Sentences with phrase «accelerate sea ice decline»

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The sea ice decline has accelerated since 1996.

Rapid Arctic sea - ice decline: Summer - time melting of Arctic sea - ice has accelerated far beyond the expectations of climate models.

However, the share of thermal expansion in global sea level rise has declined in recent decades as the shrinking of land ice has accelerated (Lombard et al 2005).

In order for the volumetric declines to keep pace with past calculations, the decline in sea ice area must accelerate.

We find a consistent decreasing trend in Arctic Ocean sea ice thickness since 1979, and a steady decline in the Eastern Arctic Ocean over the full 40 - year period of comparison that accelerated after 1980, but the predictions of Western Arctic Ocean sea ice thickness between 1962 and 1980 differ substantially.

Using extent data up to 2010, they do not directly address the claim that the decline of extent in Arctic Sea Ice is linear vs the claim that it is accelerating.

The decline in sea ice is very clearly ongoing, and pretty clearly accelerating over time.

Rapid Arctic sea ice decline: Summertime melting of Arctic sea ice has accelerated far beyond the expectations of climate models.

Arctic sea ice in rapid decline Global sea level rise is accelerating.

This thermal expansion was the main driver of global sea level rise for 75 - 100 years after the start of the Industrial Revolution, though its relative contribution has declined as the shrinking of land ice has accelerated.

The arctic sea ice decline has accelerated to the point that it can truly be described as «alarming.»

Antarctic ice extent setting new records last year, and close to breaking them this year again Extreme weather as measured by ACE on a decline for decades Drought as measured by Palmer Drought Index flat for decades Sea level increases not accelerating and possibly starting to decelerate Signature tropospheric hot spot completely missing Scientists by the bushel coming up with some of the most absurd excuses as to why....

[1] Arctic sea ice has been in decline since at least the 1970s due to climate change, and research shows the thinning is accelerating.

The evidence includes accelerated sea level rise, rising global temperatures, warming oceans, declining Arctic ice sheet, worldwide glaciers retreat, increase of extreme weather events and ocean acidification.

The pattern of accelerating decline in Arctic sea ice has been to create an ever lower U shape in September.

Arctic sea ice volume, area, and extent have been in long - term decline for decades, and this decline has accelerated over the past 5 years.

There was a rapid decline in Arctic sea ice and accelerating loss of net mass from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and from the world's glaciers.

At the start of fall freeze - up, sea ice continues to be thinner and more mobile than prior to 2005, which might cause the decline in extent to persist or accelerate.

And the decline has accelerated, becoming far more dramatic, since about the year 2000, leading to annual average sea ice loss of around three million square kilometers.

Russia is a major source of soot in the Arctic and Russian soot declined dramatically after the break - up of the former Soviet Union — just as sea ice decline was starting to accelerate.

Lukovich and Barber; 4.6 million square kilometers; Heuristic The absence of a distinctive transition in spring of 2009, between cyclonic and anti-cyclonic circulation in the stratosphere (characteristic of years with record lows in sea ice extent), suggests that dynamical contributions will contribute to but not accelerate the decline in sea ice extent in September 2009.

Since 1979, the volume of Summer Arctic sea ice has declined by more than 80 % and accelerating faster than scientists believed it would, or even could melt.

How much it has grown is not stated in the paper: «Observational determination of albedo decrease caused by vanishing Arctic sea ice» http://eisenman.ucsd.edu/publications/Pistone-Eisenman-Ramanathan-2014.pdf but it seems very clear that Arctic sea - ice loss is in accelerating decline towards zero in the coming decades, meaning that this forcing will rise very substantially along with those from land - ice and snow cover decline.

The sea ice decline has accelerated since 1996.

So, scientists do not think that icebreakers play a significant role in accelerating the decline in Arctic sea ice.