{"id":2506,"date":"2014-07-24T12:27:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T17:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2014-07-24T12:27:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T17:27:30","slug":"overestimation-of-antarctic-sea-ice-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/overestimation-of-antarctic-sea-ice-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Overestimation of Antarctic sea ice expansion<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2503\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pngbase64844352b92455952a.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2503\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2503\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pngbase64844352b92455952a.png\" alt=\"A tabular iceberg surrounded by sea ice in the Antarctic. (Credit: Eva Nowatzki, distributed via imaggeo)\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pngbase64844352b92455952a.png 360w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pngbase64844352b92455952a-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tabular iceberg surrounded by sea ice in the Antarctic. (Credit: Eva Nowatzki, distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/imaggeo.egu.eu\/\">imaggeo<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A new study says that the measured expansion of sea ice in the Antarctic may be due to an error in the way satellite data is processed as recent\u00a0observations show the ice is actually retreating. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Comparing past and present datasets revealed a difference between the two records. The current data\u00a0shows much faster sea ice expansion than before. The authors reveal that difference comes from a calibration error which had a large influence on the long-term trend of sea ice cover.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-cryosphere.net\/8\/1289\/2014\/tc-8-1289-2014.html\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0journal\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Cryosphere<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 22, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Ian Eisenman, University of California at San Diego, USA<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\">B\u00e1rbara Ferreira, European Geophysical Union, Germany<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study says that the measured expansion of sea ice in the Antarctic may be due to an error in the way satellite data is processed as recent\u00a0observations show the ice is actually retreating. Comparing past and present datasets revealed a difference between the two records. The current data\u00a0shows much faster sea ice expansion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[31,215,176],"class_list":["post-2506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pngbase64844352b92455952a.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Eq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions\/2507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}