Sentences with phrase «snow ice data»

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Topher The depth of snow on top of the WWII planes can not be correlated with ice core data.

This fall, a Ph.D. student at UC Irvine tweeted a graph of data collected by the National Snow and Ice Data Center that sparked a firestorm of debdata collected by the National Snow and Ice Data Center that sparked a firestorm of debData Center that sparked a firestorm of debate.

«The study gives us a really good handle on how to approximate how much ice Greenland is going to lose in the coming century,» says Ted Scambos of the US National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Coloraice Greenland is going to lose in the coming century,» says Ted Scambos of the US National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, ColoraIce Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.

In an analysis, the National Snow and Ice Data Center said the sea ice extent as of Sept. 16 was 2 million square miles, an amount just below revised estimates for 2009, the former sixth place finisher, said Julienen Stroeve, a scientist at the centIce Data Center said the sea ice extent as of Sept. 16 was 2 million square miles, an amount just below revised estimates for 2009, the former sixth place finisher, said Julienen Stroeve, a scientist at the centice extent as of Sept. 16 was 2 million square miles, an amount just below revised estimates for 2009, the former sixth place finisher, said Julienen Stroeve, a scientist at the center.

«In the last stages, it was like a stack of dominoes,» says Ted Scambos, a glaciologist at the University of Colorado's National Snow and Ice Data Center.

Security group calls U.S. unprepared for Arctic changes The analysis from the National Snow and Ice Data Center comes on the heels of several scientific and policy papers in the past week warning about the consequences of Arctic ice loIce Data Center comes on the heels of several scientific and policy papers in the past week warning about the consequences of Arctic ice loice loss.

Julienne Stroeve of the National Snow and Ice Data Center said the new study reaches the same basic conclusion she and her colleagues did in work published in 2007, although it relies on a new data Data Center said the new study reaches the same basic conclusion she and her colleagues did in work published in 2007, although it relies on a new data data set.

The Antarctic Peninsula holds only a small fraction of the continent's ice, but it is «a natural laboratory,» says Theodore Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. «It's the trailer for the movie that's going to unfold over the rest of Antarctica for the next 50 to 100 years.&raqice, but it is «a natural laboratory,» says Theodore Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. «It's the trailer for the movie that's going to unfold over the rest of Antarctica for the next 50 to 100 years.&raqIce Data Center in Boulder, Colo. «It's the trailer for the movie that's going to unfold over the rest of Antarctica for the next 50 to 100 years.»

Climatologists and glaciologists like Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center are alarmed.

Winter sea ice has been at record lows for the past three years, according to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Centice has been at record lows for the past three years, according to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data CentIce Data Center.

«They suggest that even if the ice declined a large amount in one year, it should bounce back,» says Walt Meier of the US National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Coloraice declined a large amount in one year, it should bounce back,» says Walt Meier of the US National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, ColoraIce Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.

Rasmussen has analysed meteorological data from the time of the accident and he estimates that snow was falling on the plane at the rate of 2.5 millimetres per hour — fast enough to coat the plane's wings with enough ice to cause a crash.

While Arrhenius appears to have been wrong about the temperature effect on the Antarctic, scientists today have found strong evidence for what they now call Arctic amplification in the North Pole, said Mark Serreze, the director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

«Polar regions have been changing very rapidly, providing data for our projections on sea ice, snow cover, ice sheets and sea level rise,» says David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK, the lead author of the cryosphere chapter.

Arctic: The average Arctic sea ice extent for August was 2.40 million square miles, 390,000 square miles (13.9 percent) below the 1981 - 2010 average and the seventh smallest August extent since records began in 1979 but the largest since 2009, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Centice extent for August was 2.40 million square miles, 390,000 square miles (13.9 percent) below the 1981 - 2010 average and the seventh smallest August extent since records began in 1979 but the largest since 2009, according to the National Snow and Ice Data CentIce Data Center.

