Sentences with phrase «global ice amounts»

Global ice amounts are fairly stable (although they might make a very small change over the long - term, global annual variations are small).

Not exact matches

«The idea is that sudden changes could arise when threshold conditions are met — for example, a tipping point arises whereby a large amount of ice is released suddenly into global oceans.

Thus the amount of snow and ice cover in the Arctic during the high - sunlight season is assumed to have a major impact on global climate.

Greenland's ice sheet melts and sends large amounts of fresh water into the coastal waters, where it is of major importance for local production but potentially also for global ocean currents.

A relatively small amount of melting over a few decades, the authors say, will inexorably lead to the destabilization of the entire ice sheet and the rise of global sea levels by as much as 3 meters.

Rising temperatures have caused the amount of Arctic sea ice to shrink dramatically since global observations began in the 1970s.

While the water under the Antarctic ice is not itself related to global warming, the suprisingly large amount of water, the surprising speed with which it moves, and its effect of «lubricating» the movement of the Antarctic ice, may affect how the ice sheets respond to warming.

In some sense, the search for a theory of glacial - interglacial cycles amounts to a search for the «rectifier» which turns the modulation of the amplitude of the seasonal forcing into a rectified signal in global ice volume.

«The reason for the layering is that global warming in parts of Antarctica is causing land - based ice to melt, adding massive amounts of freshwater to the ocean surface,» said ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science researcher Prof Matthew England an author of the paper.

«Earth is losing a huge amount of ice to the ocean annually, and these new results will help us answer important questions in terms of both sea rise and how the planet's cold regions are responding to global change,» said University of Colorado Boulder physics professor John Wahr, who helped lead the study.

As a result, the amount of global sea ice continues a net downward trend.

Using its three main science instruments, Odyssey has mapped the global distribution of many minerals and chemical elements across the Martian surface, found evidence of large amounts of buried water ice near the planet's poles and measured the radiation environment in low Mars orbit, which could help NASA plan out future manned missions to the Red Planet.

Global warming induced by increasing CO2 will cause ice to melt and hence sea level to rise as the global volume of ice moves toward the quasi-equilibrium amount that exists for a given global temperatureGlobal warming induced by increasing CO2 will cause ice to melt and hence sea level to rise as the global volume of ice moves toward the quasi-equilibrium amount that exists for a given global temperatureglobal volume of ice moves toward the quasi-equilibrium amount that exists for a given global temperatureglobal temperature [53].

[Response: The «big picture» is that Arctic ice is on a very clear downward trend, particularly in summer and no amount of cherry picking of individual days, subtle jumping from Arctic to global as if I wouldn't notice, and restatements of exactly the same incorrect «factoid» as Will, go any distance towards refuting that.

Geoengineering proposals fall into at least three broad categories: 1) managing atmospheric greenhouse gases (e.g., ocean fertilization and atmospheric carbon capture and sequestration), 2) cooling the Earth by reflecting sunlight (e.g., putting reflective particles into the atmosphere, putting mirrors in space to reflect the sun's energy, increasing surface reflectivity and altering the amount or characteristics of clouds), and 3) moderating specific impacts of global warming (e.g., efforts to limit sea level rise by increasing land storage of water, protecting ice sheets or artificially enhancing mountain glaciers).

And there is no doubt that continued global warming will lead to a reduction in the amount of summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean.

Thus, the concept of an emissions budget is very useful to get the message across that the amount of CO2 that we can still emit in total (not per year) is limited if we want to stabilise global temperature at a given level, so any delay in reducing emissions can be detrimental — especially if we cross tipping points in the climate system, e.g trigger the complete loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

(1) One is the ice sheet and glacier mechanical collapse, which doesn't require a whole lot more warming, but will happen with some set minimum amount of warming over some time period; and (2) the other is global warming that keeps increasing beyond the level needed to cause # 1, which among other things will perhaps lead to positive carbon feedbacks (e.g., from melting permafrost and hydrates).

In our current situation, saying global warming is more appropriate since we can no longer enter an ice age due to the amount of imposed forcing

So to you, when Dr. Maslowski said, «My claim is that the global climate models underestimate the amount of heat delivered to the sea ice by oceanic advection,» You think that he means a few outlier models instead of the main bulk of modeled knowledge?

`'» My claim is that the global climate models underestimate the amount of heat delivered to the sea ice by oceanic advection,» Professor Maslowski said.»

Between April 2002 and April 2006, GRACE data uncovered ice mass loss in Greenland of 248 ± 36 cubic kilometers per year, an amount equivalent to a global sea rise of 0.5 ± 0.1 millimeters per year.

And the global total amount of sea ice is above normal.

It may be worth considering that if climate models are underplaying the actual amount of Arctic sea ice loss, and if Arctic sea ice loss is a positive feedback on global temperature, then, the observed rate of Arctic sea ice loss ought to be applying a warming pressure over and above that from greenhouse gas emissions.

«The Earth is losing an incredible amount of ice to the oceans annually, and these new results will help us answer important questions in terms of both sea rise and how the planet's cold regions are responding to global change,» study researcher John Wahr, a professor of physics at the University of Colorado, said in a press release issued by the Boulder campus.

