We May Lose Complete Sea Ice By 2035- A Study

Arctic melt ponds. Image retrieved from theconversation.com

Around 1,27,000 years ago, during the last inter-glacial, the high temperature at that time have confounded researchers for years. An international team of researchers authorized by the UK Met Office’s Hadley Centre Climate Model was able to juxtapose Arctic sea ice conditions and last inter-glacial with today’s situation. Such discoveries have the capacity to change the current of ongoing research and can be used in better evaluation and prediction in future sea changes. An astounding study about Arctic sea being free of sea ice by 2035 published in a journal, Nature Climate Change, has given researchers a new lead to work on.

Appearance of shallow pools of water on the surface of Arctic sea- ice during every spring and prior summer help in the study of absorption of sunlight by ice and reflection of it into space. As a result of such studies every year, the team is able to culminate the result of such prediction, as there are many melt ponds which can be seen during recent summers created due to an impact of intense sun rays.