NASA Scientists Seek to Improve Sea Ice Predictions

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Aug 31, 2017, 3:20 pm104 pts
Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is in a downward spiral, with summer minimum extents about 40 percent smaller than in the 1980s. But predicting how the sea ice is going to behave in a particular year is tricky: There are still many unknowns about the conditions of the sea ice cover, to say nothing of the…

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