I mean, just think about the oceans, and the amount of heat water can store, the amount of heat it takes to melt ice, and you realize the melting ice caps and the warming oceans are more than enough proof that global warming exists.

That's because they spent a decade telling everyone that the record high amounts of ice were actually caused by global warming.

If a relatively small chunk of ice currently plugging the edge of an ice sheet in Antarctica were to melt, it could release massive amounts of ice into the ocean that would significantly increase global sea level for the next 10,000 years, according to a new report.

Sea level equivalent (SLE)- The change in global average sea level that would occur if a given amount of water or ice were added to or removed from the oceans.

From historic droughts around the world and in places like California, Syria, Brazil and Iran to inexorably increasing glacial melt; from an expanding blight of fish killing and water poisoning algae blooms in lakes, rivers and oceans to a growing rash of global record rainfall events; and from record Arctic sea ice volume losses approaching 80 percent at the end of the summer of 2012 to a rapidly thawing permafrost zone explosively emitting an ever - increasing amount of methane and CO2, it's already a disastrous train - wreck.

These are all good signs — but, set against the rapid disintegration of polar ice caps and the record global temperatures each of the last three years, they still amount to too little.

Natural variability and greenhouse gas emissions (and the resulting rise in global temperatures) likely worked together to melt greater amounts of Arctic sea ice.

The increases used were sufficient to melt all sea ice at high latitudes, and amounted to 15 % on the global average.

People who are alarmed by human - caused global warming still argue that Arctic sea ice extent is varying by smaller and smaller amounts each season.

His hypothesis is that «long - term variations in the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth are the main and principal reasons driving and defining the whole mechanism of climatic changes from the global warmings to the Little Ice Ages to the big glacial periods», not carbon dioxide.

Rising global temperatures are causing increasingly large amounts of ice in the Arctic to melt, with possibly huge environmental consequences.

For example, the dramatic decline of summer sea ice in the Arctic — a loss of ice cover roughly equal to half the area of the continental United States — exacerbates global warming by reducing the reflectivity of Earth's surface and increasing the amount of heat absorbed.

Global warming induced by increasing CO2 will cause ice to melt and hence sea level to rise as the global volume of ice moves toward the quasi-equilibrium amount that exists for a given global temperatureGlobal warming induced by increasing CO2 will cause ice to melt and hence sea level to rise as the global volume of ice moves toward the quasi-equilibrium amount that exists for a given global temperatureglobal volume of ice moves toward the quasi-equilibrium amount that exists for a given global temperatureglobal temperature [53].

Now we have poor hunting conditions in the Bering Strait touted as evidence that «walrus migration patterns have changed» with the implication that this is because ``... the past eight years have had the eight lowest amounts of summer sea ice on record» due to man - made global warming.

You can't reference actual evidence that the total amount of global ice is increasing because it is not true.

Mean sea level (MSL) evolution has a direct impact on coastal areas and is a crucial index of climate change since it reflects both the amount of heat added in the ocean and the mass loss due to land ice melt (e.g. IPCC, 2013; Dieng et al., 2017) Long - term and inter-annual variations of the sea level are observed at global and regional scales.

Since «there's an over two orders of magnitude (~ 120) difference between the amount of energy needed to add a litre to the ocean from melting ice (~ 334KJ)[and] thermal expansion of sea water (~ 40,000 KJ)», this means that sea - level rise, often offered as a «proxy» for «global warming», is actually not important.

They are assuming that a 2C rise in global temperatures will occur, sometime between 2015 and 2052, and this will affect particularly the sea ice extent, winds and the amount of open water on which these colonies depend.

That heat man adds to the atmosphere each day is radiated to the black sky and the infinitesimal amount left helps melt the ice during global warming, should be called Global Defrosglobal warming, should be called Global DefrosGlobal Defrosting,.

My own view is that the initiating mechanism is not small shifts in insolation hitting some kind of trigger related to snow albedo (the land - sea snow - ice area is relatively small compared to potential shifts in cloud amount and spatial distribution)-- rather it is shifts in global winds which likely relate to shifts in the jetstream (linked to...?

And Chris Fogwill, senior research associate at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, Australia, who led the study, says: «The reason for the layering is that global warming in parts of Antarctica is causing land - based ice to melt, adding massive amounts of cool freshwater to the ocean surface.

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Thirteen years of GRACE data provide an excellent picture of the current mass changes of Greenland and Antarctica, with mass loss in the GRACE period 2002 - 15 amounting to 265 ± 25 GT / yr for Greenland (including peripheral ice caps), and 95 ± 50 GT / year for Antarctica, corresponding to 0.72 mm / year and 0.26 mm / year average global sea level change.

I have been wondering if the amount of heat required to melt (latent heat of fusion and all that) the vast amounts of ice in the arctic and the various ice glaciers contributes at all to the stabilizing of the rising global temperature.

They anticipate that the global warming - induced melting of mountain glaciers and ice caps will account for the brunt of that rise, as much as 2 - 3 times more than the amount originally predicted.