Sentences with phrase «while ice extent»

While ice extent may indeed be «out of our control», (as if it was ever in our control) the issue for humans is not controlling the weather, but controlling our vulnerability to it.

This increase was dominated by higher than normal ice extent in the Bering Sea, while ice extent remained below normal elsewhere.

While ice extent is entertaining, the mass of ice would be more appropriate for energy transfer calculations.

Not exact matches

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).

And while some events, like the U.S. winter storms and the record high Antarctic sea ice extent, could be pinned to a particular cause, that cause could not be linked to climate change.

According to the most recent Arctic Report Card, winter has been losing sea ice at a rate of 2.6 percent per decade, while the summer extent has decreased at an even greater rate of 13.3 percent per decade.

Since that time, winter sea ice extent has dropped 3.2 percent per decade, while the summer minimum has seen an even steeper drop of 13.7 percent per decade.

While extent is a traditional measure of sea ice, volume is also important.

Here's my uneducated question — while I respect Gavin's comments about not abusing the science, it seems to me that many measurable indicators of climate change are (to the extent I can tell) occurring / progressing / worsening faster than predicted by most models, whether we're talking about atmospheric CO2 levels, arctic ice melting, glacial retreat, etc..

Although the sea ice extent has held up since 2007, the thickness has declined; but the extent can not continue to hold up indefinitely while the thickness continues to decline.

Let's say we establish a trend of gradually decreasing Arctic ice while Antarctic ice extent essentially remains the same.

Let's talk about the Antarctic sea ice extent, Andy, while there is still some ice left to talk about, shall we.

Zhang and Lindsay, 4.4 + / -0.5, Modeling The predicted ice edge in the western Arctic in 2012 is close to that observed in 2011, while the predicted ice extent in the eastern Arctic is smaller than in 2011 (Fig. 2).

Canadian Ice Service, 3.8, Heuristic Arctic Ocean September sea ice extents (while expected to be well below the 1979 ‐ 2013 average of 6.4 million square kilometres, and while expected to continue to be near or below 4.0 million square kilometres) are therefore expected to experience a slight recovery, preventing a repeat of last year's recoIce Service, 3.8, Heuristic Arctic Ocean September sea ice extents (while expected to be well below the 1979 ‐ 2013 average of 6.4 million square kilometres, and while expected to continue to be near or below 4.0 million square kilometres) are therefore expected to experience a slight recovery, preventing a repeat of last year's recoice extents (while expected to be well below the 1979 ‐ 2013 average of 6.4 million square kilometres, and while expected to continue to be near or below 4.0 million square kilometres) are therefore expected to experience a slight recovery, preventing a repeat of last year's record.

NSIDC 5 day averaged Arctic sea ice extent has been at a record low level for the date for quite a while:

A good point as arctic regions that are hit with warmer water streams will prevent sea ice extent while those with colder ones can massivly increase in volume when the air is cold enough though no growth would be visible from the top down view.

While the Barents and Kara seas normally have close to 2 million square kilometers (772,000 square miles) of ice in February, recent years have seen 500,000 square kilometers (193,000 square miles) of ice extent or lower.

4.5 Transition: After temperatures peak, surface temperatures begin to decrease, while AMO continues to warm and sea - ice extent continues to wane.

While Greenland was setting records linked to melting, another was being set around the chilly mass of Antarctica, which saw a new highest daily sea ice extent.

i.e -(if you have 1 Km ^ 2 of sea filled 15 %, ice - extent counts it as 1Km ^ 2 while area counts it as 15 % of 1Km ^ 2 or 0.15 Km ^ 2)

The green line is Antarctic Ice Extent which has been rising all the while Arctic Ice is falling.

He further observed that while the mean annual reduction of the April ice extent has been decelerating by a factor of 3 between 1880 and 1980, the mean annual reduction of the minimum (August) ice extent is proceeding linearly.

``... examination of records of fast ice thickness and ice extent from four Arctic marginal seas (Kara, Laptev, East Siberian, and Chukchi) indicates that long - term trends are small and generally statistically insignificant, while trends for shorter records are not indicative of the long - term tendencies due to strong low - frequency variability in these time series, which places a strong limitation on our ability to resolve long - term trends....

While the winter / spring 2008 sea - ice extent has rebounded from the 2007 negative mega-anomaly, the age - class distribution at present is negatively skewed compared to satellite climatology and even the values for 2007, as is ice concentration within the ice - ocean margin that defines extent.

