Winds causing Arctic ice shrinkage


	Winds causing Arctic ice shrinkage

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10-5-2007 12:46 PM

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year-round sea ice cover during the past two winters. This drastic reduction of perennial winter sea 
ice is the primary cause of this summer's fastest-ever sea ice retreat on record and subsequent 
smallest-ever extent of total Arctic coverage.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/quikscat-20071001.html">   
Between winter 2005 and winter 2007, the perennial ice shrunk by an area the size of Texas and 
California combined.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/quikscat-20071001.html"><DIV> 
Nghiem said the rapid decline in winter perennial ice the past two years was caused by unusual 
winds. "Unusual atmospheric conditions set up wind patterns that compressed the sea ice, loaded it 
into the Transpolar Drift Stream and then sped its flow out of the Arctic," he said. When that sea 
ice reached lower latitudes, it rapidly melted in the warmer waters. 
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"The winds causing this trend in ice reduction were set up by an unusual pattern of atmospheric 
pressure that began at the beginning of this century," Nghiem said.
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