Thursday, January 31, 2013

Arctic Cyclone Had Insignificant Impact on 2012 Ice Retreat

New York Times: Last summer, after an extraordinary storm swirled across the Arctic Ocean, churning sea ice like some great Waring blender, much was speculated about the cyclone`s role in the enormous retreat of sea ice that followed. A new modeling study by the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington, replaying last summer`s Arctic Ocean ice conditions with and without the storm, shows that the short-term influence of all that ice churning probably played almost no role in the final ice retreat...

URL: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/study-finds-arctic-cyclone-had-insignificant-impact-on-2012-ice-retreat/?partner=rss&emc=rss
Enclosure: http://youtu.be/1ZCWxkPt2fk

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