Sentences with phrase «beaufort sea area»

in comment # 168, posted this animation of images from Bremen University of the Beaufort Sea area, from May 1st through the end of June roughly.

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In fact, in the border between the Yukon territory and Alaska and the Beaufort Sea, there is an area of dispute between Canada and United States where we have counterclaims on parts of the exclusive economic zone on the offshore there.

The Final Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Lease Sale Program for 2012 to 2017 includes a lease sale in the Beaufort Sea Planning Area (Sale 242) in 2017.

This ongoing analysis will inform decisions about the configuration of the Beaufort Sea planning area lease sale, as well as any specific mitigation measures that may be appropriate.

The 45 - day Call seeks to gather information about specific areas within the Beaufort Sea Planning Area that have the most promising oil and gas resource potential, while also increasing the agency's understanding about environmentally sensitive habitats and important social and cultural uses — including vital Alaska Native subsistence activities — that also exist within the aArea that have the most promising oil and gas resource potential, while also increasing the agency's understanding about environmentally sensitive habitats and important social and cultural uses — including vital Alaska Native subsistence activities — that also exist within the areaarea.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — As part of its commitment to a regionally tailored approach to safe and responsible domestic energy production, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today issued a Call for Information and Nominations for potential Oil and Gas Lease Sale 242, proposed for the Beaufort Sea Planning Area off Alaska in 2017.

In previously ice - rich areas such as the Beaufort Gyre off the Alaskan coast or the region south of Spitsbergen, the sea ice is considerably thinner now than it normally is during the spring.

In this case, researchers produced a historical model of shoreline erosion for the Kugmallit Bay area, located along the Beaufort Sea coast in the Canadian Northwest Territories and processed the photography using ESRI's ArcGIS software and the U.S. Geological Survey's Digital Shoreline Analysis System.

The act also designated 8 million acres of ANWR as wilderness and thus off - limits to human settlement, and directed that the 1002 area — the 1.5 million acres of coastal land between the Brooks Range and the Beaufort Sea — could be surveyed for possible oil and gas resources.

This map shows the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's outer continental shelf oil and gas leasing areas, with the Chukchi and Beaufort seas highlighted.

Sea ice melt showed the greatest contribution to water masses in the Beaufort Sea and Canada Basin (fSIM up to 0.219) and comparatively low contributions in the Makarov Basin and Sever Spur areas (fSIM up to 0.061; Table 1, Figure 7).

A number of other studies have shown areas of aragonite undersaturation in the Canadian Archipelago and on the Beaufort Sea shelf [21], [23], [24].

In the ENP, gray whales migrate between wintering areas off Baja California, Mexico, to summer feeding areas in the Bering, Beaufort, and Chukchi Seas.

Oil and gas leasing and exploration activities are intensifying not only in certain parts of the Reserve but also on adjacent offshore areas in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.

Figure 1 shows that Beaufort area, Chucki sea and the North of Siberia area are ice free, up to 84 ° N. Sea ice is connected to Russia via the Taymyr peninsusea and the North of Siberia area are ice free, up to 84 ° N. Sea ice is connected to Russia via the Taymyr peninsuSea ice is connected to Russia via the Taymyr peninsula.

The United States must continue to make progress in developing our many oil and gas resources across the nation, including offshore in areas like the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, to relieve the many growing pressures facing the American people.

In the area around Beaufort, seas are projected to rise between 4.0 and 6.4 feet by the end of this century.

A prediction for the September ice area in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas based on persistence suggests a recovery to pre-2007 conditions.

Maslanik, Tivy, Pokrovsky — below - normal ice area overall, but high concentration may remain along the coast in the southern Beaufort and Chukchi Seas

The predictor is multi-year ice anomalies in the Beaufort Sea along the coast of the islands the previous summer (14 - month lead), which is an area of ice import into the CAA.

But he says there's near - certainty that coastal areas along the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering and Beaufort seas will be warm through October.

The recent NSIDC sea ice chart from 9 August (Figure 4) shows major open water areas in the eastern Beaufort Sea, East Siberian Sea, and Kara Sea, and a strip of sea ice continuing in the Chukchi Ssea ice chart from 9 August (Figure 4) shows major open water areas in the eastern Beaufort Sea, East Siberian Sea, and Kara Sea, and a strip of sea ice continuing in the Chukchi SSea, East Siberian Sea, and Kara Sea, and a strip of sea ice continuing in the Chukchi SSea, and Kara Sea, and a strip of sea ice continuing in the Chukchi SSea, and a strip of sea ice continuing in the Chukchi Ssea ice continuing in the Chukchi SeaSea.

In the Arctic Ocean, the largest losses have been in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas where large open water areas opened up within the ice pack.

At the end of the melt season, there was a considerable area of low - concentration (and likely relatively thin) sea ice near the ice edge, particularly in the northern Beaufort / Chukchi Seas.

Thus, the most free of ice areas at this September are located in Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, but in 2007 those were in the Russian sector of the Arctic.

The fractured area extends through the Beaufort Sea from Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic to Barrow, Alaska.

The question is, why were Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears off Prudhoe Bay (see map of the study area below), still hunting and capturing only adult and subadult ringed seals from sea ice leads when newborn ringed seal pups and their mothers should have been plentiful and relatively easily available in their birth lairs on the sea ice (see beloSea polar bears off Prudhoe Bay (see map of the study area below), still hunting and capturing only adult and subadult ringed seals from sea ice leads when newborn ringed seal pups and their mothers should have been plentiful and relatively easily available in their birth lairs on the sea ice (see belosea ice leads when newborn ringed seal pups and their mothers should have been plentiful and relatively easily available in their birth lairs on the sea ice (see belosea ice (see below)?

For the U.S., the area is the Arctic region as defined in the Arctic Research and Policy Act of 1984 as amended, and is «All United States territory north of the Arctic Circle and north and west of the boundary formed by the Porcupine, Yukon, and Kuskokwim Rivers; the Aleutian chain; and adjacent marine areas in the Arctic Ocean and the Beaufort, Bering, and Chukchi Seas.»

The anomalous thin ice in the Beaufort Sea is most influential in making the prediction, but widespread anomalies in this measure contribute, including an area in the Barents Sea.

https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/asl2.423 «In recent years, winter westerly winds over the Beaufort Sea and summer anticyclonic circulation over the Arctic toward the Fram Strait have contributed to accelerated decreases in sea ice over areas east of Europe and north of AlasSea and summer anticyclonic circulation over the Arctic toward the Fram Strait have contributed to accelerated decreases in sea ice over areas east of Europe and north of Alassea ice over areas east of Europe and north of Alaska.

Rigor et al.; 4.2 million square kilometers; Statistical — age estimates In comparison to 2007 and 2008, there is much more first year (FY) ice in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas in 2009, which we expect to precondition this area for a more extensive retreat than in 2007 and 2008.

In previous record sea ice minima years, ice area anomalies were confined to certain sectors (N. Atlantic, Beaufort / Bering Sea, etcsea ice minima years, ice area anomalies were confined to certain sectors (N. Atlantic, Beaufort / Bering Sea, etcSea, etc.).

The two lease sales were scheduled for 2016 and 2017 for offshore areas in Beaufort and the Chukchi Sea.