Sentences with phrase «arctic pack ice»
Amid the thick, omnipresent arctic pack ice, the only predator they encounter — aside from humans — is the killer whale.
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Habitat is being disturbed and polluted by offshore oil development in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas, and as CO2 warms our planet, the arctic ice pack is rapidly melting; the whales are in danger from noise, oil spills and deadly collisions with ships, while global warming is steadily melting their icy abode and reducing available food.
Many commentators are proclaiming, more in sorrow than in anger, that the melting of arctic pack - ice (which was high again this year) is a certain indicator of global warming.
Added to the backscatter images, the ice displacement vectors allow us to estimate the drift of the whole arctic pack.
However, the arctic ice pack remains substantially younger, thinner, and more mobile than prior to 2005.
An arctic ice pack that consists mostly of first - and second - year rather than multi-year sea ice, implies a thinner, more mobile ice cover relative to conditions five or more years ago.
And not all model forecasts are leaning to the alarmism for instance the diminution of the arctic ice pack has been much quicker than forecast
To summarise the arguments presented so far concerning ice - loss in the arctic basin, at least four mechanisms must be recognised: (i) a momentum - induced slowing of winter ice formation, (ii) upward heat - flux from anomalously warm Atlantic water through the surface low ‐ salinity layer below the ice, (iii) wind patterns that cause the export of anomalous amounts of drift ice through the Fram Straits and disperse pack - ice in the western basin and (iv) the anomalous flux of warm Bering Sea water into the eastern Arctic of the mid 1990s.
It is currently shown to be in very low ice concentration in a large embayment formed in the central arctic ice pack.