Sentences with phrase «beaufort sea shore»

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A young polar bear sitting on the shore in southern Beaufort Sea, Alaska.

The research program he manages, on Herschel Island in the Canadian Beaufort Sea, is at an important site for monitoring erosion of Arctic permafrost coasts, which make up a third of Earth's shores.

The researchers reached that conclusion by capturing more than two dozen polar bears, implanting temperature loggers and tracking their subsequent movements on shore and on ice in the Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska and Canada, during 2008 - 2010.

Kwok et al. 2011 measured snow depth from the air in April 2009, via microwave radar, along several Arctic tracks that included a transect from the Alaskan shore through annual ice in the Beaufort Sea, several through multiyear ice and one through mixed annual plus multiyear ice.

The Arctic coastal regions of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas generally are covered with shore - fast ice for about eight months, but over the past two decades, sea ice extent and thickness have diminished.

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