Sentences with phrase «during a record melting»
During a record melting jag this past summer, the Greenland ice sheet lost 552 billion tons (19 billion tons lower than the previous low), and the volume of sea ice fell to half the volume it had four years ago.
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To get these findings, a NASA - funded team led by Laurence Smith, chair of the geography department at UCLA, spent six days on the ice during July 2012 — directly after a record - setting ice sheet melt.
What sets this melt season apart from 2007 is that unlike during the previous record year, the weather conditions throughout the melt season were not particularly favorable for melting.
The lowest extent on record came during the remarkable summer melt season of 2012, fueled in part by summer storms that moved ice into warm waters.
For example, the 2012 record minimum came during the remarkable summer melt season of 2012 and was fueled in part by summer storms that moved ice into warm waters.
The fund has a strong record, 4.5 % annual returns over the past 17 years and a maximum drawdown of just 4.25 % (during the 2008 market melt), a broad and stable management team and the resources of large analyst corps to draw upon.
Vibrant paintings, powerful murals, collage, photography, revolutionary clothing designs and sculptures made with Black hair, melted records, and tights — the variety of artworks reflects the many viewpoints of artists and collectives at work during these explosive times.
Arctic sea ice has been shrinking more rapidly, falling to its lowest volume and second lowest area on record during the 2011 summer melt season.
In a new study, Box and a team of researchers describe the decline in ice sheet reflectivity and the reasons behind it, noting that if current trends continue, the area of ice that melts during the summer season is likely to expand to cover all of Greenland for the first time in the observational record, rather than just the lower elevations at the edges of the continent, as is the case today.
And all this during a year that has had record warmth and record ice melt in the Arctic?
And if you look at zonal temperature records (ie GISTemp below), the place with the big temperature during the early 20th century was the high northern latutudes that do conveniently have ample ice to melt.
In fact, the jet stream swung north to latitudes never before observed at that time of year; the winds during July reversed their normal pattern, and southern Greenland — where melting has been at record levels for most of the decade — actually saw more snowfall and lower melting in 2015.
The Arctic ice pack, according to the clip, remains «young and thin,» and is more susceptible to melting during summer months than the thicker, strong ice pack recorded during the 1980s.
This satellite image shows the record melting of Greenland's ice sheet in 2007: the red is the surface area of the ice sheet that had measurable melting during that summer.1
«Our study demonstrates that low melt years during the 1979 - 2009 satellite record are related to the strength of the westerly winds that encircle Antarctica, known as the Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode (SAM).
Second, and less important but still rather spectacular, was the melting of virtually every square inch of the surface of this ice sheet over a short period of a few days during the hottest part of the summer, a phenomenon observed every few hundred years but nevertheless an ominous event considering that it happened just as the aforementioned record ice mass loss was being observed and measured.
A new NASA study finds that during Greenland's hottest summers on record, 2010 and 2012, the ice in Rink Glacier on the island's west coast didn't just melt faster than usual, it slid through the glacier's interior in a gigantic wave, like a warmed freezer pop sliding out of its plastic casing.
«The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now, but now they're setting records,» POTUS told host Piers Morgan during an interview on UK television network ITV broadcast Sunday.
It shows that April saw its second - lowest sea ice extent on record, driven by a massive meltdown in the Bering Sea (reminder: ice started melting there during Arctic winter)....
«During the Holocene Climatic Optimum of 8,000 to 5,000 years ago, the Arctic sea ice was less than 50 % (so less than 2.6 mln sq km) of the lowest extent on satellite record, the 2007 melting record,... during the HCO or HTM (Holocene Thermal Maximum) it was warmer than today — in the Arctic on average about 1.6 degrees Celsius.&During the Holocene Climatic Optimum of 8,000 to 5,000 years ago, the Arctic sea ice was less than 50 % (so less than 2.6 mln sq km) of the lowest extent on satellite record, the 2007 melting record,... during the HCO or HTM (Holocene Thermal Maximum) it was warmer than today — in the Arctic on average about 1.6 degrees Celsius.&during the HCO or HTM (Holocene Thermal Maximum) it was warmer than today — in the Arctic on average about 1.6 degrees Celsius.»
Thin ice makes it more difficult to rely on conventional wisdom, although this year has proven that a lack of melting momentum during May and June followed by weather conditions during July and August that do not favour melt / export / compaction can still prevent a record, even if volume was at a record low for much of the year.