Sentences with phrase «global sea ice set»

Global sea ice set a clear record low in the first half of 2017, driven in large part by record low Antarctic sea ice cover.

Not exact matches

But skyrocketing Arctic temperatures, which are rising twice as fast as the global average, have set off a downward spiral in sea ice levels.

Now to contribute a single event to Global Warming, one has to look at the weather conditions, and if patterns are sighted which are tied to alteration of sea ice decline (our new atmosphere set up), we can connect the dots here too.

-- A new Web site, Future of Arctic Sea Ice and Global Impacts, has been set up by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Global mean temperatures in 2011 did not reach the record - setting levels of 2010, but were still the highest observed in a La Niña year, and Arctic sea - ice extent fell to near - record - low levels.

But the real news here is that a human - forced warming of the globe has set a monstrous pile of ice, once thought stable, into a motion that will result in yet more global sea level rise.

Tidal variability in more complex regional models that include sea ice, ice shelves, and ocean currents that vary with depth, is obtained by using global models to set tides at the regional model's open boundaries.

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The second set of simulations, referred to as Tropical Ocean - Global Atmosphere (TOGA) experiments, are forced with observed SSTs for the 30 ° N — 30 ° S domain only, while SSTs and sea ice concentrations outside of the domain are set to climatology.

The first set of simulations, referred to as Global Atmosphere - Global Ocean (GOGA) experiments, are forced with prescribed SST and sea ice concentrations from the observational datasets of Hurrell et al. (2008) for 1979 — 2008, with different initial conditions for each ensemble member.

This study finds that global warming of 0.6 ºC in the past 30 years has been driven mainly by increasing greenhouse gases and only moderate additional climate forcing is likely to set in motion disintegration of the West Antarctic ice sheet and Arctic sea ice.

This study finds that global warming of 0.6 °C in the past 30 years has been driven mainly by increasing greenhouse gases, and only moderate additional climate forcing is likely to set in motion disintegration of the West Antarctic ice sheet and Arctic sea ice.

The two - day FAMOS workshop will include sessions on 2017 sea ice highlights and sea ice / ocean predictions, reports of working groups conducting collaborative projects, large - scale arctic climate modeling (ice - ocean, regional coupled, global coupled), small (eddies) and very small (mixing) processes and their representation and / or parameterization in models, and new hypotheses, data sets, intriguing findings, proposals for new experiments and plans for 2018 FAMOS special volume of publications.

Diurnal to decadal global forcing for ocean and sea - ice models: the data sets and flux climatologies.

Alternative means of depicting the polar data sets is now quite good, but an integrated assessment to analyze the global sea ice data is still missing.

In early 2017, the Arctic, Antarctic and Global Sea Ice Area Extent were each at the lowest level in the data set that starts 1979.