This past September the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., which collects polar and ice information for the government, announced that there was less sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean than at any time since satellite measurements began in 19Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., which collects polar and ice information for the government, announced that there was less sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean than at any time since satellite measurements began in 19ice information for the government, announced that there was less sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean than at any time since satellite measurements began in 19ice covering the Arctic Ocean than at any time since satellite measurements began in 1979.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center reports that Arctic ice shrank by 131,000 square miles between August 17 and 21, leaving ice coverage that is well below the 2005 record low of 2.05 million square milIce Data Center reports that Arctic ice shrank by 131,000 square miles between August 17 and 21, leaving ice coverage that is well below the 2005 record low of 2.05 million square milice shrank by 131,000 square miles between August 17 and 21, leaving ice coverage that is well below the 2005 record low of 2.05 million square milice coverage that is well below the 2005 record low of 2.05 million square miles.

Last summer that coverage shrank to 1.67 million square miles, the second - lowest number on record, according to climatologist Mark Serreze of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.

The findings back up a body of data suggesting that «the effects of global [warming] will be seen first, and will be most pronounced, in the arctic region,» says Mark Serreze, an arctic climatologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colordata suggesting that «the effects of global [warming] will be seen first, and will be most pronounced, in the arctic region,» says Mark Serreze, an arctic climatologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, ColorData Center in Boulder, Colorado.

The researchers studied water samples taken during cruises by Chinese ice breaker XueLong, (meaning «snow dragon») in summer 2008 and 2010 from the upper ocean of the Arctic's marginal seas to the basins as far north as 88 degrees latitude, just below the North Pole, as well as data from three other cruises.

An image of an area of the Arctic sea ice pack well north of Alaska, captured by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite on Sept. 13, 2013, the day before the National Snow and Ice Data Center estimated Arctic sea ice to have reached its minimum extent for the yeice pack well north of Alaska, captured by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite on Sept. 13, 2013, the day before the National Snow and Ice Data Center estimated Arctic sea ice to have reached its minimum extent for the yeIce Data Center estimated Arctic sea ice to have reached its minimum extent for the yeice to have reached its minimum extent for the year.

«Last year was a «perfect storm» of conditions leading to the extreme low anomaly,» says Walt Meier of the US National Snow and Ice Data Center.

Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), University College London, University of New Hampshire and University of Washington analyzed 300 summer Arctic sea ice forecasts from 2008 to 2013 and found that forecasts are quite accurate when sea ice conditions are close to the downward trend that has been observed in Arctic sea ice for the last 30 yeaIce Data Center (NSIDC), University College London, University of New Hampshire and University of Washington analyzed 300 summer Arctic sea ice forecasts from 2008 to 2013 and found that forecasts are quite accurate when sea ice conditions are close to the downward trend that has been observed in Arctic sea ice for the last 30 yeaice forecasts from 2008 to 2013 and found that forecasts are quite accurate when sea ice conditions are close to the downward trend that has been observed in Arctic sea ice for the last 30 yeaice conditions are close to the downward trend that has been observed in Arctic sea ice for the last 30 yeaice for the last 30 years.

The Arctic's ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent on September 10, 2016, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent on September 10, 2016, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDIce Data Center (NSIDC).

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This year, sea ice in the Arctic reached its smallest maximum extent since satellites began tracking polar ice patterns, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, while scientists have also forecast ice - free Arctic summers in two to three decades (ClimateWire, July 16, 201ice in the Arctic reached its smallest maximum extent since satellites began tracking polar ice patterns, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, while scientists have also forecast ice - free Arctic summers in two to three decades (ClimateWire, July 16, 201ice patterns, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, while scientists have also forecast ice - free Arctic summers in two to three decades (ClimateWire, July 16, 201Ice Data Center, while scientists have also forecast ice - free Arctic summers in two to three decades (ClimateWire, July 16, 201ice - free Arctic summers in two to three decades (ClimateWire, July 16, 2013).

Director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Serreze spoke to DISCOVER about the future of the place he loves.

«Within a few months» of a breakup, explains glaciologist Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the glacier «accelerates significantly, and within a year or two, it can be moving [toward the ocean] up to four times as fast as it moved when the ice shelf was intact.&raqIce Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the glacier «accelerates significantly, and within a year or two, it can be moving [toward the ocean] up to four times as fast as it moved when the ice shelf was intact.&raqice shelf was intact.»

«This may all be playing out within the next few years, rather than decades from now as had been thought,» says Scambos from the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

Invasive species are entering the region with or without shipping, says Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado; warming of the Arctic Ocean's surface temperatures has already increased mixing with foreign waters and all the microbes they contain.

