Carinthians latest Arctic reports

[Iceberg]

We are certainly alot better at including ice thicknesses thanks to sat.

I take the opposite view in that the much discusses cold pooling in the upper atmosphere (the curse of last winter), let to an intense and high latitude PJ keeping the cold enclosed. I would probably expect to see more ice than currently seen. A few years like this might bring it back to normal and reverse the trend but we know that's highly unlikely to happen.

Models are still indicating an early start to the artic summer.

Does anybody have an answer to the highest temp recorded at the north pole. ?, or climate averages.

[kippure]

Bit of a melt on

[NorthYorksWeather]

Bit of a melt on

where is that, scotland?

[kippure]

Alaska

where is that, scotland?

[oldsnowywizard]

quick update time again...

total northern hemisphere ice around the 11million sq km mark. just above last years levels.

arctic basin, bearing, baffin,chuckhi, beaufort all above or equal to the mean.. there are a few others that are only just below the mean...such as greenland and canadian A...

most areas seem to be doing better than last year...

if you compare the cryosphere sea ice concentration charts you will see that this year the thickness at the moment seems to be well thicker...

2006 - http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IM...VE/20060524.jpg

2007 - http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/arctic.jpg

Edited May 25, 2007 by oldsnowywizard

[AtlanticFlamethrower]

What are the chances the North Pole will be completely frozen over this year?

Man aims to swim at North Pole

TIM MOYNIHAN

BRITISH adventurer Lewis Gordon Pugh is to take on his toughest challenge yet - swimming at the geographic North Pole, it was announced yesterday.

He will be the first person to swim there, in water temperatures of -1.8C - the coldest waters in which a human has ever swam, a spokesman said.

He is making the 1km swim in an area that should be frozen over, to demonstrate the impact of climate change.

Pugh expects the Investec North Pole Challenge, on 15 July, will take approximately 21 minutes. He will swim in just a swimming costume, cap and goggles.

Edited May 28, 2007 by AtlanticFlamethrower

[carinthian]

What are the chances the North Pole will be completely frozen over this year?

Brave Guy. You just watch after all that preparation the pole will be locked in summer ice. If there is a hole big enough, the polar bears will snap him up. Little sign of any break-up at the moment.

C

[summer blizzard]

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[Osbourne One-Nil]

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