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Arctic sea ice boosted by a THIRD during unusually cold summer of 2013, study reveals
PUBLISHED: 12:33 EST, 20 July 2015 | UPDATED: 13:01 EST, 20 July 2015
Arctic sea ice received a surprising boost in 2013 thanks to an unusually cool summer, a new study reveals.
The ... region increased its volume by a third, figures reveal, as temperatures dropped dramatically for the first time since the 1990s.
It meant there were 5 per cent fewer 'melting days' - warm days when the ice physically melts away.
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An unusually cool summer in 2013 saw the Arctic sea ice volume increase by a third (2013 fall pictured)
These diagrams show the region in spring of (L-R) 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. Diagram (i) is notably thicker
The study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, is the first analysis of the entire ice caps volume.
Researchers used 88 million measurements of sea ice thickness recorded by the European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 mission between 2010 and 2014.
The results showed that there was a 14 per cent reduction in the volume of summertime Arctic sea ice between 2010 and 2012 - but the volume of ice jumped by 41 per cent in 2013, relative to the previous year, when the summer was five per cent cooler than the previous year.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...-summer-2013-study-reveals.html#ixzz3geyBLG7F
- Ice pack in Northern hemisphere increased by a third relative to 2012
- Unusually low temperatures allowed ice to spread northwest of Greenland
- The region hasn't seen summers that cold since the 1990s, study said
- It suggests the region could be more susceptible to changes than thought
PUBLISHED: 12:33 EST, 20 July 2015 | UPDATED: 13:01 EST, 20 July 2015
Arctic sea ice received a surprising boost in 2013 thanks to an unusually cool summer, a new study reveals.
The ... region increased its volume by a third, figures reveal, as temperatures dropped dramatically for the first time since the 1990s.
It meant there were 5 per cent fewer 'melting days' - warm days when the ice physically melts away.
+3
An unusually cool summer in 2013 saw the Arctic sea ice volume increase by a third (2013 fall pictured)
These diagrams show the region in spring of (L-R) 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. Diagram (i) is notably thicker
The study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, is the first analysis of the entire ice caps volume.
Researchers used 88 million measurements of sea ice thickness recorded by the European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 mission between 2010 and 2014.
The results showed that there was a 14 per cent reduction in the volume of summertime Arctic sea ice between 2010 and 2012 - but the volume of ice jumped by 41 per cent in 2013, relative to the previous year, when the summer was five per cent cooler than the previous year.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...-summer-2013-study-reveals.html#ixzz3geyBLG7F
