Sentences with phrase «arctic sea ice season»
A request was sent to the contributors of the 2009 SEARCH Sea Ice Outlook to summarize the 2009 arctic sea ice season.
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Research led by Eric Post, a professor of biology at Penn State University, has linked an increasingly earlier plant growing season to the melting of arctic sea ice, a relationship that has consequences for offspring production by caribou in the area.
Re # 49 & # 82 The limitations on the growth of algae in the arctic varies with the season, the effect of sea - ice melting is not as certain as Harold would have us believe: http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2005/2005JC002922.shtml http://www.nurp.noaa.gov/Spotlight/ArcticIce.htm
While the 2010 melt season started with more multi-year ice (MYI) in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas than seen in recent years and an overall greater percentage of MYI arctic - wide, by the end of August nearly all of this MYI had melted out or ice concentration had fallen below 40 %.
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.
And, once the summer season is passed, the ever - colder Arctic air masses remove even more heat from the under - ice water up through the sea ice by conduction into the -25 deg arctic air.