Sentences with phrase «kara sea»

These same 2 - m temperature anomalies were evaluated with respect to the Barents — Kara Sea region (65 to 80 ° N, 10 to 100 ° E) at 850 hPa (Fig. 10d).

At the same time, substantial and early ice retreat in the Kara Sea (see contribution by Gerland et al., below) has resulted in favorable shipping conditions along the Northern Sea Route (NSR).

Sea ice extent was lower than normal in much of the Arctic, and the Kara Sea region had particularly low ice extent.

Volume of the Kara Sea ice could be forecast one to two winters in advance.

Intensity of the previous winter snow and the summer rains on the Central Siberian Plateau could be a good guide since the fresh waters of the two rivers just about reach Kara Sea before winter ice sets in.

There are complex teleconnections in the climate system, and in the Barents - Kara Sea we might have discovered a powerful feedback mechanism.»

Warming of the air over the Barents - Kara Sea seems to bring cold winter winds to Europe.

The correlation between these phenomena and cold winters is relatively weak, compared to the new findings referring to the processes in the Barents - Kara Sea.

The researchers base their assumptions on simulations with an elaborate computer model of general circulation, ECHAM5, focusing on the Barents - Kara Sea north of Norway and Russia where a drastic reduction of ice was observed in the cold European winter of 2005 - 06.

Sea ice extent for early July (Figure 4) shows not only anomalous open water areas in Baffin Bay, Hudson Bay, Kara Sea, and north of the Barents Sea, but also substantial open water areas within the central sea ice pack west of Banks Island and northeast of the New Siberian Islands.

These open areas and that of the Kara Sea are consistent with thin sea ice and the AD weather pattern for early June.

Russia had its warmest November since records began there in 1891, with some parts of the country, including Siberia and the Arctic islands in the Kara Sea, seeing temperatures that were more than 14 °F above the typical monthly average.

Moreover, significant trends in sensible heat and evaporation rates are evident in satellite - derived datasets, especially in the Barents - Kara Sea region in the fall due to increases in the air - sea temperature and humidity gradients, collocated with reductions in sea ice.

At the same time, they point towards below normal ice extent in the Barents / Kara Sea, also compared to the record minimum in 2007, which they see coupled to oceanic processes and promoting further warming of surface waters in the region.

The model predicts that large negative sea ice concentration anomalies (< -40 %) will occur in the Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, Laptev Sea, Kara Sea and Barents Sea in September 2016.

Only in the Kara Sea is ice cover dominated by thermodynamic factors, while ice cover in the other basins is dominated by the effects of wind and currents.

This low frequency signal is strongest in the Kara Sea (where very strong ice minima occurred in 1940 and at 2000 the end of the data series studied) and decays eastward so that in the Chukchi Sea ice cover is dominated by decadal fluctuations.

But looking at the May 2016 melt pond fraction in our sea ice simulation, the pond fraction is higher in the Kara Sea, north of Svalbard and in the Fram Strait compared to May 2015 and with a lesser extent to May 2012, but lower in the East Siberian Sea and the Arctic Basin.

This low frequency signal is strongest in the Kara Sea (where very strong ice minima occurred in 1940 and at 2000 the end of the data series studied)»

Michael, I agree with you that a major abrupt methane release is probably negligible, but I'd be lying if I said the recent findings in the Kara Sea, ESAS, and Yamal Peninsula didn't make me a bit uneasy.

It was previously proposed that the permafrost in the Kara Sea, and other Arctic areas, extends to water depths up to 100 meters, creating a seal that gas can not bypass.

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Kara Sea is a section of the Arctic Ocean between Novaya Zemlya and the Yamal Peninsula on the Siberian mainland.

Offshore permafrost decay and massive seabed methane escape in water depths > 20 m at the South Kara Sea shelf

Siberian permafrost extends to the seabed of the Kara Sea, and it is thawing.

Although young ringed seals are considered the primary prey of polar bears throughout the Arctic, young harp seals undoubtedly represent an increasingly important resource for populations of Davis Strait, East Greenland and Kara Sea bears.

