LIVE FROM THE NORTH POLE !

[iceberg]

ICE UPDATE JULY 5TH 2008.

 

ARCTIC ICE IS STILL 25% OVER LAST YEAR TO DATE IN SURFACE. WE COULD SEE ON SATALITE IMAGE A LARGE SURFACE AMOUNT OF THICK ICE ON SIBERIAS

NORTH COAST SLOWLY TURNING TOWARD THE POLE BY JULY 10. SHOULD REACH

IT BY THEN. AS I STATED 6 DAYS AGO A COLD LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL SLOWLY REACH THE POLE BY JULY 8TH .THIS LOW PRESSURE FAIRLY STRONG

FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR WILL BRING STRONG WINDS WITH BLOWING SNOW TO THE POLE BY JULY 8TH 2008.WEB CAM PICTURES WILL SEE TO IT LIVE FROM WHERE IT HAPPENS.AS YOU COULD SEE FROM PICTURE BELOW SMALL WAVELETS

COULD BE SEEN AND ALSO NOTE THE TEMP AT 0.0C.THIS IS DEW TO THE STORM

GETTING CLOSER TO THE POLE.

[iceberg]

ICE UPDATE JULY 5TH 2008.

[cloudyboy]

and water in artic is normal ?

[iceberg]

WELL IF YOU COMPARE IT TO THE 1960S WE ARE FAR OFF. IF YOU COMPARE IT TO 1979 WERE DOWN BY 35%.COMPARED TO LAST YEAR WERE UP BY 25 %.

LATEST INDICATIONS ARE THAT THE THICK YEARLY ICE THAT DOES NOT MELT

SHOULD LAST THATS IF WE GET A LARGE NUMBER OF DAYS WITH CLOUDS AND LIMITED SUNNY DAYS.THIS WILL PREVENT THE FEED BACK FROM MELTING ICE AND SNOW.

[Trapper]

Iceberg, please turn caps off. Caps on is seen as screaming. Thanks.

[julie b]

C'est vraiment beau,mais maudit que je déprimais être entourée de neige à l'année longue,vous trouvez pas qu'on en a assez eue cette hiver?lollll

[iceberg]

Current Arctic sea ice graph

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Current sea ice area for the Southern Hemisphere

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Global sea ice area

[iceberg]

As we speak ice cover is above in northern and southern hemispheres.

as for ice depth information will be available next week.

[iceberg]

Bonjour a tous.. ice levels in the Northern Hemisphere are still 40% above as of late July 2008, compared to July 2007. The High Arctic is doing very well compared to last year . Hudson bay still has some ice left on its south shore. Now to the important facts, ice thickness is about the same, the only difference this years ice is more spread out .East Siberian Sea is doing very well compared to last year, also about 50% more ice this year near its shoreline then last year where it had none.Alaskan wild fires may in fact be a blessing for the Arctic this year as smoke from the fires is preventing rapid ice loss as the suns rays do less damage. So the overall picture is that we will not see the record set last year in ice loss. As we speak, this year lows have been forming more then last year as the cloud cover protects the rapid ice loss from being so great.

[iceberg]

CHARTS

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MORE CHARTS

[iceberg]

Fragmenting Arctic ice shelf a sign of warming temperatures:

 

 

The fracture of a four-square-kilometre chunk of ice from the largest remaining ice shelf in the Arctic last week is a one-way change brought on by warming temperatures, says a scientist who has studied the process.

 

 

 

Derek Mueller, a polar scientist and research fellow at Trent University, in Peterborough, Ont., said the ice breaking off from the Ward Hunt Island Ice Shelf, just north of Ellesmere Island, marks the continuation of a process that has been years in the making.

 

 

"Ice shelves don't just break up. There's no karate chop," he said. "This is the result of a gradual weakening over time as a result of warming temperatures."

 

 

Mueller said the changes in the shelf, which surrounds Ward Hunt Island off the north coast of Ellesmere, provide further evidence the planet, and in particular the North, is warming due to climate change.

 

 

An expedition by U.S. explorer Robert Peary in 1906 put the size of the Ellesmere Island Ice Shelf at just under 9,000 square kilometres. The ice shelf has since broken up into smaller pieces, the largest of which is the Ward Hunt Island Shelf. The total area of all of these pieces is now less than 900 square kilometres.

 

 

Mueller said if year-to-year warming wasn't occurring, Arctic researchers would have been able to detect some renewal of ice during the winter months, either through thickening of the ice or the spread of the shelves. But researchers haven't seen any sign of renewal, he said.

 

 

"This is a one-way change," he said.

 

 

Mueller was part of the team of polar researchers that first discovered in 2002 a large central crack in the ice shelf, which had occurred between 2000 and 2002. An expedition alongside Canadian Rangers on a patrol around Ellesmere Island in April 2008 found an 18-kilometre crack along the shelf, a further sign that fragmentation was likely.

 

 

"Ice shelf integrity was lost in 2002," said Mueller.

 

 

The 2002 fissure was blamed for the draining of an epishelf lake in Disraeli Fjord. Epishelf lakes are a unique ecosystem with both lighter freshwater and denser saltwater, with the freshwater component kept away from the ocean by the ice shelf while the bottom layer of seawater can mix with ocean water. The ecosystem is home to a unique mix of zooplankton and other tiny life forms.

 

 

Mueller said the next major epishelf lake potentially under threat in the region is the Milne epishelf lake, which is bound in the Milne fjord by the Milne Ice Shelf, the second-largest remnant of the Ellesmere Island Ice Shelf.

 

 

The ice island that formed last week is the largest to form off Canada's northern coast since the 2005 collapse of the Ayles Ice Shelf, which lay between the Milne and Ward Hunt Island shelves. The ice island that subsequently formed had a surface area of about 66 square kilometres.

[iceberg]

A Visual Comparison of Arctic Sea Ice

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JULY 29 2006.

[iceberg]

SEPT 17 2007 MINIMUM ICE

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JULY 30 2008.

[iceberg]

A strong storm system gives kabatic winds on the eastern antartica region, here is what casey station registered the last 24 hours.

[iceberg]

The windiest day on casey station .

[iceberg]

Casey station live ......

[Thierry]

Pourquoi mettre des images d'une webcam située dans l'antarctique, alors que le sujet parle du pôle Nord ?

[iceberg]

GOOD POINT....

 

ill make one LIVE FROM THE SOUTH POLE !!!!

 

THANKS FOR THE IDEA !!!

[Regg001]

Would'nt it be better to change the title for ''Live from the poles'' instead. And i'm still questionning the value to put a picture that shows nothing but a blue/gray square and a brown one.

Modifié le 7 août 2008 par Regg001

[dann17]

Yes Iceberg, I agree with Regg... indeed, your pictures are really interresting, but it would be rather nice if you could add some comments... at least a few comments... and wether it's about arctic or antarctic, it would be so appreciated !

Ok?