Sentences with phrase «changes at the poles»

Juday made his remarks at a workshop here sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences» Polar Research Board on climate and ecosystem changes at both poles.

Dr Hogg added: «There are really exciting opportunities for students to work with Earth Observation scientists on major changes at the poles.

Also: researchers see new changes at the poles — from slippery ice sheets to mysterious gasses.

re14 Ike Solem >... the rapid changes at the poles seem to involve a lot of heat transport into that region via both the atmosphere and the oceans.

Scientists are still trying to decide how the poleward heat transport will be affected by global warming — but the rapid changes at the poles seem to involve a lot of heat transport into that region via both the atmosphere and the oceans.

It won't change at the poles probably, but at the periphary of the permanent ice.

Both the Guardian and the Independent have much longer reports by their science correspondents on a new report from the University of East Anglia: «Climate change at the poles IS man - made» (Independent) and «Manmade global warming evident on every continent, polar report finds» (Guardian).

Not exact matches

China is holding a once - every - five - years meeting this week that is expected to usher in a new era of leaders — but no change at the top of the totem pole.

But the two points mark the antipodes of New York City's axis of religious dedication: to timelessness at one pole, to change at the other.On the 50th....

I know that in the last ten or 20 or 30 years, our impact has grown so much that we're changing even those places we don't inhabit — changing the way the weather works, changing the plants and animals that live at the poles and deep in the jungle.

We are caught in the catch 22 else we would have heard something positive from above MR is caught between supporters and high management / owners but he has to come out of it and change the way he conducts his approach to situations in front of him and become the 12th man chelsea antonio conte did very well tonight I must admit I am a fan as I watched him conduct Italy at the euros and now tonight with chelsea he is the 12 man and after watching the opening matches of the premier league I think it is going to be between city chelsea united for the pole position i know its to early to call but the matches down the road between Chelsea and Liverpool and united and city should give us a better insight but i think conte might just run away with it Arsenal again will face another tough match Leicester as they lost at the weekend too they will have to pull their socks up at home the liverpool match should awaken every one at the Arsenal and the Leicester meeting wont be easy but it might just turn our boys to real warriors

With Vettel stealing pole at the last minute at least there was no longer a chance of the pole - sitter changing ahead of the race.

Now backed by Red Bull and heading to F1, Verstappen was relegated from pole to eleventh on the grid by one of three ten - place grid penalties for a single engine change in race two at Imola.

Despite this effect, the known ice loss at both poles suggests that embedded in the local rises is a signal of current climate change — researchers just have to tease it out.

The poles are on the front lines of climate change — melting ice, thawing permafrost, warming temperatures — but they are also at the forefront of weather patterns, global oceanic circulation and the marine food chain.

The rapid changes seen at Earth's poles could impact every corner of the globe, panelists said at a 16 June Congressional briefing co-organized by AAAS.

But as the seasons changed, light illuminated a bizarre six - sided swirl of gases at the pole (shown here in false color).

«During last warming period, Antarctica heated up two to three times more than planet average: Amplification of warming at poles consistent with today's climate change models.»

A new survey aims to reveal how people living at the «third pole» are changing in response to global warming

Instead, the team found that, on average, crop pests have been moving towards the poles at 2.7 kilometres per year, which is very close to the rate of climate change.

Meanwhile, carbon dioxide ice at the south pole has dwindled for three consecutive summers, suggesting long - term climate change is under way.

Cheung and his colleague used modeling to predict how 802 commercially important species of fish and invertebrates react to warming water temperatures, other changing ocean properties, and new habitats opening up at the poles.

New reports — from Greenland to Antarctica — show rising temperatures at both poles and changing conditions in what were once stable, icebound areas.

The experiment will run until early 2017 and help climate modelers determine how warming at Earth's poles could change global weather patterns.

ICESat - II, which will track changes in ice cover at the poles, could launch as early as 2014.

«As we approach Saturn's summer solstice in 2017, lighting conditions over its north pole will improve, and we are excited to track the changes that occur both inside and outside the hexagon boundary,» Scott Edgington, Cassini deputy project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said in a statement in 2013.

«As we approach Saturn's summer solstice in 2017, lighting conditions over its north pole will improve, and we are excited to track the changes that occur both inside and outside the hexagon boundary,» said Scott Edgington, Cassini deputy project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..

«I predict that due to the loss of these atmospheric whirlpools, the average temperature on Jupiter will change by as much as 10 degrees Celsius, getting warmer near the equator and cooler at the poles,» says Marcus.

But if temperatures at the poles change more rapidly than those at the equator, the dual constraints on the jet streams become imbalanced.

It is essentially irrelevant whether the insolation has changed at that level, both when trying to understand the regional south pole climate changes, and long term climate trends on Mars.

And with 2017 likely going down as one of the warmest years on record worldwide, this year's climate change signal was amplified at the Earth's poles.

These twins in space can measure changes of gravity in land, sub-surface waters, and ice at the poles.

This being a summer tent pole, many of the expected complaints still stick: Much of the dialogue is too average to be memorable yet too obvious to go unnoticed, and nearly every one of the film's game - changing plot pivots takes conspicuous place at the worst time possible.