That may seem like a lot of ice, but this year's peak is the second lowest on record, according to the National Snow & Ice Data Centice, but this year's peak is the second lowest on record, according to the National Snow & Ice Data CentIce Data Center.

Moon started back as a researcher at CU Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center, part of CIRES, May 1.

To get more detailed temperature data, the researchers used two relatively new methods of investigation, both of which examine the layer of compressed granular snow that is formed between the top layer of soft and fluffy snow and the layer deeper down in the ice sheet, where the compressed snow has been turned into ice.

«The sea ice cover this year has reached a new record low,» says Mark Serreze, senior research scientist at the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. «It's not just that we beat the old record, we annihilated it.&raqice cover this year has reached a new record low,» says Mark Serreze, senior research scientist at the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. «It's not just that we beat the old record, we annihilated it.&raqIce Data Center in Boulder, Colo. «It's not just that we beat the old record, we annihilated it.»

Antarctic sea ice extent reached a record high this year on 22 September, topping 20 million square kilometers for the first time since 1979, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Centice extent reached a record high this year on 22 September, topping 20 million square kilometers for the first time since 1979, according to the National Snow and Ice Data CentIce Data Center.

«If anyone was waiting to find out whether Antarctica would respond quickly to climate warming, I think the answer is yes,» says the lead author of one of the reports, Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. «We've seen 150 miles of coastline change drastically in just 15 years.»

And they're shrinking, fast, writes Moon, who returned to the National Snow and Ice Data Center this month after two years away.

A: The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announced this week that the sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached its maximum extent — its widest halo around the continent — in 2014 on 22 September: more than 20 million square kilometers, which also set a record for the highest extent of sea ice around the continent since satellite measurements began in the late 197Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announced this week that the sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached its maximum extent — its widest halo around the continent — in 2014 on 22 September: more than 20 million square kilometers, which also set a record for the highest extent of sea ice around the continent since satellite measurements began in the late 197ice surrounding Antarctica reached its maximum extent — its widest halo around the continent — in 2014 on 22 September: more than 20 million square kilometers, which also set a record for the highest extent of sea ice around the continent since satellite measurements began in the late 197ice around the continent since satellite measurements began in the late 1970s.

This year «will without a doubt» rank in the top five lowest levels of ice extent ever recorded in the satellite era, and there is a good possibility that 2013 could rank second in terms of recorded ice lows, said Walt Meier, a scientist at the National Snow & Ice Data Centice extent ever recorded in the satellite era, and there is a good possibility that 2013 could rank second in terms of recorded ice lows, said Walt Meier, a scientist at the National Snow & Ice Data Centice lows, said Walt Meier, a scientist at the National Snow & Ice Data CentIce Data Center.

The addition of Svalbard will allow the mission to collect data on sea ice and snow in a scarcely measured section of the Arctic Ocean and its surrounding seas, along with measurements of a few glaciers in the Svalbard archipelago.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.

«We may even recover for a few more years,» said Ted Scambos, senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado.

The Southern Hemisphere's unrelenting winds and frigid air froze ocean water into 7.6 million square miles (19.7 million square kilometers) of Antarctic sea ice this winter, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDice this winter, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDIce Data Center (NSIDC).

As of 2016, USAP - DC is partnered with the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) to manage glaciology data for the US Antarctic ProgData Center (NSIDC) to manage glaciology data for the US Antarctic Progdata for the US Antarctic Program.

This was the third smallest January extent since records began in 1979, according to analysis by the National Snow and Ice Data Center based on data from NOAA and NData Center based on data from NOAA and Ndata from NOAA and NASA.

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Sea ice extent was 402,000 square miles below average, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Centice extent was 402,000 square miles below average, according to the National Snow and Ice Data CentIce Data Center.

Walt Meier, a world authority on sea ice, based at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre, said: «The paper doesn't measure up scientifically.&raqice, based at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre, said: «The paper doesn't measure up scientifically.&raqIce Data Centre, said: «The paper doesn't measure up scientifically.»

I'll be talking with Mark Serreze from the National Snow and Ice Data Center.