He also studies the impact of
changes in sea ice on marine planktonic ecosystems by developing biophysical models such as the coupled Biology - Ice - Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (BIOMAS).
«The observed
changes in sea ice on the Arctic Ocean, in the mass of the Greenland ice sheet and Arctic ice caps and glaciers over the past 10 years are dramatic and represent an obvious departure from long - term patterns,» says the report.
Not exact matches
Researchers have previously suggested that extreme weather
in the midlatitudes might be linked to climate
change's impacts
on the Arctic (SN Online: 12/2/11), particularly the dramatically decreased
sea ice cover
in the Arctic Ocean.
If so, the interaction between hydrofracturing and
ice - cliff collapse could drive global
sea level much higher than projected
in the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate
Change (IPCC)'s 2013 assessment report and
in a 2014 study led by Kopp.
Polar bears, the poster - child for climate
change, are among the animals most affected by the seasonal and year - to - year
changes in Arctic
sea ice, because they rely
on this surface for essential activities such as hunting, traveling and breeding.
Changes in flow patterns of warm Pacific Ocean air from the south were driving earlier spring snowmelt, while decreasing summer
sea ice had the greatest influence
on later onset of snowpack
in the fall.
But the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate
Change — the evidence of 600 climate researchers
in 32 countries reporting
changes to Earth's atmosphere,
ice and
seas —
in 2013 stated «human influence
on the climate system is clear.»
In turn, sharing scientific and indigenous predictive capabilities is meant to improve coastal ice interpretation and prediction based on satellite imagery, assist communities refining public safety measures, and to add local sea ice to parameters used in assessing global climate change in the Arcti
In turn, sharing scientific and indigenous predictive capabilities is meant to improve coastal
ice interpretation and prediction based
on satellite imagery, assist communities refining public safety measures, and to add local
sea ice to parameters used
in assessing global climate change in the Arcti
in assessing global climate
change in the Arcti
in the Arctic.
On average, Antarctic
sea ice may be considerably thicker than once thought, which could significantly
change how scientists assess
sea ice dynamics and their interactions with the ocean
in a warming world.
To better understand and anticipate
changes in sea level rise, scientists have sought to quantify how much snow falls
on the
ice sheet
in any given year, and where, since snow is the primary source of the
ice sheet's mass.
The conclusion that limiting CO2 below 450 ppm will prevent warming beyond two degrees C is based
on a conservative definition of climate sensitivity that considers only the so - called fast feedbacks
in the climate system, such as
changes in clouds, water vapor and melting
sea ice.
«Polar regions have been
changing very rapidly, providing data for our projections
on sea ice, snow cover,
ice sheets and
sea level rise,» says David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey
in Cambridge, UK, the lead author of the cryosphere chapter.
The Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate
Change projected
in 2001 that the
sea level will rise by no more than three feet
in this century — but that projection assumes the major
ice sheets will remain intact.
Furthermore, unraveling the causes of
sea ice retreat should help us understand the mechanisms behind climate
change on a global level, which is interrelated to the
ice reduction
in the Arctic ocean.»
In response, the U.S. Geological Survey began a study
on changing Arctic ecosystems to better understand the consequences of lost permafrost and
sea ice habitats, and the Interior Department established a Climate Science Center at the University of Alaska to specifically address Arctic issues.
«Eavesdropping
on Bering Strait marine mammals: Researchers are eavesdropping
on marine mammals within the Bering Strait via «passive acoustic monitoring» to observe
changes in the ecology of the Pacific Arctic by documenting the use of this region by species previously excluded by
sea ice.»
The East Antarctic
ice sheet has long been considered relatively stable because most of the
ice sheet was thought to rest
on bedrock above
sea level, making it less susceptible to
changes in climate.
In the tug of war, aerosols don't necessarily counter the impacts of climate
change on sea ice (or the planet as a whole for that matter).
«Because these plants are photosynthetic, it's not surprising to find that as the amount of
sea ice cover declined, the amount of [photosynthesis] increased,» says biological oceanographer Kevin Arrigo of Stanford University's School of Earth Sciences, who led an effort to use the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) devices
on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites to determine
changes in phytoplankton growth.
Current estimates of
sea - level rise by the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate
Change consider only the effect of melting
ice sheets, thermal expansion and anthropogenic intervention
in water storage
on land.
«Based
on the UN climate panel's report
on sea level rise, supplemented with an expert elicitation about the melting of the
ice sheets, for example, how fast the
ice on Greenland and Antarctica will melt while considering the regional
changes in the gravitational field and land uplift, we have calculated how much the
sea will rise
in Northern Europe,» explains Aslak Grinsted.
ESA's original mission to measure
changes in ice sheets and
sea ice in Earth's polar regions failed
on October 8, 2005, when a software problem caused the commercial launch rocket to fail.
A working group known as PALSEA2 (Paleo constraints
on sea level rise) used past records of local
change in sea level and converted them to a global mean
sea level by predicting how the surface of the Earth deforms due to
changes in ice - ocean loading of the crust, along with
changes in gravitational attraction
on the ocean surface.
