Sentences with phrase «ocean pack ice»
Conversely, low sea level pressure anomalies over the Beaufort Sea and Canada Basin keep the Arctic Ocean pack ice up against the western entrance.
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Researchers were astounded when, in the fall of 2007, they discovered that the year - round ice pack in the Arctic Ocean had lost some 20 percent of its mass in just two years, setting a new record low since satellite imagery began documenting the terrain in 1978.
A young polar bear stands on pack ice over deep waters in the Arctic Ocean in October 2009, during a major research project headed by the University of Wyoming.
The scientists — whose names are secret — plan to map the ice pack and the ocean floor beneath it, monitor patterns of ocean circulation and analyse water samples for evidence of pollution.
Other scientists show how robotic drones, called Seagliders, swoop under the ice to track the movement of the pack and how it changes as ocean conditions change.
«The presence of ice on the continents and pack ice on the oceans would inhibit both silicate weathering and photosynthesis, which are the two major sinks for CO2 at present.»
Other indicators such as ocean acidification, increasing deep ocean heat, melting ice and permafrost, shrinking snow pack, and sea level rise further make the case that the additional carbon dioxide is affecting the global climate system.
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Depending on the extent of the ice pack, females may need to travel some 50 miles (80 kilometers) just to reach the open ocean, where they will feed on fish, squid, and krill.
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It is not well known that multi-year sea ice, as from the Arctic Ocean Ice pack, is nearly as pure as distilled water, free of salt, and makes a most delicious cup of tice, as from the Arctic Ocean Ice pack, is nearly as pure as distilled water, free of salt, and makes a most delicious cup of tIce pack, is nearly as pure as distilled water, free of salt, and makes a most delicious cup of tea.
«Warm ocean waters helped contribute to ice losses this year, pushing the already thin ice pack over the edge,» said Meier.
He notes that the sat photos show that cloud cover remains low and that the ice is very mobile at a time when the pack should be most firm (not really a surprise since ocean temps are much more important than air temps, and apparently it's the ocean temps that have been the largest factor in the recent sharp sea ice reduction).
Much more of the Arctic ocean was comprised of individual broken ice floes and the pack ice had holes in it exposing ocean in many places.
Having said that, it is a really small effect — if the entire Arctic summer sea ice pack melted (average thickness 2 metres, density ~ 920 kg / m3, area 3 × 10 ^ 6 km ^ 2 (0.8 % total ocean area) = > a 4.5 cm rise instantly which implies a global sea level rise of 0.36 mm.
Under historical conditions, these females and their young would have foraged offshore in the Chukchi, resting on sea ice pans and benefiting from the ocean calming effects of pack ice.
People living around the fjord of Dyrafjordur, which last week was almost filled with the ice, were keeping an eye on the sea, conscious that the bears live on the pack ice that covers much of the Arctic ocean.
But other changes are occurring such as the melting of glaciers and ice packs in the Arctic and the acidification of the oceans.
Six types of instruments aboard Aqua are to scan through the atmosphere down to the surface, gathering the most detailed data ever on water vapor in clouds, ice crystals in the air, evaporation, water in the oceans, icebergs and other sea ice, as well as glaciers and snow pack on land.
As the ice pack becomes smaller ever earlier into the melting season, more and more sunlight gets soaked up by dark ocean waters, effectively warming up the ocean.
Analyzing satellite and in - situ ocean data, the researchers said a large amount of pack ice and fresh water was exported into the northwest Labrador Sea in the summer of 2007.
He says that means, aside from some scattered icebergs and clusters of pack ice, the view from space in the fall of, say, 2040, will be of a blue Arctic Ocean.
I the answer is yes, then you can think of he ice pack being sculpted by the vectorial ocean flow in the same way sand dune are.
the pack ice around Antarctica has, on average, been a larger extent decade on decade, indicating the Southern Ocean is cooling, not warming.
There is considerable seasonal variation in how much pack ice of the Arctic ice pack covers the Arctic Ocean.
Sea ice may be discontinuous pieces (ice floes) moved on the ocean surface by wind and currents (pack ice), or a motionless sheet attached to the coast (land - fast ice).
This instruments initially designed for measuring winds at the ocean surface allow to detect both the edge of the ice pack and the nature of the ice which it is made of (first - year, old ice,...).
Some of the individual systems (oceans, ice pack, etc.) within the total atmospheric climate system have got to have impulse response tails that range out to a number of centuries.
Meanwhile, a U.N. report predicted $ 1 trillion in annual damage from ocean acidification if carbon pollution is not curbed, and the Antarctic ice pack appears to have grown this year partly because fresh water from melting glaciers has raised the freezing point of the near - shore Southern Oocean acidification if carbon pollution is not curbed, and the Antarctic ice pack appears to have grown this year partly because fresh water from melting glaciers has raised the freezing point of the near - shore Southern OceanOcean.
When pointed out that, in the Antarctic, there are many places where there is increased ice pack over the last few decades, even if some shelf here or there falls into the ocean, we are told that the mass isn't as important as the area.
How do storms affect the ice pack and the mixing of ocean heat to the surface?
To answer these questions, the team was primarily interested in observing the ocean heat content, vertical mixing of the ocean heat toward the sea ice, and how sunlight penetrated the ice and snow and contributed to melting of the thinner ice pack.
In the Arctic Ocean, the largest losses have been in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas where large open water areas opened up within the ice pack.
That's because ice melting in Greenland and other glaciers is offset by increasing snow pack in Antarctica (melting sea ice has no effect on ocean levels, since the ice floats, for the same reason that ice melting in your glass of water will not cause the glass to overflow).
Polar bears travel south on pack ice, carried by ocean currents.
In past decades, winter meant thick, years - old pack ice would extend over much of the Arctic Ocean.
And now, the National Weather Service projects a whopper of a North Atlantic storm will pack 90 mile - per - hour hurricane strength winds into the Arctic Ocean between Greenland and Iceland this week, breaking up even more sea ice.
This fresh water, together with melt ‐ water from the melting ice pack in summer forms a permanent superficial layer (usually about 200m deep) of low salinity over the entire Arctic Ocean, without which much less seasonal ice would form.
Data also show that the ice pack over the entire Arctic Ocean has in recent decades been shrinking in area and thickness.
By itself, a few hours of temperatures above freezing will likely not have a big impact on the Arctic Ocean ice pack.
But accelerating the export of ice in winter depletes the Arctic Ocean of older thicker ice, leaving the extent of the thinner ice pack more sensitive to summer melt.