Sentences with phrase «circumpolar regions»

Running from October 24 to 28th, the 8th annual festival program includes a Polar Visions spotlight, with works from and about the Circumpolar regions of the Arctic and the Antarctic, films highlighting issues around water scarcity and privatization, along with community action and international works which expose government and corporate mishaps at the height of the Cold War (Gambit, Broken Arrow).

But considering that they have the potential to develop in permafrost and glaciated - influenced landscapes covering 9.6 millions of km2 in circumpolar regions [23], these small systems certainly deserve more attention.

It will without doubt have come to your Lordship's knowledge that a considerable change of climate inexplicable at present to us must have taken place in the Circumpolar Regions, by which the severity of the cold that has for centuries past inclosed (sic) the seas in the high northern latitudes in an impenetrable barrier of ice has been during the last two years greatly abated.

The Royal Society ``... a considerable change of climate, inexplicable at present to us, must have taken place in the Circumpolar Regions, by which the severity of the cold that has for centuries past enclosed the seas in the high northern latitudes in an impenetrable barrier of ice has been during the last two years, greatly abated....

And for a little historical perspective: «It will without doubt have come to your Lordship's knowledge that a considerable change of climate, inexplicable at present to us, must have taken place in the Circumpolar Regions, by which the severity of the cold that has for centuries past enclosed the seas in the high northern latitudes in an impenetrable barrier of ice has been during the last two years, greatly abated.

Using chemical, biological, optical, and isotopic measurements, researchers from Québec, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden have analyzed hundreds of samples from 14 circumpolar regions spanning from Alaska to Russia (from the subarctic zone to the High Arctic).

And with Arctic ice cover shrinking more than ever this past summer, the Inuit of the northern circumpolar region say their way of life is disappearing.

Currently, Pallas comprises one of the most important research infrastructures in Finland and in the wider circumpolar region, contributing to numerous European and global research programmes, such as GAW, ICOS, ACTRIS and EMEP.

Currently, Pallas comprises one of the most important research infrastructures in Finland and in the wider circumpolar region, contributing to numerous European and global research programmes, such as GAW, ICOS, ACTRIS and EMEP.

In this paper the output from several different runs of a global ocean GCM is used to show that the inflow of upper kilometer water in the South Atlantic and the outflow of deep water varies in direct proportion to the westerly wind stress in the circumpolar region of the southern hemisphere.

Not exact matches

Through its data collection, the study expanded the circumpolar peat carbon pool estimate for permafrost regions by more than 50 percent.

The researchers took measurements of small - scale temperature and velocity fluctuations, to measure the diapycnal movements in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) across the Drake Passage region of the Southern Ocean.

«Soil organic carbon pools in the northern circumpolar permafrost region» (PDF).

There are 337 million hectares of peatlands within the circumpolar boreal region alone, containing 397 to 455 billion tons of carbon.

Vertical diffusion is slower, but happens over most of the oceans, while downward advection of anomalously warm water happens in fewer spots but is faster (the North Atlantic, «Mode» water formation regions north of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, shelf water formation in Antarctica).

As discussed in the following section, the absence of significant warming in the Circumpolar Ocean of the Southern hemisphere is attributable mainly to the large thermal inertia of the ocean, which results from very effective mixing between the surface layer and the deeper layers of ocean in this region.

The clues found in sediments deposited during the late Holocene suggest that an ocean current that circles the southern polar region, known as Circumpolar Deep Water, flowed underneath the Cosgrove Ice Shelf and melted it.

In the south low pressure at the poles increases the strength of the circumpolar current through Drakes Passage and constrain storms to the polar region — with significant implications for Southern Hemisphere hydrology.

It was also in a region, central Canada, were transition was important because it covers the annual shift of the Circumpolar Vortex (CV).

The centre of each low pressure region is a persistent cyclone known as the circumpolar vortex.

Amplifying this threat is a potential trigger for this instability that surrounds the region: a mass of warm water known as Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW).

The Atlantic Ocean and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current region.

Figure 4, C and D, shows that the dominant OHC variability below 300 m occurs mainly in the Atlantic basin and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) region.

Richard, as I pointed out elsewhere in this thread, the ozone hole facilitates cooling in the southern polar region while the circumpolar vortex block warm air advection from the north.

This region represents a sharp boundary in physical conditions that was established after the initiation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and became more extreme at the middle Miocene climate transition (∼ 13.8 Mya [54]-RRB-, a time that is close to the initiation of spreading at the ESR.

The AMO should be out of phase in the region of the Antarctic circumpolar ocean (21), where deep water from the North Atlantic upwells.