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Related: About this forumSea Ice May have reached minimum today. Conversation with scientist in arctic.
This afternoon I chatted with Dr. Julienne Stroeve of the National Snow and Ice Data Center from a research station in Svalbard, Norway, in the arctic circle. Sound only, her computer apparently had no camera.
Among the remarks she made:
Well, I think what this year shows us is that the ice cover was pretty darn thin, I mean,..there wasnt any sort of really amazing weather patterns like we saw in 2007, that were conducive for ice loss, I mean the weather pattern was pretty normal for most of the summer. And yet you lost quite a bit more ice than 2007, in fact were right now about 18 percent below the 2007 minimum.
So thats pretty substantial. It wasnt that you just made a new record, you pretty much beat it by quite a bit.
Q. Were 18 percent below?
A. Yeah. 18 percent. That actually is a bit surprising, which to me just indicates that the ice was pretty thin, and speaking with a colleague at London College, Dr. Seymour Laxon, hes been analyzing the cryosat data, and he said, yeah, the ice was thinner this year than it had been in the last several years.
So it would make sense then, I mean I think, certainly the storm in early August helped to break up the ice in the Chukchi, and East Siberian Sea, but the ice was melting out anyway, probably, because it was already pretty thin, by that point, and there was a lot of open water areas between the ice floes.
So, the storm just took it away really quickly. I think it would have melted out anyway though.
http://climatecrocks.com/2012/09/18/the-extent-increased-today-well-know-in-a-day-or-two-julienne-stroeve-on-sea-ice/
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Sea Ice May have reached minimum today. Conversation with scientist in arctic. (Original Post)
greenman3610
Sep 2012
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TrogL
(32,822 posts)1. Glad she thinks it was normal
I live a lot closer to the Arctic than you guys and it was damn hot all damn summer in a place where you don't keep your parka far from hand.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)3. Not the temperature, but the wind directions....
From what I understand, 2007 was considered an anomaly because the ice was blown out the Nares Strait.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)2. Du rec. Nt