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Article: Arctic Sea Ice Continues Decline as Arctic Temperatures Rise.
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- September 28, 2005
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Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder
BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- New satellite records monitored by a national team of collaborators show a four-year pattern of extremely low summer sea-ice coverage in the Arctic that continued in September 2005, which may be the result of warming temperatures and earlier spring melting.
Since 2002, the satellite data have revealed unusually early springtime melting in areas north of Siberia and Alaska. In 2005, the trend expanded to include the entire Arctic ice pack, said Ted Scambos of CU-Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center, which led the study that also involved NASA and the University ...