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91-100 of 1003 results for Arctic Ice

Antarctic sea ice reaches an early winter record low in June 2023

Section: News & Features

Published: June 28, 2023

from the long-term average, even substantial ones, have been observed before. Compared to the Arctic, Antarctic sea ice exhibits a greater range of maximum and minimum annual extents, due largely to g ...

Visualizing the 2012 Sea Ice Minimum

Section: Teaching Climate

Published: February 12, 2024

slider tool, without the text, or could paraphrase or simplify text. CLEAN resource [link ' Arctic Sea Ice 2012'] is a video that addresses Arctic sea ice extent over a similar time period. The amount ...

Ice is Water, Water is Ice

Section: Teaching Climate

Published: December 2, 2024

concepts to be used with students PreK-2 and 3-5. A variety of possibilities are given for both ice melting and ice freezing activities as well as types of measurements that can be used with students ...

Polar Opposites: the Arctic and Antarctic

Section: News & Features

Published: July 10, 2011

in the satellite record and 31 percent below the 1979-2000 average. Long-term trends in Arctic ice remain consistent with a warming climate. Both winter maximum (March) and summer minimum (September) ...

2013 Arctic Report Card: Sea ice extent larger than 2012 record low, but still sixth smallest on record

Section: News & Features

Published: December 9, 2013

Arctic sea ice reached its annual minimum extent on September 13, 2013, dipping to 1.97 million square miles (5.10 million square kilometers). Averaged over the month, sea ice extent was 2.07 million ...

Antarctica is colder than the Arctic, but it's still losing ice

Section: News & Features

Published: March 12, 2019

to the Arctic, Antarctica is responding less rapidly to climate change. Water's melting point, 32°F, is a critical threshold for rapid change in polar regions, and only a small fraction of the snow on ...

How warm winters and low ice may impact the Great Lakes

Section: News & Features

Published: March 18, 2024

on data from NOAA GLERL, created with Datawrapper. However, a lack of strong and prolonged Arctic air events, coupled with record-warm to much warmer than normal temperatures across the region in Febr ...

Arctic-Global Linkages

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: October 12, 2016

around the planet. Changes in the Arctic could affect ocean circulation around the world. As Arctic ice melts, the Arctic Ocean receives an influx of fresh, relatively warm water, reducing its salinit ...

Understanding the Arctic polar vortex

Section: News & Features

Published: March 5, 2021

could slow the rate of winter warming in the mid-latitudes while accelerating it in the Arctic. A stronger polar vortex, with few disruptions might be expected to slow Arctic warming at the expense of ...

A Warmer World for Arctic Animals

Section: Teaching Climate

Published: February 12, 2024

may wish to introduce the more advanced vocabulary. As apex predators, polar bears, walruses, Arctic foxes, and beluga whales are all affected by changes in the Arctic food web as a result of climate ...