Sentences with phrase «record ice melting»

A 7 °F increase since 1991 contributed to another record ice melting year, 10 % more than the previous one set in 2005.

Expect record ice melt, and another jump toward rising seas.

And all this during a year that has had record warmth and record ice melt in the Arctic?

Not exact matches

But Arctic sea ice has been consistently below the long - term average since 2003 and the summer melts of 2007, 2008 and 2009 were the three largest melts recorded.

The record - setting melt of Arctic sea ice helped set the stage for Hurricane Sandy according to scientists

Record of melt from two west Greenland ice cores showing that modern melt rates (red) are higher than at any time in the record since at least 1550 CE (bRecord of melt from two west Greenland ice cores showing that modern melt rates (red) are higher than at any time in the record since at least 1550 CE (brecord since at least 1550 CE (black).

The research team — which utilized 34,000 data records from 2010 and 2011 — concluded that melting sea ice is diluting seawater and reducing the concentrations of the carbonate minerals critical as building blocks for the shells of marine life.

This year's Arctic sea ice cover currently is the sixth - lowest on modern record, a ranking that raises ongoing concerns about the speed of ice melt and the effects of ice loss on global weather patterns, geopolitical fights, indigenous peoples and wildlife, scientists said yesterday.

Later records show those conditions shifted in 2013 - 2014 to favor less melting, but the damage was already done — the ice sheet had become more sensitive.

This summer's record melt suggests the Arctic may lose its ice cap seasonally sooner than expected.

To get these findings, a NASA - funded team led by Laurence Smith, chair of the geography department at UCLA, spent six days on the ice during July 2012 — directly after a record - setting ice sheet melt.

«The big tell here is that the ice is vanishing — it's melting faster each time we measure,» said Levy, who noted that there are no signs in the geologic record that the valley's ground ice has retreated similarly in the past.

But, as scientists including National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator Jane Lubchenco said today at a press conference at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting, record - setting melting happened anyway: record snow melt, record sea ice minimum, melting even at the top of the Greenland ice sheet (in what was once called the «dry snow zone»), and widespread warming of permafrost.

Once the LGM came to a close, however, the climate began to warm, the sea level rose and ice masses started melting away, allowing the Native American founder population to enter into North America nearly 15,000 years ago, according to the genetic record.

NSIDC will issue a formal announcement at the beginning of October with full analysis of the possible causes behind this year's ice conditions, particularly interesting aspects of the melt season, the set up going into the winter growth season ahead, and graphics comparing this year to the long - term record.

Some analyses have hinted the Arctic's multiyear sea ice, the oldest and thickest ice that survives the summer melt season, appeared to have recuperated partially after the 2012 record low.

During a record melting jag this past summer, the Greenland ice sheet lost 552 billion tons (19 billion tons lower than the previous low), and the volume of sea ice fell to half the volume it had four years ago.

This year's record low sea ice maximum extent might not necessarily lead to a new record low summertime minimum extent, since weather has a great impact on the melt season's outcome, Meier said.

«There are already places in the Andes, for instance, where records of the last 30 to 40 years have disappeared because of surface ice melting,» Rignot says.

But the 14 - year record used in the study is still somewhat short to infer a definitive link between wind - driven upwelling and ice shelf melt, he says.

That helped drive last summer's near - record thaw of Arctic sea ice, second only to the dramatic melt observed in 2007.

TIPPING POINT A new record of the Antarctic ice sheet's formation suggests that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could soon reach a tipping point that will make the ice sheet more vulnerable to melting.

Complementary analyses of the surface mass balance of Greenland (Tedesco et al, 2011) also show that 2010 was a record year for melt area extent... Extrapolating these melt rates forward to 2050, «the cumulative loss could raise sea level by 15 cm by 2050 ″ for a total of 32 cm (adding in 8 cm from glacial ice caps and 9 cm from thermal expansion)- a number very close to the best estimate of Vermeer & Rahmstorf (2009), derived by linking the observed rate of sea level rise to the observed warming.

As Arctic sea ice melts, an underwater recording project reveals that the submerged ecology is undergoing change, with humpbacks and killer whales staying north later in the year.

But this year, a big spring meltdown in October and November suddenly reversed that trend and has led to continued record low sea ice levels as the summer melt season progressed.

In previous years, Antarctic sea ice hit record highs, potentially due to changing ocean conditions linked to the melting of land - bound glaciers.

