6.4-Sigma Event: Antarctic Sea Ice Hits Lowest Point Since Official Records Began
2023 has gone from bad to worse for Earth's southern ocean.
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2023 has gone from bad to worse for Earth's southern ocean.
Fast-shrinking Arctic sea ice means more extreme weather patterns
A report noted that in the summer of 2022, the amount of sea ice dropped to 1.92m sq km on 25 February – an all-time low based on satellite observations that started in 1979.
With the continent holding enough ice to raise sea levels by many metres if it was to melt, polar scientists are scrambling for answers
Abu Dhabi: Researchers in Abu Dhabi have unravelled a more than 40-year-old scientific mystery about why a body of unfrozen ocean has appeared within a thick body of ice during Antarctica’s winter. Known as a polynya event, this creation of the water bodies within ocean ice has occurred twice in the Weddell Sea in Antarctica — once in 1973 and again in 2017. Scientists at Khalifa University’s Environmental and Geophysical Sciences (ENGEOS) lab have discovered that synoptic-scale atmospheric rivers (AR) emerging from the tropics and spreading poleward into the Antarctic Ice Sheet are act...