{"id":6598,"date":"2016-04-03T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6598"},"modified":"2016-04-03T18:21:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T22:21:05","slug":"new-record-breaking-low-arctic-sea-ice-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/04\/new-record-breaking-low-arctic-sea-ice-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"New record-breaking low Arctic sea ice cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, due to dramatically warm conditions in the Arctic, &#8220;more of the Arctic\u2019s sea surface seems to have remained unfrozen this winter than ever before in\u00a0the era of satellite monitoring,&#8221; according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, as quoted in Discover magazine&#8217;s ImaGeo blog <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/imageo\/2016\/03\/28\/a-warm-crazy-winter-in-the-arctic\/#.VwCFGvkrLIX\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \u00a0The low extent of sea ice this year broke the previous record set last year (satellite records began in 1979). \u00a0Having open ocean instead of sea ice can affect the balance of heat and moisture in the area, including potentially causing changes in the jet stream which moves storms through the US and the Southeast.<\/p>\n<p>More details are available at the NOAA Climate blog at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/featured-images\/arctics-winter-ice-extent-smallest-record\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/featured-images\/arctics-winter-ice-extent-smallest-record<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6599\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6599\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/mar24_N_daily_extent_hires-252x300.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6599\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/mar24_N_daily_extent_hires-252x300-252x300.png\" alt=\"Source: National Snow and Ice Data Center\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/mar24_N_daily_extent_hires-252x300.png 252w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/mar24_N_daily_extent_hires-252x300-116x138.png 116w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: National Snow and Ice Data Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/2016_arcticicemax_photocombo_620.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6601\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/2016_arcticicemax_photocombo_620-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"2016_arcticicemax_photocombo_620\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/2016_arcticicemax_photocombo_620-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/2016_arcticicemax_photocombo_620-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/2016_arcticicemax_photocombo_620.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, due to dramatically warm conditions in the Arctic, &#8220;more of the Arctic\u2019s sea surface seems to have remained unfrozen this winter than ever before in\u00a0the era of satellite monitoring,&#8221; according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, as quoted in Discover magazine&#8217;s ImaGeo blog here. \u00a0The low extent of sea ice this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":6601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6602,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598\/revisions\/6602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}