Increasing of Atmospheric Temperature and Effect on Ice Caps Melting

Global warming is a slow and steady rise in the temperature of the Earth's climate system. Green house gases, especially carbon dioxide, are the main reason for the global warming. There are different consequences due to global warming, such as increasing the temperature of the atmosphere, burning jungles, ice caps melting, etc. This research focuses on the ice caps melting and follows the rate of melting in the ice caps area in the world. The results of ice caps melting are collected from the research institutions and laboratories, such as National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Japan, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), USA, Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. As estimated, the arctic region is warming faster than any other on the earth. Arctic sea ice disappears steadily due to increasing atmospheric temperatures, approximately 270 two hundred seventy billion tons (270 x109) melts of Greenland’s ice cap annually. As recorded, there are nine hundred km3 (900 km3) of summer sea ice has been disappeared from the Arctic ocean in 2012. The variation of Arctic melting is not steady due to different factors such as climate change and melting momentum. It was observed that there was an improvement in the Arctic sea ice area in 2016 and in 2017; this phenomena might be due the decrease in the atmospheric temperature. This gives hope in the future and indicates a decrease in the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere.

Keywords: global warming; Green House Gases; Ice Caps melting; Atmospheric temperature; Arctic melting