{"id":236,"date":"2017-05-07T11:40:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T11:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/?p=236"},"modified":"2017-05-07T11:41:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T11:41:35","slug":"sea-ice-report-for-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/2017\/05\/07\/sea-ice-report-for-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Ice Report for April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\"Sea ice age is a proxy for ice thickness, with older ice generally meaning thicker ice. Though ice can pile up into rubble fields when the motion of the ice pushes up against the coast or thicker ice, level ice generally increases in thickness as it ages through more winter freeze cycles. Thus, ice age is a reasonable indicator of the sea ice thickness.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-237\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-237 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/05\/SeaIceAge_EndMarch_2017-300x221.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/05\/SeaIceAge_EndMarch_2017-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/05\/SeaIceAge_EndMarch_2017.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: http:\/\/nsidc.org\/arcticseaicenews\/2017\/05\/warm-arctic-cool-continents\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>At the end of March, ice age data show only a small remaining coverage of old (5+ years) ice. Since 2011, the oldest ice has comprised less than 5 percent of the total ice cover. During the mid-1980s, such ice made up nearly a third of the ice. [...]\u00a0Most of the third year ice is between Fram Strait and the pole, which means it is likely to exit the Arctic Ocean during the coming months.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The above text is taken from the <a href=\"http:\/\/nsidc.org\/arcticseaicenews\/2017\/05\/warm-arctic-cool-continents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April report<\/a> from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). Follow the link to read the full article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\"Sea ice age is a proxy for ice thickness, with older ice generally meaning thicker ice. Though ice can pile up into rubble fields when the motion of the ice pushes up against the coast or thicker ice, level ice generally increases in thickness as it ages through more winter freeze cycles. Thus, ice age <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/2017\/05\/07\/sea-ice-report-for-april\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Sea Ice Report for April\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/john-cleary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}