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321-330 of 999 results for Arctic Ice

Reporting on the State of the Climate in 2018

Section: News & Features

Published: August 12, 2019

than normal. The report also documents key regional climate and climate-related events. * The Arctic continued to warm; maximum sea ice extent was near-record low. The annual mean surface air temperat ...

Wildfire still burning in Greenland tundra in mid-August 2017

Section: News & Features

Published: August 18, 2017

were occurring. (Bhatt and her colleagues do a similar assessment each year as part of the Arctic Report Card.) The satellite-based analysis confirmed that during past several decades, there has been ...

The polar vortex: coming out of hibernation

Section: News & Features

Published: December 4, 2024

that river of fast winds in the troposphere that keeps really cold surface air confined to the Arctic. So, at least at first glance, we wouldn't suspect the polar vortex to be to blame for the current ...

Wobbly polar vortex triggers extreme cold air outbreak

Section: News & Features

Published: January 8, 2014

inside the invisible bowl. The light purple line forming the outermost boundary of the cold Arctic air is the jet stream in its normal west-to-east pattern. In early January, the polar vortex weakened ...

Inuit Observations of Climate Change

Section: Teaching Climate

Published: February 12, 2024

students put observations on a worksheet or do in class. Video includes interviews from the Arctic Inuit community of Sachs Harbour, Northwest Territories, Canada about observed changes in Arctic clim ...

Another Wintry Winter for the Eastern U. S.

Section: News & Features

Published: February 8, 2011

La Niña, as temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific have been cooler than normal. But the Arctic Oscillation seems to be in a repeat pattern, with conditions this December and January very simila ...

Reporting on the State of the Climate in 2019

Section: News & Features

Published: August 12, 2020

in colder water. The report also documents key regional climate and climate-related events. The Arctic continued to warm; minimum sea ice extent was near-record low. The annual mean surface air temper ...

ENSO and… Antarctica! And penguins!

Section: News & Features

Published: December 18, 2020

are too many to list—check out the index page to see some of those. We've even visited the Arctic! Today, we'll add the fifth-largest continent, a vast, ice-covered disc at the bottom of the world, su ...

Alaskan Inuit Food Security Conceptual Framework: How to Assess the Arctic from an Inuit Perspective—Technical Report

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: October 3, 2016

The assessment tool is designed to build the baseline of information needed to understand the Arctic environment and allow a pathway for assessments (food security, ecosystem, political, cultural, etc ...

GISS Surface Temperature Analysis

Section: Teaching Climate

Published: February 12, 2024

much faster than the rest of the globe since the 1970s, which could lead to discussion of Arctic amplification from decreased albedo due to loss of sea ice) and hemispheres (Northern Hemisphere has be ...