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British explorers Pen Hadow (left) and Ann Daniels

British team trek to North Pole to measure sea ice

Mar 01, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (36) | 3

Three British explorers have set out on a 90-day skiing expedition to the North Pole, measuring sea ice thickness the whole way to find out exactly how fast it is disappearing, according to the Catlin Arctic ...

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New method to estimate sea ice thickness

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Mar 05, 2008 | 1.8 / 5 (5) | 0

Scientists recently developed a new modeling approach to estimate sea ice thickness. This is the only model based entirely on historical observations.

Arctic sea ice thinning at record rate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Oct 28, 2008 | 3.3 / 5 (14) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The thickness of sea ice in large parts of the Arctic declined by as much as 19% last winter compared to the previous five winters, according to data from ESA's Envisat satellite.

New NASA Satellite Survey Reveals Dramatic Arctic Sea Ice Thinning

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Jul 07, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (65) | 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Arctic sea ice thinned dramatically between the winters of 2004 and 2008, with thin seasonal ice replacing thick older ice as the dominant type for the first time on record. The new results, ...

On their trip, Pen Hadow (R) and Ann Daniels found the average thickness of the ice floes was 1.8 metres

Arctic ice cap 'to disappear in future summers'

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Oct 15, 2009 | 2.8 / 5 (32) | 21

The Arctic ice cap will disappear completely in summer months within 20 to 30 years, a polar research team said as they presented findings from an expedition led by adventurer Pen Hadow.

North Pole could lose summer ice

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Aug 11, 2008 | 3.4 / 5 (26) | 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- While the summer of 2007 saw record low sea-ice coverage of the Arctic Ocean, a six-year study of the Arctic's sea ice has confirmed its ongoing, massive shrinking and drastic thinning.

New Arctic satellite data shows Arctic literally on thin ice

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Apr 06, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (79) | 43

The latest data from NASA and the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center show the continuation of a decade-long trend of shrinking sea ice extent in the Arctic, including new ...

NASA Blue Marble captures ice conditions at the end of the melt season in the Arctic

Arctic ice pack at third lowest extent since 1979: US

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Sep 18, 2009 | 2.4 / 5 (5) | 9

The Arctic sea ice pack thawed to its third smallest size on record during the northern hemisphere summer of 2009, US government scientists said, citing satellite images.

Results of the Modell Calculation by Gerdes et al.

How will the Arctic sea ice cover develop this summer?

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jul 09, 2008 | 2.3 / 5 (12) | 5

The ice cover in the Arctic Ocean at the end of summer 2008 will lie, with almost 100 per cent probability, below that of the year 2005 – the year with the second lowest sea ice extent ever measured. Chances ...

British explorers cut short trek to North Pole

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May 14, 2009 | 2.2 / 5 (11) | 3

(AP) -- British explorers in northern Canada to measure the thickness of floating Arctic sea ice ended their expedition short of reaching the North Pole due to an early summer ice melt, the team said Thursday.

Arctic sea ice reaches minimum extent for 2009, third lowest ever recorded

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Sep 17, 2009 | 2.8 / 5 (8) | 1

The Arctic sea ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent for the year, the third-lowest recorded since satellites began measuring sea ice extent in 1979, according to the University of Colorado at Boulder's National ...

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