Sentences with phrase «accelerates sea ice melt»

This powerful achievement will save thousands of lives a year and slow climate change by reducing pollution that accelerates sea ice melt.

In August, NASA launched ARISE, a program to measure how cloud cover may be accelerating sea ice melt around the pole.

For example, one new study shows that the melt ponds that form on top of sea ice floes in June and July can dramatically accelerate sea ice melt.

Not exact matches

Rising temperatures will warm the oceans and accelerate melting of land ice, affecting sea - levels along the California coast.

«Such warming could cause accelerated melting of glacial ice and a consequent increase in the sea level of several feet over the next century,» she told a meeting of the UK's Royal Society.

Melting sea ice has accelerated warming in the Arctic, which in recent decades has warmed twice as quickly as the global average, according to a new study.

As the melting of the Arctic sea ice accelerates, countries with claims on Arctic Circle territory — including not just Russia and Canada but also the United States, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and Finland — are scrambling to send mapping expeditions to the icy North.

Ballantyne's next challenge is to sleuth out the mechanisms that accelerated Pliocene sea ice melting.

At the other end of the world, the recent satellite data show that the rate of melting of Arctic sea ice has accelerated from 2.5 per cent per decade, as shown by the Nimbus data, to 4.3 per cent per decade.

A possible cause for the accelerated Arctic warming is the melting of the region's sea ice, which reduces the icy, bright area that can reflect sunlight back out into space, resulting in more solar radiation being absorbed by the dark Arctic waters.

The degradation of the historically stable Filchner - Ronne Ice Shelf would upset ice on land, triggering runaway melting over a vast region of the continent and accelerating global sea level riIce Shelf would upset ice on land, triggering runaway melting over a vast region of the continent and accelerating global sea level riice on land, triggering runaway melting over a vast region of the continent and accelerating global sea level rise.

Since so much of the ice sheet is grounded underwater, rising sea levels may have the effect of lifting the sheets, allowing more - and increasingly warmer - water underneath it, leading to further bottom melting, more ice shelf disintegration, accelerated glacial flow, and further sea level rise, and so on and on, another vicious cycle.

The melting of the Greenland ice sheet trigger accelerated sea level rise, a die back of the Amazon rainforest removes a crucial atmospheric carbon sink, and an alteration of the ocean conveyor belt shuts down the Atlantic Gulf stream.

The accelerating melting of land ice into the sea makes the surface of the ocean around Antarctica colder, less salty and more easily frozen, leading to extensive sea ice in some areas.

A team of researchers has learned that the powerful 1997 - 98 El Niño event dramatically accelerated the melting of the ice shelves buttressing glaciers in West Antarctica's Amundsen sea sector.

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

And the more that sea ice melts, the more energy is absorbed — a positive feedback mechanism of accelerating warming and ice loss, he said.

«The warming effect could be through the direct heating to the air, snow and sea ice by absorbing sunlight, and then accelerating the melting of snow and sea ice,» Wang said.

The accelerated loss of sea ice should come as no surprise given that another study presented at the AGU meeting found accelerated Arctic warming (see NSIDC: Arctic melt passes the point of no return, «We hate to say we told you so, but we did»):

Multi-panel paintings in oil and smaller paintings on canvas and aluminum formats explore the tundra fragmented into puddles and bits of ice with small cascades flowing over the rocks, reminders of accelerated seasonal changes melting ice fields and sea ice.

When the Arctic sea ice goes the increase in water vapour in the Arctic region will accelerate the Greenland melt.

This means that if the climatic conditions remain unaltered, then the melt of the Greenland ice will accelerate and sea level will rise by 5 metres.

These wildfires release soot into the atmosphere, which accelerates the rate of melting of glaciers, snow and ice it lands upon, which can lead to less reflectivity, meaning more of the sun's heat is absorbed, leading to more global warming, which leads to even more wildfires, not to mention greater sea level rise, which is already threatening coastal areas around the world.

Surface winds can impact the sea ice both through accelerated freezing or melting (via heat transfer from the atmosphere to and from the surface) and by blowing the ice from one place to another.

«The rate of global sea level rise is accelerating as ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland melt, an analysis of the first 25 years of satellite data confirms.»

If continental ice melting (Greenland, Antarctic, terrestrial glaciers) is accelerating and if warming of the 0 - 700 m (and deeper) oceanic layer is still on, you shoud observe a higher rate of sea - level rise.