The Kara Sea remains frozen till late in the summer in Blanchard - Wrigglesworth et al., but melts relatively early in Cullather et al. and Barthelemy et al.'s outlooks.

By mid-August, the Laptev Sea was essentially ice - free, while the East Siberian and Kara sea ice also declined substantially in July and August.

Ice growth for December occurred primarily within the Chukchi Sea, Kara Sea, and Hudson Bay — areas that experienced a late seasonal freeze - up.

Seasonal sea ice retreat in 2012 began with a major reduction event in early June (Figure 2) associated with persistent high pressure over the Beaufort Sea and low pressure over the Kara Sea, now referred to as the Arctic Dipole (AD) weather pattern (see discussion of the AD in previous Outlooks).

In August, the center of the high pressure region shifted to over the Kara Sea, while low surface pressure emerged over the Beaufort Sea.

In context of the stadium wave, we see that the Kara Sea sea ice (WIE) may have begun recovering, with an expected continued reduction of East Siberian sea ice.

The study looked at a key region of Arctic ice melt in the Barents - Kara Sea, north of Scandinavia and west of Russia.

... One of those regions where the ice is disappearing the fastest is [in] Barents - Kara Sea.»

«By doing it 100 times, which is something of course we can't do with the real world, they were able to generate statistics that showed the extra cold winters in Asia were twice as likely to occur when they put reduced sea ice in the Barents - Kara Sea, as compared to when there was lots of ice in that area.»

The recent NSIDC sea ice chart from 9 August (Figure 4) shows major open water areas in the eastern Beaufort Sea, East Siberian Sea, and Kara Sea, and a strip of sea ice continuing in the Chukchi Sea.

The pattern in Figure 3 is favorable for sea ice loss near the Canadian side of the North Pole and in the Kara Sea, but not in the Pacific Arctic as in previous summers.

Northward winds in the European sector of Arctic provided usual conditions for ice melting in the Barents Sea and lesser in the Kara Sea.

Rapid retreat of the ice cover in the Kara Sea and early melt out of Hudson Bay contributed to this new record low.

Ice - free areas were beginning to open up in the northern Kara Sea and north of Bering Strait.

Other environmental concerns relate to the radioactive contamination of the Arctic Ocean from, for example, Russian radioactive waste dump sites in the Kara Sea [42] and Cold War nuclear test sites such as Novaya Zemlya.

Numerous recent studies based on both observations and model simulations indicate that reduced Barents - Kara sea ice in late fall favors a strengthened and northwestward expansion of the Siberian high, increased poleward heat flux, weakened polar vortex, and ultimately a negative AO.

In that case it is important to have a more precise statement, so I went back to check the reference Journal of Marine Systems Volume 48, Issues 1 - 4, July 2004, Pages 133 - 157 Sea ice from the Kara Sea region reaches Fram Strait from 2 to 4 years (min 2 years) on average, and while sea ice from the Laptev Sea takes roughly 4 — 6 years (min 3 years) to reach Fram Strait»... from the East Siberian, Chukchi and Beaufort seas within 6 — 10 years.

It is generally taken to include Baffin Bay, Barents Sea, Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, East Siberian Sea, Greenland Sea, Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, White Sea and other tributary bodies of water.

Progress in understanding this connection has converged on two key factors: (1) the variability of autumn snow cover in Eurasia, and (2) the variability of sea ice coverage in the Barents - Kara Sea during late fall and early winter.

Because low Barents - Kara sea ice and high Eurasian snow cover favor northwestward expansion of the Siberian high, this atmospheric pattern increases the probability of driving cold Siberian air southeastward into populous East Asia.

At least a dozen polar bears that besieged a remote Russian weather station on an island in the Kara Sea during the first two weeks of September prompted a few media pundits to suggest that loss of summer sea ice due to global warming may be forcing polar bears to hunt humans for food.

At stage two, ice growth has expanded eastward, peaking in the Kara Sea region.

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It includes sea ice extent of the Kara Sea and the seas of EIE.