Sentences with phrase «between sea ice formations»
A cloud front can be seen in the lower left, and dark areas indicate regions of open water between sea ice formations.
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«In addition, the opening of the Bering Strait between America and Russia and the closure of the Panama Canal in central America at the same time resulted in a huge supply of fresh water to the Arctic, which also led to the formation of more sea ice in the Arctic Ocean,» Jochen Knies adds.
It emphasises that there is a strong internal relationship between the formation, stability and extent of sea ‐ ice and the structure of the upper layer of the Arctic ocean: it is the relative area and depth of low - salinity arctic water above the halocline that are paramount to ice formation and its summer survival.
This analysis indicates that most of the apparent inconsistencies between different models can be reconciled and attributed to differing (and likely insufficient) Antarctic sea ice formation.
Thus, two - thirds of the 180 m sea - level change between the ice - free planet and the LGM occurred with formation of Northern Hemisphere ice (and probably some increased volume of Antarctic ice).