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Article: NEW METHOD TO ESTIMATE SEA ICE THICKNESS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 4, 2008
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The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey issued the following press release:
Scientists recently developed a new modeling approach to estimate sea ice thickness. This is the only model based entirely on historical observations.
The model was developed by scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey and the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
Using this new technique, the thickness of Arctic sea ice was estimated from 1982 to 2003. Results showed that average ice thickness and total ice volume fluctuated together during the early study period, peaking in the late 1980s and then declining until the mid-1990s. Thereafter, ice thickness slightly increased but the total volume ...