Sentences with phrase «arctic summer»

The range of responses (2.9 to 5.6 million square kilometers) illustrates several of the challenges faced by any forecast of arctic summer ice evolution.
The 2008 arctic summer sea ice extent minimum nearly matched the drastic reduction in minimum extent observed in 2007.
In the abstract for Sensitivity of arctic summer sea ice coverage to global warming forcing: towards reducing uncertainty in arctic climate change projections (February 15, 2010, Wiley InterScience), the IARC's Xiangdong Zhang writes:
Mainstream media ignored the cold arctic summer, the failure of sea ice to reach predicted low levels, and the ice reforming some three week ahead of average.
The most reflective type of ice in the Arctic — multiyear ice that survives arctic summers — has melted with shocking speed over the last few decades as the poles warm even faster than the rest of the planet.
Wang, J., J. Zhang, E. Watanabe, M. Ikeda, K. Mizobata, J.E. Walsh, X. Bai, and B. Wu,» Is the dipole anomaly a major driver to record lows in arctic summer sea ice extent?»
The second movie (2) illustrates the shrinking of arctic summer (September) sea ice, while the third movie (3) shows the variability of winter (March) sea ice.
Is the arctic summer ice cap melting?
Lower Atmosphere is warming, oceans upper layers are warming, arctic summer sea ice is disappearing, WAIS and Greenland are both losing mass annually and the majority of the earths glaciers are losing mass too.
The Sea Ice Outlook provides a forum for researchers to contribute their understanding of the state of arctic sea ice and for the community to jointly assess a range of factors that contribute to arctic summer sea ice minima.
The arctic summer sea ice extent minimum in September 2009 (5.36 million square kilometers) was greater than that observed in 2007 or 2008, but still much less than the 1979 — 2000 mean value (7.1 million square kilometers), based on NSIDC September mean estimates.
Scientifically, the Sea Ice Outlook provides a focus for researchers to evaluate their understanding of the state of arctic sea ice, and for the community to jointly assess a range of factors that contribute to arctic summer sea ice minima.
The Sea Ice Outlook provides a forum for researchers to evaluate their understanding of the state of arctic sea ice and for the community to jointly assess a range of factors that contribute to arctic summer sea ice minima.
The SEARCH Sea Ice Outlook provides a forum for researchers to contribute their understanding of the state of arctic sea ice and for the community to jointly assess a range of factors that contribute to arctic summer sea ice minima.
The arctic summer sea ice extent minimum in September 2008 almost matched the drastic reduction in minimum extent observed in 2007.
For example, in Finnish boreal mires, there was a clear shift in the methanogen community over the arctic summer, with AM (Methanosarcina spp.) found only during early and mid summer [44].
We won't need to wait long for that: The arctic summer ice will be gone in about a decade.
The arctic summer range is also forecast to contract, raising questions about how this migratory bird will adjust to the disruption in both seasons.
If so, is it not reasonable to assume that this effect would occur over the entire year in the tropics, with the angle of the sun's rays far greater than that in the arctic summer?
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