Sentences with phrase «arctic ocean»

New body colours were city - grey and arctic ocean blue.

Permanently protect the fragile arctic oceans in the Barents Sea, as well as areas off of the coast of Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja, from fossil fuel extraction.»

The project will also analyze changes in oceanic circulation and processes in an ice - depleted Arctic Ocean, and in its interactions with the sub arctic oceans.

Nobody knows if global warming will make for rougher or smoother arctic ocean surfaces.

I think what Alastair is alluding to is the fact that, say by 2050 when the arctic ocean will conceivably be ice - free in the summer, the atmosphere will have a much higher relative humidity than it has currently because of the open air = water interface, so this will have a magnifying effect beyond just the feedback from increased CO2.

Note the arctic ocean has no ocean data so land data (generally interpolated) is used.

For quite a number of years, Arctic Outfitters in Fairbanks, AK rented Ford Tauruses to drive the notably difficult James Dalton Highway towards the arctic ocean.

It's a place in the arctic circle in very northern Russia, right next to the arctic ocean.

Seems this might hold for larger scale events, such as the arctic ice melting (i.e., there would be more warming in the arctic ocean in our current times, except some of the «warming» energy is going into the melting process rather than warming).

It sounds very much like a misquoting of yet another Dr James..., «Just the melting of all the floating ice in the arctic ocean, will add as much heat to the earth, as all the Co-2 we put in the atmosphere to date.»

Basically he confirmed my amateur guess: that the arctic winter is invariably long enough and cold enough to freeze essentially all of the surface water of the arctic ocean.

and how about nasa's recent report of the apparent arctic ocean gyre reversal to clockwise that is underway — that the counterclockwise gyre of the arctic ocean rotation (since 1989) which apparently also been largely responsible for centrifigally pushing arctic ice into warmer waters, speeding melting — should now predictably result in increasing amounts of ice due to the centripetal pull of the ice toward the north pole?

The arctic ocean may be millions of square kilometer [1.4 million] but have this effect why isn't 10,000 square kilometer of open ocean not enough to have regional effect.

The arctic ocean used to be 4 to 5 metres thick across the bulk of its area in winter... now you would be hard put to find much over 3 metres.

Methane released from the arctic ocean is almost a time bomb waiting to go off.