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Article: NASA Sees Rapid Changes in Arctic Sea Ice.
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- September 13, 2006
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Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA data show that Arctic perennial sea ice, which normally survives the summer melt season and remains year-round, shrunk abruptly by 14 percent between 2004 and 2005. According to researchers, the loss of perennial ice in the East Arctic Ocean was even higher, nearing 50 percent during that time as some of the ice moved from the East Arctic to the West.
The overall decrease in winter Arctic perennial sea ice totals 720,000 square kilometers (280,000 square miles) -- an area the size of Texas. Perennial ice can be 3 or more meters (10 or more feet) thick. It was replaced ...