Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany have analyzed that Arctic ice is continuing to thin down to alarming levels.
Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany have analyzed that Arctic ice is continuing to thin down to alarming levels.
According to a report in New Scientist, Christian Haas from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, and his team, estimated the thickness of late summer ice at the North Pole in 2001, 2004 and 2007.
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"In 2007, the ice was 1.3 metres thick on average, compared with 2.6 metres in 2004," said Hass.
The team went to the North Pole aboard the German icebreaker RFV Polarstern in August and September of 2001, 2004 and 2007.
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Previously, glaciologists had measured ice thickness in spots by placing instruments directly on the ice.
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While the ice at the North Pole used to be thick "old" ice, much of it now is thinner first-year ice, which has had only a single winter to grow.
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Rising sea-levels could cause the Antarctic ice sheet to break up, even though the air over it will remain chilly enough to prevent significant melting for at least a century, according
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Taken together, the studies suggest that the Arctic could soon be ice-free during summer.
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