School grounds should be inspected for potential hazards such as: • Verandah poles outside doorways, in thoroughfares or in situations where students are unlikely to see them, especially while running; • Steps and changes in level which are poorly proportioned, difficult to see or lack handrails; • Fencing, gates and railings which students climb and which have structural problems, sharp protrusions, splinters or other hazards; • Trip hazards at ground level — protruding drainage pit covers, irregular paving, cracks or tree roots in thoroughfares, broken off post or other remnants of old structures; • Loose gravely surfaces on slopes and where students run; • Slippery patches which may stay damp in winter; • Rocks which students can fall onto or throw around; • Embankments which students can slip down or which have protruding sharp objects; • Blind corners in busy areas; taps and hoses which are positioned where students play or walk; window glass at low levels through which students could fall; • Holes, cracks or exposed irrigation fixtures in ovals; • Trees or shrubs with poisonous parts, sharp spikes or thorns or branches at eye level; • Splinters and deteriorating timbers in seats, retaining edges and other wooden constructions; • sSeds or other areas with hazardous chemicals or machinery to which students have access; rubbish skips which students can climb into or around, or which place students at risk when trucks enter the school; • Areas within the site used for car parking when students are present; and, • Sporting equipment such as goal posts or basketball rings which have structural or other design or maintenance problems.

Flirt pole (make your own — directions can be found online; I like the Kong version because it's easy to change out the toy at the end of the line).

If we start out with a balanced system which contains frozen water at the poles, the mid to high latitudes begin to thaw, triggering soil greenhouse gas feedbacks (permafrost thaw and following oxic and anoxic sources add to the greenhouse gas budget), a chronic linear process (which helps to accelerate changes of the equilibrium state, reduces the ability of the atmosphere to break down greenhouse gases — less hydroxide radicals).

There is no doubt that it is upper troposphere cloud that responds to change in local temperature in turn related to periodic change in ozone concentration that is in turn associated with vortex activity at the poles.

[ANDY REVKIN comments: The Antarctic has seen no change in the extent of floating sea ice in recent years, in stark contrast to the situation in the Arctic, and all of this shows the Earth's climate system, particularly at the poles, is not simple — and thus not likely to follow a simple trajectory under a greenhouse push from humans.

re Gavin @ 223 I know what the mean global temperature is (actually, I don't, see below) but the question was why is this a meaningful metric for looking at changes over time, when you could get the same global mean from very different distributions of temperature (eg increase the poles, decrease the tropics) which would have very different interpretations of energy balance (at least if I am right that humidity matters)?

«I predict that due to the loss of these atmospheric whirlpools, the average temperature on Jupiter will change by as much as 10 degrees Celsius, getting warmer near the equator and cooler at the poles,» says Marcus.

It seems to me that all feedback should be expressed as power densities and the thermal sensitivity taken from change in temperature versus solar power density from poles to equator at sea level as at most 0.3 k per w / m ^ 2

It is essentially irrelevant whether the insolation has changed at that level, both when trying to understand the regional south pole climate changes, and long term climate trends on Mars.

In other words, it is only in the last glacial (100 kyr) that we see any change in tropical temperature corresponding to that at the poles.

The vast majority of scientists agree that human activities are influencing changes to the climate — especially at the poles — and believe that the situation requires serious attention.

It is not that the polar regions are amplifying the warming «going on» at lower latitudes, it is that any warming going on AT THE POLES is amplified through inherent positive feedback processes AT THE POLES, and specifically this is primarily the ice - albedo positive feedback process whereby more open water leads to more warming leads to more open water, etc. *** «Climate model simulations have shown that ice albedo feedbacks associated with variations in snow and sea - ice coverage are a key factor in positive feedback mechanisms which amplify climate change at high northern latitudes...&raquat lower latitudes, it is that any warming going on AT THE POLES is amplified through inherent positive feedback processes AT THE POLES, and specifically this is primarily the ice - albedo positive feedback process whereby more open water leads to more warming leads to more open water, etc. *** «Climate model simulations have shown that ice albedo feedbacks associated with variations in snow and sea - ice coverage are a key factor in positive feedback mechanisms which amplify climate change at high northern latitudes...&raquAT THE POLES is amplified through inherent positive feedback processes AT THE POLES, and specifically this is primarily the ice - albedo positive feedback process whereby more open water leads to more warming leads to more open water, etc. *** «Climate model simulations have shown that ice albedo feedbacks associated with variations in snow and sea - ice coverage are a key factor in positive feedback mechanisms which amplify climate change at high northern latitudes...&raquAT THE POLES, and specifically this is primarily the ice - albedo positive feedback process whereby more open water leads to more warming leads to more open water, etc. *** «Climate model simulations have shown that ice albedo feedbacks associated with variations in snow and sea - ice coverage are a key factor in positive feedback mechanisms which amplify climate change at high northern latitudes...&raquat high northern latitudes...»

Ice at the poles does not change the amount of radiation reflected out of Earth's system near as effectively as ice at low latitudes.

And since both sets of rocks contained palaeo - magnetic evidence of the north and south poles» periodical reversals, researchers were able to calibrate the evidence and arrive at an accurate calendar of changing climate conditions, every 405 millennia.

Even though the average temperature stayed the same, there were still regional changes, with cooling in the tropics and warming at both poles (particularly in their respective winters):

When polar ice melts the earth changes shape: mass (ice) which was concentrated at the poles, with a short arm of inertia, is spread evenly around the ocean surface, averaging something like 63 degrees latitude.

Most of the large temperature changes will happen at the poles — where no one lives.