SURVEY DATA SUPPORTS RAPID ICE LOSS - LARGELY OPEN ARCTIC SEAS IN SUMMER WITHIN TEN YEARS
New data, released today (15.10.09) by the Catlin Arctic Survey and WWF, provides further evidence that the Arctic Ocean sea ice is thinning, supporting the emerging thinking that the Ocean will be largely ice-free during summer within a decade.
The Catlin Arctic Survey, completed earlier this year, provides the latest ice thickness record, drawn from the only survey capturing surface measurements conducted during winter and spring 2009
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Videos from the Science Findings press conference
The videos from the Catlin Arctic Survey's press conference have just been made available. Please paste the following links into your browser to view Pen Hadow (Catlin Arctic Survey), Peter Wadhams (University of Cambridge) and Martin Sommerkorn (WWF) presenting the findings.
Pen Hadow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWyBJnt9Bow
Peter Wadhams - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luCi_1g9gpA
Martin Sommerkorn - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q190H5MHmn4
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