1990s is also inferred suggesting an overall thinning of the ice cover while co-registered satellite surface temperatures show a warming trend of 0.8 plus or minus 0.6 K per decade in summer and a good correlation with the perennial ice data. |
| File Size | 747830 |
| Page Count | 19 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20020060091 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t01024574 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2002-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Oceanography Data Acquisition Annual Variations Oscillations Satellite Observation Arctic Regions Ocean Temperature Anomalies Sea Ice Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
