Sea Ice Extent: National Snow and Ice Data Center


	Sea Ice Extent: National Snow and Ice Data Center
amgumen
5-19-2008 9:51 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/66ce85e6-f799-48b5-a1a4-bc48aee654bc/27628BFF-4804-40FF-B3C8-D30A5F4703DE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/mar/global.html" href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/mar/global.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ncdc.noaa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/mar/global.html">the March 2008 Southern Hemisphere sea ice extent was much above the 1979-2000 mean. This was the largest sea ice extent in March <A href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/mar/sh-200803-seaice-ext-anom.prn">(28.6% above the 1979-2000 mean)</A> over the 30-year historical period, surpassing the previous record set in 1994 by 10.9%. Sea ice extent for March has increased at a rate of 4.2%/decade.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2008/mar/sh-seaice-200803-pg.gif" href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2008/mar/sh-seaice-200803-pg.gif" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ncdc.noaa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2008/mar/sh-seaice-200803-pg.gif"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/1F07BCB1-DA27-40EA-B97F-6D4F1C5B1D13" alt="The image “http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2008/mar/sh-seaice-200803-pg.gif” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/mar/global.html" href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/mar/global.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ncdc.noaa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/mar/global.html">the March 2008 Northern Hemisphere sea ice extent, which is measured from passive microwave instruments onboard NOAA satellites, was below the 1979-2000 mean, but greater than the previous four years. This was the sixth least March sea ice extent on record. <A href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/mar/nh-200803-seaice-ext-anom.prn">The past four years had the least March sea ice extent since records began in 1979</A>. Sea ice extent for March has decreased at a rate of 2.8%/decade (since satellite records began in 1979) as temperatures in the high latitude Northern Hemisphere have risen at a rate of approximately 0.37°C/decade over the same period.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2008/mar/nh-seaice-200803-pg.gif" href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2008/mar/nh-seaice-200803-pg.gif" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ncdc.noaa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2008/mar/nh-seaice-200803-pg.gif"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/182A8F61-B763-4FA2-9118-F368594323E4" alt="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2008/mar/nh-seaice-200803-pg.gif" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/27628BFF-4804-40FF-B3C8-D30A5F4703DE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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