The melt of the Greenland glaciers is accelerating at an incredible rate and it can't be long before the Arctic sea ice disappears altering global albedo irrevocably.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

If satellites show that Greenland ice melt has accelerated so much the last few years, why do satellites also show that sea level is going down since 2005?

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

«The fact that West Antarctic ice - melt is still accelerating is a big deal because it's increasing its contribution to sea - level rise,» explained first author Christopher Harig.

Black carbon disrupts the South Asian monsoon (by altering the land - sea temperature gradient that drives the movement of moist air), helps melt the Greenland ice sheet (by increasing the solar energy the darkened ice absorbs), and accelerates the retreat of Himalayan glaciers.

The northern melting will likely add to sea level rise explains lead author, Shfaqat Abbas Khan: «If this activity in northwest Greenland continues and really accelerates some of the major glaciers in the area — like the Humboldt Glacier and the Peterman Glacier — Greenland's total ice loss could easily be increased by an additional 50 to 100 cubic kilometers (12 to 24 cubic miles) within a few years.»

Generally yes, but there has been a lot of new information learned since the IPCC Third Assessment Report (e.g., on trends in hurricane intensity, the accelerated melting back of Arctic sea ice, the intensifying deterioration of the edges of the Greenland Ice Sheet, etc.) and Gore's presentation of the science has been updated to account for these, drawing from what are the really highly reviewed and high quality papers by leading scientisice, the intensifying deterioration of the edges of the Greenland Ice Sheet, etc.) and Gore's presentation of the science has been updated to account for these, drawing from what are the really highly reviewed and high quality papers by leading scientisIce Sheet, etc.) and Gore's presentation of the science has been updated to account for these, drawing from what are the really highly reviewed and high quality papers by leading scientists.

In addition to direct MYI melt due to high - latitude warming, the impact of enhanced upper - ocean solar heating through numerous leads in decaying Arctic ice cover and consequent ice bottom melting has resulted in an accelerated rate of sea - ice retreat via a positive ice - albedo feedback mechanism.

Stable rates of sea - level rise, sustained in the next 20 years, would mean melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice - caps has not yet accelerated significantly.

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

Since current ice melt data could indicate variable climate trends and aren't necessarily part of an accelerating trend, the study warned that predictions of future sea - level rise should not be based on measurements of glacial loss» Daily Mail.

CO2 is said to be responsible for global warming that is not occurring, for accelerated sea level rise that is not occurring, for net glacial and sea ice melt that is not occurring, for ocean acidification that is not occurring, and for increasing extreme weather that is not occurring.»

■ Carbon dioxide has not caused weather to become more extreme, polar ice and sea ice to melt, or sea level rise to accelerate.

The practice of attributing an accelerating sea level rise to Antarctic ice melt caused by increased CO2 has long been disturbing.

Satellite tracking has shown that the Pine Island Glacier, one of Antarctica's largest ice streams, is accelerating and thus contributing a growing share of the melt water raising sea levels worldwide.

Arctic warming alters weather patterns far from the region and also accelerates sea level rise globally with the melting of the massive Greenland ice sheet.

Alarmingly, recent accelerated melting on the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets — which together contain enough ice to raise global sea level by 39 feet — means that seas could rise even faster than predicted.

When we assemble the broadest range of evidence within our current abilities, we see that any accelerating sea - ice melting trend in the Arctic really is a continuation (or even a deceleration) of the same trend that started at least 150 years ago, BEFORE increased human CO2 production.

Recent research has shown these gatherings of melted ice can serve as a good predictor of the seasonal low - points as they reduce the ability of the sea ice to reflect solar radiation, which has the effect of accelerating overall shrinkage.

If your model of modern civilisation is the Titanic, during and after its encounter with the fateful iceberg 100 years ago, then any apparent good news (Himalayan ice not melting, sea level rise not accelerating, mild winters not continuing, etc.) is not going to be considered very helpful.

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Furthermore, while the melting of floating sea ice does not directly affect sea level, the extra heat in the region is accelerating the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, a massive body of ice 3 kilometers thick.

Higher methane concentrations in the atmosphere will accelerate global warming and hasten local changes in the Arctic, speeding up sea - ice retreat, reducing the reflection of solar energy and accelerating the melting of the Greenland ice sheet.