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Yi said it would be dangerous to try to use the results to predict when the Arctic might be ice-free in summer.

We call it a 'MYI invasion' and that's going to be the threat as we transition to an ice-free summertime Arctic.

A few years ago the projection was that the Arctic Ocean would be ice-free in the summers by about the year 2080.

The truth was that polar bears are ferocious wild animals and can become desperate for food in the ice-free summer months.

He persuasively argued that such an ice-free corridor did not exist until much later, when the continental ice began its final retreat.

A major ice-free port, it was the terminus of an important supply line to the U. S. S. R. in World Wars I and II. Population, 419, 000.

The new study focused on surface melt, runoff and the number of days when bare ice, free of snow, is exposed to the Sun's radiative force.

One of the world's largest natural, ice-free harbors, it is where the manufactured goods from Asia arrive throughout the year.

If you are free at two o'clock on Friday, I shall be delighted to take you around this ice-free port.

Few now disagree that, at some point this century, the Arctic will start to see ice-free summers.

A warming Arctic will not, in other words, be full of fish. It will simply be an ice-free version of the desert it already is.

They predict Arctic waters could be ice-free in summers, perhaps by 2013, decades earlier than they thought only a few years ago.

The report forecasts that the Arctic Ocean, within three or four decades, will likely become nearly ice free during the summer months.

The corresponding map in the atlas itself indicated that significant portions of Greenland's coastline had become ice-free.

If the earth continues to warm, the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free during the summer, allowing life there to flourish, scientists say.

In both images, gray indicates land, dark blue indicates ice-free ocean water, and white indicates ice concentrations.

The report also finds that the Arctic Ocean could become nearly ice-free in the summers within the next 30 to 40 years.

Manufactured goods from Asia keep flowing into this natural ice-free harbors throughout the year.

The city and the areas around it are an ice-free port and a nuclear-weapon-free zone.

We would set the planet on a course to the ice-free state, with a sea level 75 meters higher.

The wide bay could be a harbour, giving Russia for the first time access to an ice-free sea.

The earth has ranged from a frigid snowball to a completely ice free planet.

The Norwegian port of Tromso and the Russian port city of Murmansk are ice-free year round even though they are in the Arctic.

The ice-free Huangpu River is the main waterway in the Shanghai area.

However, an ice-free Arctic would also make the region more accessible to oil and gas exploration and shipping.

Ice-free sea absorbs more heat and accelerates global warming.

We would set the planet on a course to the ice-free state, with sea level 75 metres higher.

Jay Zwally, a Nasa scientist, recently suggested it could be virtually ice-free by late summer 2012.

That's what makes it so difficult to predict exactly how rapidly we might see the Arctic go ice-free.

Dr. Budyko argues that at ice-free Arctic Ocean is the "normal" situation.

that the warmer tunnel air kept ice-free.

A city of southeast Hokkaido, Japan, on the Pacific Ocean. It is the island's only ice-free trading port. Population, 214, 545.

This is because we have a three northeast provinces of Jilin City only a winter river ice free - the Songhua River.

The researchers predict that if current conditions persist, the mountain could be ice-free as early as 2022.

And some wildlife could benefit from an ice-free Arctic too.

And the Northwest Passage in the Arctic became ice-free for the first time in living memory.

The Arctic could be in summer ice-free as soon as 2030 rather than 2100.

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The Research Progress on the History of Palaeoclimate and Ice Sheet Advance and Recession in the Antarctic Ice - free Areas

Formation Mechanism of Subsurface Warm Water in Summer Ice-free Sea Area of the Arctic Ocean

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