Arctic ice more vulnerable to sunny weather, new study shows

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This June 7 2007 NASA satellite image taken under mostly cloud-free conditions shows the beginning of last summers Arctic sea ice melt. Credit: Image courtesy NASA
This June 7, 2007 NASA satellite image, taken under mostly cloud-free conditions, shows the beginning of last summer's Arctic sea ice melt. Credit: Image courtesy NASA

The shrinking expanse of Arctic sea ice is increasingly vulnerable to summer sunshine, new research concludes. The study, by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Colorado State University (CSU), finds that unusually sunny weather contributed to last summer's record loss of Arctic ice, while similar weather conditions in past summers do not appear to have had comparable impacts.


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