Latest Barrow Ice Breakup On Record? | Watts Up With That?
The University of Alaska has been tracking breakup of this ice for the past decade. The latest breakup was July 11 which occurred last year. The earliest breakup occurred in 2004 on June 16. They have devised a model which forecasts the breakup, based on solar radiation already received and forecast into the future by NCAR’s WRF weather model. Their current forecast has it breaking up after July 10, which would at a minimum tie the record.Flashback: Bob Reiss on “Welcome to Barrow, Alaska, Ground Zero for Climate Change” | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine
I got on the phone and email and asked numerous experts in many fields, if there was one place on the planet that epitomized all the aspects of climate change going on in the Arctic, if there could be such a single place, what would they pick? I was surprised because everybody said Barrow.
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