Alastair McDonald wrote: > 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.
But the reduction in multi-year ice was the main focus of the Nghie, et al. paper. The trends in winter ice extent appear to be declining from other satellite measurements as well. Did you see the reference to Comiso's in-press report in the GRL? http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/157359main_Comiso_GRL06_AbrChArcWntrRevf1.pdf > 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. There's also some evidence of increased inflow of water from the North Atlantic. The Atlantic water has intruded further into the Arctic Ocean than previously seen. Sorry, I don't have the reference handy. It's all just another nail in the coffin for those that keep saying that there's no global warming. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
