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Cecilia Bitz's HomepageTel: (206) 543-1339office: Atmos Sci & Geophys Bld 408 bitz@uw.edu I am Professor and Chair of the Atmospheric Sciences Department and faculty in the Program on Climate Change, both at University of Washington |
![]() | While I was a
Fulbright Senior Scholar 2013-2014 to New Zealand, I did field work
in Antarctica. My hosts were Drs. Inga Smith and Pat Langhorne at
University of Otago, in Dunedin, NZ. Here I am holding a sea ice
core extracted from the snow-covered land-fast first-year sea ice
that I am standing on. Mt Erebus (3,794 m or 12,448 ft) on Ross
Island is directly behind the core. Location: Camp Haskell, Event
(project) K131 "Sea ice and Southern Ocean processes" camp, Haskell
Strait, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Date: 4 November 2013. Photograph
taken by Dr. Inga Smith, University of Otago and K131. |
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What is wrong with this picture?
The image at left was shown at the end of the Day After Tomorrow, a recent blockbuster movie about climate change. Ice and snow on land cover large areas of North America. Click on the picture or here for a discussion about the impossibility of the sea ice cover! |
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The map of the Arctic with the United States on the left was created by Harry Stern of the University of Washington Polar Science Center. Click on the map or here for a description of the scaling. In September 2007 the ice cover was a record low, the departure from normal was equal to about four times the size of Texas. |
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