Sentences with phrase «arctic ice in that region»

Since the northern Atlantic Ocean is one of the main areas that the AMO is active (meaning that area of the ocean is what warms up) it is hardly surprising that arctic ice in that region is impacted.

Not exact matches

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, Colorado.

In this new regime, with a complete absence of sea ice and snow in the Northern Hemisphere, with rapid warming of the arctic region due to increased solar absorption, a jump in regional temps will occuIn this new regime, with a complete absence of sea ice and snow in the Northern Hemisphere, with rapid warming of the arctic region due to increased solar absorption, a jump in regional temps will occuin the Northern Hemisphere, with rapid warming of the arctic region due to increased solar absorption, a jump in regional temps will occuin regional temps will occur.

If some suitably huge area of the arctic is totally free of ice this summer, could it then be claimed with confidence that this was the first time such a large region was free of ice in «x» years, where x is some largeish number like 50,000 or 100,000?

Ice - albedo feedback, he added, could give considerably greater warming in arctic regions.

But in polar regions [within arctic circle] one is still going to have 6 months per year of darkness and therefore will still have freezing weather, though polar ice may not form during the winter.

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.

T, his was sho \ vn not only by the rise of temperature at land stations, but also by the clccrease in the amount of ice in arctic and probably also in antarctic regions and by the rise of sea temperatures.

A long - lived paradigm in polar oceanography is that arctic pelagic ecosystems, characterized by short food webs, remain in a dormant state throughout most of the winter season beneath the sea - ice cover, which can last 8 — 10 months in some regions.

I'm sure there must be a clear signature of this scenario from Eamian in which the arctic regions were 5 degrees C warmer than at present, all the arctic sea ice was melted and the Greenland ice cap somewhat reduced.

Below are examples of photos show the strongest and most obvious result of global warming; retreating glaciers, melting ice and shrinking snow cover occurring in the arctic region of the world.

In arctic regions, the acceleration of permafrost thaw and deepening of the seasonal active layer leads to thaw pond formations due to the organic and ice - rich ground subsiding [1]--[2].

Satellite data and ground observations also indicate that ice conditions in the Nares Strait west of Greenland may favor an influx of old high arctic ice into the region later in the season.

Does less arctic sea ice results in enhanced cooling to space in this region?

The constant flow of relatively warmer surface water that started in the mid 60s from the equitorial atlantic produced a net increase in arctic ice melt, thus a colder southward current in the E Atlantic, giving the wrong impression of generalised cooling in the region.

Much like your arguement above about trends in arctic ice since 2003, how much traction would I get suggesting that surface temperature trends in some region the size of the arctic showed a negative trend?

Statistics Canada — Average area covered by total (all) sea ice during summer from 1968 to 2010 for sea ice regions of Arctic Domain — EnviroStats — See how clear the trends are in all of Canada's arctic regions: down, down, down at something like 7 or 8 percent a decade.