Blue Light, USCG Arctic Expedition, 2009
The sun shines through a piece of ice on the Arctic Ocean September 1, 2009. The Arctic ice pack is the ice cover of the Arctic Ocean and its vicinity. The Arctic ice pack undergoes a regular seasonal cycle in which ice melts in spring and summer, reaches a minimum around mid-September, then increases during fall and winter. Summer ice cover in the Arctic is about 50% of winter cover. As well as the regular seasonal cycle there has been an underlying trend of declining sea ice in the Arctic in recent decades.
Size: 4500px × 2989px
Photo credit: © Photo Researchers / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: 2000s, 2009, 21st, arctic, blue, century, change, climate, climatological, climatology, coast, earth, environment, expedition, geographic, geographical, geography, global, guard, ice, light, ocean, pack, science, sea, states, topographical, topography, translucent, united, uscg, warming
