Sentence examples for the minimum extent from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

If any provision or part-provision of these terms and conditions is or becomes invalid, illegal or unenforceable, it shall be deemed modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid, legal and enforceable.

For example, although the minimum extent of the Arctic ice cap during the summer months was shrinking with the 2007 minimum shattering previous records there were no significant trends in Antarctic sea-ice extent, a result consistent with the observation that atmospheric temperatures had not been warming when averaged across the Antarctic region.

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.

The line on the image shows the average minimum extent from the period covering 1979-2010.

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

The record minimum extent is now likely to be formally called on Monday by the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) in Colorado.

The red line in this image shows the 1981-2010 average minimum extent.