The cool breeze of summer 2013 has made Arctic Ice tougher than previously thought!

A new study has revealed that the Arctic Sea is very sensitive and changes in temperature of only one cool summer have briefly overturned the decline in the ice cap around the North Pole region.

Researchers at University College London with the help of new satellite data has stated on Monday in Nature Geoscience that a volume of sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere has been well above average in the autumn of 2013, conventionally the end of the annual melt season, following an unusually cool summer when temperatures fell down to levels that hasn’t been witnessed ever since the 1990s.

Lead author of the study Rachel Tilling, a researcher who studies satellite observations of the Arctic, said, “We now know it can recover by a significant amount if the melting season is cut short. The sea ice might be a little more resilient than we thought.”

Even since the late 1970s, there has been a gradual decline in the Arctic sea and has been taken as a barometer of the longer-term warming trends in the Northern hemisphere. Last year, the U.S. has predicted that by 2030, the Arctic’s northern sea route could be free of ice and will possibly be navigable for nine weeks every year.

New data from the Cryosat-2 radar satellite of the European Space Agency, launched in 2010 has been used by Miss Tilling and the rest of the team. They have taken measurements of the changes in the overall volume of seasonal ice across the Arctic and Greenland and that has happened for the first time ever. Researchers have been able to track the extent of ice for the first time ever, but the thickness haven’t been identified as of yet.

The summer temperature has been 5% cooler in comparison to the previous years and the volume of autumn ice has jumped about 41% in the year 2013. After 2013, the temperatures have started to warm up once more thereby declining the annual sea ice resumed, according to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Boulder Colo. The Arctic sea ice has been at its lowest ever since the commencement of the measurements.

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Tasnuva Rahim

I have been writing ever since I can remember, but that is because school made me do so against my will. Today here I am, standing strong because my mentors could see my flair which had undoubtedly mirrored in my school papers and the essays that never failed to amaze them. The strength of my words, the power of my insight and creativity is something I cherish very closely and I hope that someday it will be worth more than it is now. It is their encouragement and the faith that I had in myself taken me so many places, brought in so many surprises that I am grateful for them each and every day. I have worked for Dhaka tribune, written travel blogs collected from the time when I was working for an inbound travel agency. I have covered stories on cultures and norms of our country for a local lifestyle magazine Ice Today magazine. As of now I’m working as a freelance content writer and loving every moment of it.

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