Sentences with phrase «north polar areas»

Today, if just the current Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica melted, it is estimated that sea level would rise 20 to 251 If we melted all of the ice on Greenland, the North polar areas and the Antarctic in addition, sea level could rise 300» or so.

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Global warming will also mean more forest fires; hurricanes hitting cities that are at present too far north of the equator to be affected by them; tropical diseases spreading beyond their present zones; the extinction of species unable to adapt to warmer temperatures; retreating glaciers and melting polar icecaps; and rising seas inundating coastal areas.

Significantly, this water was found near Mars» north pole, but not in its polar icecaps, indicating that water extends farther than just those areas of trapped water ice, dust and carbon dioxide.

The polar vortex shuffles cold, dry air into the areas of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, northern Minnesota, and / or eastern North Dakota.

The north - polar ice is going very fast; it covers twelve per cent less area and is forty per cent thinner than it was only fifteen years ago.

So the north polar sea ice has been steadily thinning in depth and shrinking in area for more than 30 years.

The weather systems move towards the equator to allow the polar air north of the jet streams to cover a larger oceanic area and thereby draw more heat from the oceans to replace any energy deficit.

Migrating north is an improbable option for the polar bears studied by Obbard, as the northern areas are unable to support greater numbers of bears.

Subarctic Climate Occurs mainly in Northern hemisphere south of Arctic Ocean Winters are long and bitterly cold; summers short and cool Below freezing half the year Tundra Climate Coastal areas along the Arctic Ocean Long, bitterly cold winters In some parts is permafrost, or permanently frozen layers of soil Ice Cap Climate North and South poles Temperature lows of more than - 120 F Snow and ice remain year - round, but little precipitation Highland Climate Found on mountains Includes polar climates plus others; several climates in one As you go up a mountain, temperatures drop and plant life grows sparser.

For this study, the area - weighted polar cap geopotential height and air temperature anomalies (PCH and PCT) were computed for the months December through February using the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) reanalysis at global 2.5 ° resolution for latitudes north of 65 ° N, using the period 1950 to 2016 for analysis69.