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Minimum Sea Ice Comparison
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on Thursday November 01, @11:48AM
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st_0x0ef writes "NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has produced some animations showing the ice loss in the Arctic Sea. The change over the last 30 years is pretty impressive. The 2007 Arctic summer sea ice reached the lowest extent of perennial ice cover on record — nearly 25% less than the previous low set in 2005. The area of the perennial ice has been steadily decreasing since the satellite record began in 1979, at a rate of about 10% per decade. But the 2007 minimum, reached on September 14, is far below the previous record made in 2005 and is about 38% lower than the climatological average. Such a dramatic loss has implications for ecology, climate and industry."
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GIS Development has a small article about Satellite data showing a grim picture of Arctic ice melting. From the article: Scientists at NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center, which have monitored the ice via satellites since 1978, reported that the total Arctic ice in 2005 will cover the smallest area since they started measuring.
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