Sentences with phrase «canadian beaufort»

Couture NJ, Irrgang A, Pollard W, Lantuit H, Fritz M Coastal Erosion of Permafrost Soils Along the Yukon Coastal Plain and Fluxes of Organic Carbon to the Canadian Beaufort Sea.

The AMSR - E image for 5 July (http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de:8084/amsr/amsre.html) is similar in extent and also shows lower ice concentrations in the Canadian Beaufort Sea and north along 130 ° E.

In the latter half of June and into July 2013 the low shifted more to the Atlantic sector with a hint of the AD pattern in the Canadian Beaufort Sea (Figure 4).

In 2005, Devon Energy drilled the first offshore well in the Canadian Beaufort Sea since 1989, and more may follow.

For example, I worked on a project in the Barents and Kara seas with a team coming from the Canadian Beaufort and a lot of what they had learned was useful, but there was also a lot they didn't know about.

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 Canadian Beaufort happens to be one of those places.»

Not exact matches

Norway's state - owned Statoil has cold - weather expertise with which it hopes to exploit deposits in the Barents Sea, and Canada - based Imperial Oil is among a handful of companies bidding on Canadian claims in the Beaufort Sea.

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.

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

The paper, «Long - distance swimming by polar bears (Ursus maritimus) of the southern Beaufort Sea during years of extensive open water,» is published in the Canadian Journal of Zoology.

Thus, the data indicate a continued trend towards flushing of old multiyear ice out of Canadian Basin into the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.

We can observe the gyre in the Beaufort Sea, offshore of the Canadian and Alaskan coasts as well as the ice flux leaving the Arctic Ocean through the Fram Straight, between Greenland and the Svalbard archipelago.

In addition, the persistence of regional features (such as above - normal multi-year ice concentrations compared to recent years in the southern Beaufort and Chukchi Seas) and geographic constraints (such as the confinement of ice in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago) can lend predictive skill to forecasts.

Barber et al.: In situ observations from Canadian Research Icebreaker (NGCC) Amundsen indicate that the multi-year sea ice pack in the Southern Beaufort Sea was not as ubiquitous as it appeared within satellite remote sensing data products in early September 2009.

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

In the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, ice distribution mimicks the Beaufort Gyre circulation pattern with advection of ice from the high Canadian Arctic into the Beaufort Sea and export of ice northward in the Chukchi Sea.

Barber spoke shortly after returning from an expedition that sought — and largely failed to find — a huge multiyear ice pack that should have been in the Beaufort Sea off the Canadian coastal town of Tuktoyaktuk.

I think the pre-1953 data is more limited in Chukchi, Beaufort and Canadian Islands than in the Atlantic Sector (covered by DMI, norwegian maps, ACSYS)

Today — due to the important, irreplaceable values of its Arctic waters for Indigenous, Alaska Native and local communities» subsistence and cultures, wildlife and wildlife habitat, and scientific research; the vulnerability of these ecosystems to an oil spill; and the unique logistical, operational, safety, and scientific challenges and risks of oil extraction and spill response in Arctic waters — the United States is designating the vast majority of U.S. waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas leasing, and Canada will designate all Arctic Canadian waters as indefinitely off limits to future offshore Arctic oil and gas licensing, to be reviewed every five years through a climate and marine science - based life - cycle assessment.

At the same time, the ice in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas is seeing less multiyear ice drifting in from the Canadian Arctic, with more first - year ice prevalent in 2011 than in past years.