Sentence examples for minimum extent from inspiring English sources

It usually reaches its minimum extent in mid-September.

In the next few days the Arctic sea ice will reach its minimum extent for 2013.

In 2007, the minimum extent was 1.59 million square miles, he said.

Now the minimum extent has been nearly reached and the sea is starting to refreeze.

The ice reaches its minimum extent each September, when it begins to reform as the freezing Arctic winter takes hold.

And while this year's minimum extent will certainly be higher than last year's, that's not the least bit surprising.

During its minimum extent, around mid-September, the ice cover traditionally shrinks to about half this size.

"This is the new minimum extent of the ice cap," he says, the "frontline of climate change".

In the 1970s, 80s and 90s the minimum extent of polar pack ice fell by around 8% per decade.

2012 shattered the previous record low sea ice extent; hence 'regression towards the mean' told us that 2013 would likely have a higher minimum extent.

The estimates vary, but scientists agree that at some point this century the minimum extent, at the end of the summer season, will reach zero.