The sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean and its vicinity
NOAA projected Arctic changesThis animation shows the Arctic Ocean melt during the summer of 2011.This visual shows the Arctic sea ice change and the corresponding absorbed solar radiation change during June, July, and August from 2000 through 2014.
The Arctic ice pack is the sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean and its vicinity. The Arctic ice pack undergoes a regular seasonal cycle in which ice melts in spring and summer, reaches a minimum around mid-September, then increases during fall and winter. Summer ice cover in the Arctic is about 50% of winter cover.[1] Some of the ice survives from one year to the next. Currently, 28% of Arctic basin sea ice is multi-year ice,[2] thicker than seasonal ice: up to 3–4 m (9.8–13.1 ft) thick over large areas, with ridges up to 20 m (65.6 ft) thick. Besides the regular seasonal cycle there has been an underlying trend of declining sea ice in the Arctic in recent decades as well.
^Polar Sea Ice Cap and Snow – Cryosphere Today Archived 2011-02-23 at the Wayback Machine, University of Illinois
^"Arctic sea ice extent at maximum below average, thin | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis". 7 April 2008.
The Arcticicepack is the sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean and its vicinity. The Arcticicepack undergoes a regular seasonal cycle in which ice melts...
ice floes. The two major icepacks are the Arcticicepack and the Antarctic icepack. The most important areas of packice are the polar icepacks formed...
Earth's polar regions: the Arcticicepack of the Arctic Ocean and the Antarctic icepack of the Southern Ocean. Polar packs undergo a significant yearly...
seasonal variation in how much pack ice of the Arcticicepack covers the Arctic Ocean. Much of the Arcticicepack is also covered in snow for about 10 months...
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winter. Some parts of the Arctic are covered by ice (sea ice, glacial ice, or snow) year-round, and nearly all parts of the Arctic experience long periods...
of the Arcticicepack. His name is associated with the Scientific Prediction of Ice Conditions theory. Wiese was a member of the Soviet Arctic Institute...
surrounded by sea ice. It is now used as a geographical term for an area of unfrozen seawater within otherwise contiguous packice or fast ice. It is a loanword...
afloat for 10 years. A small number of floats are also trapped in the Arcticicepack where there is movement over the North Pole and into the Atlantic Ocean...
Observing System Antarctic icepackArcticicepack University of Colorado at Boulder "ELOKA Home - eloka-arctic.org". Eloka-arctic.org. Archived from the...
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its "palaces ablaze with immaterial matter." Arctic cooperation and politics Arctic Council Arcticicepack Antarctica Biome Celestial pole Ecliptic pole...
circumnavigation. There are practical difficulties (namely, the Arcticicepack and the Antarctic ice sheet) in such a voyage, although it was successfully undertaken...
potentially adverse effects of climate change with regard to the melting Arcticicepack. It was brought into force on May 28, 2008 by the United States, the...
reintroduced, explaining his absence by accidentally freezing in the Arcticicepack. Frederik Pohl's science fiction work The Age of the Pussyfoot (1966–1969)...
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shoreline protection, time of year and pressure from the packice. In Arctic seas the fast ice extends down to depths of 20 m (65.6 ft), while in the Subarctic...
Columbia is exposed to the ice drift of the Arcticpackice. The approximately 2 m (6 ft 7 in) thick packice of the Arctic Ocean moves several hundred...
of wolf packs killing polar bear cubs. The Arctic wolf is least concern, but it does face threats. In 1997, there was a decline in the Arctic wolf population...
been exploited, and the Arcticicepack shrinks, governments and oil companies have begun to look for new resources in the Arctic. Given these possible...
polar ice cap visible (courtesy NASA) Earth's North Pole is covered by floating packice (sea ice) over the Arctic Ocean. Portions of the ice that do...
seals reside in arctic waters and are commonly associated with ice floes and packice. The ringed seal maintains a breathing hole in the ice thus allowing...
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