The Nature article comes as climate scientists published what they said today was the «best ever» collection of evidence for global warming, including temperature over land, at sea and in the higher atmosphere, along with records of humidity, sea - level rise, and melting ice.

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The prospect of the Arctic sea - ice melting completely; ice - sheets breaking off Antarctica; record temperatures — I'm a complete numbers geek.

The 2015 melt season will start with a record low maximum ice extent.

In the Antarctic, where the summer season just wrapped up, rapid ice melt led to the lowest sea ice minimum ever recorded for the area.

The lowest extent on record came during the remarkable summer melt season of 2012, fueled in part by summer storms that moved ice into warm waters.

But in July 2012, a combination of soot from fires in Siberia coupled with warm temperatures caused a record - setting 95 percent of the ice sheet to melt over the course of a week.

The record low maximum doesn't necessarily guarantee a record - low summer sea ice minimum, though, as ice melt depends heavily on Arctic weather patterns through the spring and summer months.

«The ice core record ends about 450 years ago, so the modern melt rates in these cores are the highest of the whole record that we can see,» Osterberg said.

Thursday's toasty reading in Nuuk marks the second exceptionally warm temperature recorded in southwest Greenland since April, when the ice melt season began about a month prematurely.

For example, the 2012 record minimum came during the remarkable summer melt season of 2012 and was fueled in part by summer storms that moved ice into warm waters.

Just last year, for example, the UK had its second - coldest March since records began, prompting the Met Office to call a rapid response meeting of experts to get to grips with whether melting Arctic sea - ice could be affecting British weather.

Emerging from a winter that has had staggeringly warm Arctic temperatures, scientists monitoring the vast Greenland ice sheet announced Tuesday that it is experiencing a record - breaking level of melt for so early in the season.

Pushed from center stage by the expected record arctic ice and permafrost melt, tropical rain forest destruction has been elbowing its way back through the smoke and into view.

- a lot of focus was put on sound effects in order to immerse players in the world of Hyrule - the development team worked with Sound Racer, a studio specialized in sound effects - this studio also worked on Xenoblade Chronicles X - they recorded more than 10 000 different sounds for the game - the team used a school bag to simulate the sound of rubbing leather - for the sound of «normal» footsteps, they mixed various kinds of sands - for the sounds of equipment, they had to search for various materials and find ways to use them - they used an actual block of ice to recreate the sound of footsteps on ice - with the ice block, it always ended up melting, or getting cracks when the staff had to walk on it - Link's footsteps were made by a woman - depending on Link's actions and the equipment he's using / wearing, the recorded sounds were separated out individually - the volume is changed as needed to make a particular sound stand out - check out sound effect samples here

Instead of melting ice caps and imperiled polar bears, AHN / VHS» quiet, small works show — which features drawings, prints, video and mixed media — focuses on the daily weather data recorded at Long Island City's artist - run SP Weather Station....»

Though minimal, this presentation compared favourably with Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton's small survey of Pierre Huyghe, where an albino polyfibre penguin nestled upside down on the ceiling, adjacent to Huyghe's A Journey That Wasn't (2005), a Sturm und Drang record of a trip to an island formed from melting Antarctic ice, the form of which the artist tried to translate into a musical score, then performed by full orchestra on an New York ice - rink, occasionally lit by flashes of light.

Drawing from actual recordings of Larsen C — the fourth largest ice shelf in Antarctica, which is rapidly melting — the artists created a haunting, contemplative soundtrack and immersive installation that reminds viewers of the threat of sea level rise and climate change.

When you have the largest Atlantic storm in recorded history that is being feed by unusually warm ocean waters (+5 °F) and is being steered in a very unusual direction by a «3 - sigma» blocking higher over Greenland after the largest Arctic sea ice melt in human history, you might want to consider the «steroid» hypothesis a bit more.

Once thermal expansion is subtracted from the tide gauge record, the remaining rise should better fit the ice melt model, and give an improved overall fit, without the need for a derivative term.

When attempts were made to update the record by redrilling in 1991, it was found that the annual cycle had been wiped out over the top 20 meters of the core by percolation of meltwater from extensive melting of the ice surface since 1976.

Arctic sea ice has been shrinking more rapidly, falling to its lowest volume and second lowest area on record during the 2011 summer melt season.

Currently they are reporting on record ice losses in August, when the rate of decline typically decreases (but this year it kept right on melting as if it was July).

Japanese Naval Records indicate a fleet navigated a completely ice - free Arctic Ocean at the peak of the Medieval Warm Period, so total melting is nothing new, however unlikely at current temperatures.