While the overall sea ice extent in the Southern Ocean has not changed markedly in recent decades, there have been increases in oceanic temperatures and large regional decreases in winter sea ice extent and duration in the western Antarctic Peninsula region of West Antarctica and the islands of the Scotia Arc.

While sea ice extent at the beginning of July and weather conditions in June and July were largely conducive to a new sea ice extent minimum, weather in August and September was unfavorable.

«That while the weather may be just a little colder in the immediate years to come, the full extent of the new ice age won't be reached for 10,000 years.

While total extent and the general distribution of the ice cover is similar to last year, the atmospheric patterns are quite different.

Cross-validation skill, measured by the correlation between two - month lead predictions and observations of September ice extent, is 0.82, while the RMS error of predictions is 0.72 million square km.

Had he wished to be objective, he would have pointed out that, while satellite observations do indeed confirm that the extent of arctic sea ice has been declining over the past 30 years, the same satellite observations show that, overall, Antarctic sea ice has been expanding over the same period.

While the projected 2013 extent remains below the 1979 - 2007 observed average, the model predicts that September Arctic sea - ice extent will recover to a value comparable to that reached in 2006.

While the ensemble forecast indicates an absence of significant atmospheric circulation anomalies over the western Arctic, high pressure features over the Barents sea appear to be conducive to greater ice extent reductions along the Eurasian side.

The bright white central mass shows the perennial sea ice, which is just the multi-year ice that has survived at least one summer, while the larger light blue area shows the full extent of the winter sea ice including the average annual sea ice during the 2012 months of November, December and January.

While the initial ice cover is remarkably low in the Barents and Kara seas, the forecast suggests limited reductions in ice extent on the Pacific side of the Arctic as compared with recent years.

While we are asking for expected values of the ice extent for September, most researchers recognize that any quantitative outlook should ideally include a probabilistic approach.

While all the press is about the observed declines in Arctic sea ice extent in recent decades, little attention at all is paid to the fact that the sea ice extent in the Antarctic has been on the increase.

This is such an utter non-story — amounting to no more than «NSIDC have another year's worth of winter Arctic ice data» — that the only reason we can see for the BBC giving it the time of day is to guard against the possibility that people start filling their pretty heads with silly notions that the extent of summer Arctic sea ice varies from year to year, and that while it seems to have been reducing a bit over the last few decades, it hardly follows that it spells the end of the world as we know it.

While this is a welcome pause in the downward trend of sea ice extent, some are taking it a step further and hailing this rebound as evidence that the Arctic is no longer warming.

NOAA also says that Arctic sea ice was «below normal for the 11th consecutive April» while «based on NOAA satellite observations, snow cover extent was the fourth - lowest on record» since... Read more

While this is a welcome pause in the downward trend of sea ice extent, some are...

Other parts of the world suffered severe flooding, extreme heatwaves and droughts in 2008, while Arctic sea ice was once more observed to decline markedly, reaching during September its second - lowest historic extent.

The summer arctic sea ice extent, in contrast, has been significantly under predicted by the models, while the summer Antarctic sea ice extent increase has been missed by the models.

There are, for exazmple, several articles claiming that CAGW causes Arcitc sea ice extent to decrease, while at the same time, causes Antractic sea ice extent to increase.

It doesn't matter, since minimum Arctic sea ice extents DO N'T occur while the sun is above the horizon.

Examination of records of fast ice thickness (1936 — 2000) and ice extent (1900 — 2000) in the Kara, Laptev, East Siberian, and Chukchi Seas provide evidence that long - term ice thickness and extent trends are small and generally not statistically significant, while trends for shorter records are not indicative of the long - term tendencies due to large - amplitude low - frequency variability.

They are plotting an Ice - free summer not September while using Area not Extent.

While it is fun to write «bat - out - of - hell,» there is some spread for the sea ice extent on Oct 28 in the last ten years.

But that new, thin, salty ice will also melt all that much more easily, so I would think that, when it comes to measuring minimums, we could continue to see precipitous drops for the next few years, even as extent and area continue to recover fairly well for the maximums for a while.

While you are gathering ad hom ammunition for your assault on Salby, spare some time to consider the paper about the past sea ice extent in the Arctic.

While passive microwave data products may not show as much detail or be as accurate «on the ground» as other satellite data, they provide a consistent time series to track sea ice extent going back to 1979.