Giant ice breaks 1,000km long in the Beaufort Sea

The ice in the sea Beaufort, located in northwestern Canada and northern Alaska state of America, has spectacularly broken over the past week.

Large currents, many of which are up to 500km long and 70km wide, have opened on frozen sea surfaces from Alaska to the Arctic islands of Canada as huge ice sheets break before the effects of wind and ocean currents.

Watch ice melting through satellites

Reporters in Ottawa lead the announcement of meteorologists at the Canadian Information Center (CIS) on the Financial Post on April 3 that the process of thawing across the 1,000km Beaufort sea area from the West to East only takes 7 days.

Melting ice is a common phenomenon in the Beaufort Sea, but there has never been a mass of ice melt on such a large scale at such a fast rate.

Like the spring crash last spring, ice breakage lines appear clockwise, can continue or stop depending on weather conditions, starting in the southwestern part of the sea, then quickly spread east and included the entire Beaufort Sea.

According to meteorologists, the large-scale rapid melting of the Beaufort Sea this year may be due to the new coating of ice created by the ice melting record in the Arctic last summer. This ice is thinner and weaker than ice that has existed for many years, so they react more quickly to wind and easily break apart.