> (The cited source, (2006, Maslowski, Wieslaw) was unpublished at the > time the thesis was completed early this year -- I first started > looking into the Navy grad school info after seeing a report the Navy > was soon going to publish research along these lines, so it may well be > in press or in the pipeline by now. Perhaps some of the experts can > look.)
I would not call myself an expert, but I have been very interested in this issue for over five years, in fact since I read McPhee et al. 1998. I found this abstract by Maslowski et al. http://www.cosis.net/abstracts/EGU06/05892/EGU06-J-05892.pdf which confirms what I suspected. The multi-year ice has been thinning, but the extent has remained fairly stable which has fooled the scientists because they can only monitor the extent with their satellites. He also says that the warm water which is melting the ice is coming from the Pacific Ocean. If we do have a super El Nino next year, then the melting will be even more severe than it has been in the past. Cheers, Alastair. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