Climate
change models predict that the Arctic
sea ice will continue to shrink
in a warming world (as much as 40 % of the
ice is expected to be gone by midcentury), and the resulting
changes — including later formation of
ice in the autumn, rain falling
on the snow, and decreasing snow depths — will make it increasingly difficult for the seals to construct their snow caves, NOAA says.
During the later period, when there was less
sea ice, the whales dove significantly longer and deeper than
in the earlier period — presumably
in search of prey as the animals,
in turn,
changed their habits because of different ocean conditions brought
on by
sea ice loss.
Eric Post, a Penn State University professor of biology, and Jeffrey Kerby, a Penn State graduate student, have linked the melting of Arctic
sea ice with
changes in the timing of plant growth
on land, which
in turn is associated with lower production of calves by caribou
in the area.
From an altitude of just over 700 km, CryoSat will precisely monitor
changes in the thickness of
sea ice and variations
in the thickness of the
ice sheets
on land.
Almost all glaciers
on the western side end
in the
sea, and we've been able to monitor
changes in their
ice fronts using images as far back as the 1940s.
We emphasize that because of the significant influence of
sea ice on the climate system, it seems that high priority should be given to developing ways for reconstructing high - resolution (
in space and time)
sea -
ice extent for past climate -
change events.
Arctic
sea ice in transformation: a review of recent observed
changes and impacts
on biology and human activity.
This
sea level rise estimate is larger than that provided by the last IPCC report, but highlights the need for further research
on ice sheet variablity and
ice sheet response to climate
change, both now and
in the past.
Something that goes along with this
change in atmospheric circulation is reduced
sea ice in the region (while
sea ice in Antarctica has been increasing
on average, there have been significant declines off the West Antarctic coast for the last 25 years, and probably longer).
I guess I am surprised that with better understanding of the importance of water vapor feedback, sulfate aerosols, black carbon aerosols, more rapid than expected declines
in sea ice and attendant decreases
in albedo, effects of the deposition of soot and dust
on snow and
ice decreasing albedo, and a recognition of the importance of GHGs that were probably not considered 30 years ago, that the sensitivity has
changed so little over time.
Computational models that simulate the climate such as CAM5, which is the atmosphere component of the Community Earth System Model used
in the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate
Change 5th Assessment, are used to predict future climate
changes, such as the Arctic
sea ice loss.
Anthony, R., Aster, R., Rowe, C., Wiens, D., Effects of seasonal and secular
changes in Antarctic
sea ice on microseismic noise, Eos Trans.
In its latest assessment report, the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate
Change (IPCC) concluded that there wasn't sufficient evidence available to put an exact number
on how much the collapse of marine - based
ice sheets could add to
sea levels by 2100.
Changes in the Antarctic
Ice Sheet have a big influence
on global climate and
sea level.
This effort is going
on, with major projects such as the EU funded
Ice2
sea project, which has brought together researchers across disciplines, from across Europe,
in order to address the challenges faced
in predicting the contribution of
ice sheets to future
sea level
change.
Previously, Kelly was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate at the University of Washington and the University of Victoria
in British Columbia, Canada where she studied the role of the
changing Arctic
sea ice cover
on global circulation, weather, and climate using a hierarchy of numerical global climate models.
Consequences of
change and variability
in sea ice on marine ecosystem and biogeochemical processes during the 2007 — 2008 Canadian International Polar Year program.
Our new study, published today
in the journal Earth's Future, finds that — at least from measurements of global
sea level and continental - scale Antarctic
ice - sheet
changes — scientists won't be able to tell which road the planet is
on until the 2060s.
While it is often occurring
in remote regions, ongoing
change with the cryosphere has impacts
on people all around the world:
sea level rise affects coastlines globally, billions of people rely
on water from snowpack, and the diminishing
sea ice that covers the Arctic Ocean plays a significant role
in Earth's climate and weather patterns.
Writing
in Nature Climate
Change, two scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) say the melting of quite a small volume of
ice on the East Antarctic shore could ultimately trigger a discharge of
ice into the ocean which would result
in unstoppable
sea - level rise for thousands of years ahead.
That estimate was based
in part
on the fact that
sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid
change of
ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].
The paleoclimate record and
changes underway
in the Arctic and
on the Greenland and Antarctic
ice sheets with only today's warming imply that
sea level rise of several meters could be expected.
This could be do to
changes in ocean circulation, and warming waters reaching the grounding lines for
ice shelves
in Arctic and Antarctica, leading to non-linear increase
in melting and
sea level rise, impossible to avoid
on our current path.
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Multi-panel paintings
in oil and smaller paintings
on canvas and aluminum formats explore the tundra fragmented into puddles and bits of
ice with small cascades flowing over the rocks, reminders of accelerated seasonal
changes melting
ice fields and
sea ice.
Sea levels are effected by movement of land masses both upward and downward,
changes in gravitational pulls
on the water due to
changes in ice masses.
We emphasize that because of the significant influence of
sea ice on the climate system, it seems that high priority should be given to developing ways for reconstructing high - resolution (
in space and time)
sea -
ice extent for past climate -
change events.