What is the altitude of the polar ice caps?

Answer 1

The northern ice cap is floating sea ice. Its altitude is sea level plus whatever thickness the ice extends above the water.

The southern ice cap is about 2800 meters in elevation at the pole. The land beneath the ice is estimated at about 100 meters above sea level, so the ice is 2700 meters thick (9000 feet).

Answer 2

In winter, temperatures at the North Pole and in the Arctic can range from about −43 °C to −26 °C , or −45 °F to −15 °F. Summer temperatures average around the freezing point, which is 0 °C, or 32 °F.

Temperatures are lower at the South Pole and the surrounding Antarctic. Winter temperatures range between −65 °C and −70 °C, and summer temperatures range between −25 °C and −45 °C.

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Answer 3

The temperature on the surface of the ice would be the same as the air temperature. This will vary from place to place. In Antarctica the temperature averages -57C (-70F) in the centre of the continent.

Answer 4

Regions with a polar climate are characterized by a lack of warm summers (specifically, no month having an average temperature of 10 °C (50 °F) or higher).

Answer 5

The average temperature of the polar ice cap is approximately -17 °C.

Answer 6

- 34 c in the winter. in the summer there is an average high of -1 c

Answer 7

below 0 degress