Sentence examples for minimum extent of from inspiring English sources

"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.

The National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC), based in Boulder, Colorado, says it passed the 2007 record minimum extent of 4.17m sq kilometres on 26 August.

NSIDC said this year's minimum extent of ice was larger than the extraordinary low seen in 2012: "Arctic sea ice extent as of September 16, 2013 was 5.10 million square kilometers (2.00 million square miles).

The ice, which is now expanding as the sun dips toward the horizon for the winter, hit a minimum extent of about 1.74 million square miles on Sept. 12, said Walter Meier, a research scientist at the center.

Since 1979, when scientists began using satellites to track the phenomenon, the annual minimum extent of the region's ice coverage has fallen by more than eleven per cent each decade.

Daily extents in May were also two to four weeks ahead of levels seen in 2012, which had the lowest Arctic sea ice minimum extent on the satellite record (typically the summer melting season runs March to September).

Group-level analyses were then based on a random-effects model using one-sample t-tests, with a threshold of p < 0.05, corrected, and a minimum extent threshold of 10 contiguous voxels.

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.

With possibly two weeks' further melt likely before the ice reaches its minimum extent and starts to refreeze ahead of the winter, satellites showed it had shrunk to 4.1m sq km (1.6m sq miles) on Sunday.

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