Boulder, Colorado (USA), March 30, 2016 – The Arctic ice has established another record low. The warning scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder University in Colorado (NSIDC) and NASA have released data on the state of the Arctic ice cap, it never found so reduced during the winter season.
From the data showed that the Arctic sea ice hit a record low the maximum extent for the second consecutive year, as many as 20 thousand less than the previous record low set in 2015.
“i have never seen an atmosphere so hot, the winter was crazy in the Arctic. The heat was relentless. Air temperatures over the Arctic Ocean for the months of December, January and February were from 2 to 6 degrees Celsius (4 to 11 degrees Fahrenheit) above average in almost all regions, “said the director of the NSIDC Mark Serreze.
the extent of the ice at the North Pole, in March, reached a historic low of 14.52 million square kilometers, 1.6 million in less than 37 years ago.
According to scientists at the NSIDC, the sea ice extent was below average across the Arctic, except in the Labrador Sea, in Baffin Bay and Hudson Bay. The extension is particularly low in the Barents Sea. As noted by:
“A decrease in the extent of the Barents Sea ice this winter was predicted by the influence of warm Atlantic water from the Sea of Norway “comments Ingrid Onarheim the Bjerknes Centre for climate research in Bergen, Norway.
in this last winter tail of the ice sheet growth that covers the Arctic ocean has been slow. He hoped for an extension of ice in late February, but growth has been slow in the last six weeks. The maximum would have touched in mid-March but the ice continued to retreat, and with the approach of spring and summer will continue to shrink until September.
“The Arctic is in crisis. Year after year, is slipping into a new state and it is hard to deny that all this will have an effect on the climate throughout the Northern Hemisphere, “said Ted Scambos, lead scientist of the NSIDC.
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