What is the current ice thickness at the north pole?

Answer 1

British researchers used data from a pair of European and American radar satellites to assess the thickness of the ice covering the Arctic Ocean over eight years.

They found that, while the ice has thinned by 40 percent overall since the 1960s, the thickness can in fact fluctuate greatly during the course of the year and also from year to year.

Averaged out over the 1993-2001 duration of the study, the mean ice thickness in winter was just under three metres (10 feet), but over time this figure fluctuated by up to 25 centimetres (two feet) each way.

Within a year, there can be a variation in thickness of as much as 16 percent.

Answer 2

In 2000, average summer thickness of ice at the North Pole was about 9ft. But there was no ice to stand on, all are melted. Although in winter ice cap develops into 5 to 7 feet.

Answer 3

The North Pole is over sea. It is usually permanently frozen, but this depth of freezing has reduced over the years from about 10m when the Nautilus submarine went under in the 1960s, to only 3m today. A couple of years ago an expedition couldn't get to the pole - for the first time in known history there was open water there.

The South Pole is on land; the elevation at the base is about 5,000m, but the rock below is actually below sea-level, so there is over 5,000m of ice there - but its getting lower.

Answer 4

this website has figures for the ice thickness in 2003

Answer 5

It is about 2500-3000 feet deep. The situation is alarming coz of growing heat pattren of the world, due to pollution.

Answer 6

Don't know that, but in NW Canada, there are valleys of ice, 3,000 feet deep.

Answer 7

Really, really, really thick!!