Sentences with phrase «combined polar ice»

The survey shows that there was a net loss of ice from the combined polar ice sheets between 1992 and 2002 and a corresponding rise in sea level.

Not exact matches

The combination of polar and nonpolar ice combined to raise sea levels by more than a millimeter in the last decade

That includes mixedphase clouds, which occur in polar regions and combine supercooled water with ice.

«MODIS observations of polar sea ice were combined with observations of Antarctica made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's AVHRR sensor — the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer.»

Updated Ten days ago, the grinding slow - motion rivers of floating sea ice flowing around Canada's Arctic archipelago claimed the lives of Marc Cornelissen and Philip de Roo, seasoned Dutch polar trekkers combining an adventurous spirit with environmental activism and citizen science.

For this purpose — combined with a couple other programs — we took ice - based measurements that were then overflown by various aircraft with downward looking sensors, which in turn flew missions beneath the polar - orbiting satellite track.

After all, the computer models used to predict a dire future for polar bears combined the Chukchi Sea with the Southern Beaufort, as having similar ice habitats («ice ecoregions»).

A new paper that combines paleoclimatology data for the last 56 million years with molecular genetic evidence concludes there were no biological extinctions [of Arctic marine animals] over the last 1.5 M years despite profound Arctic sea ice changes that included ice - free summers: polar bears, seals, walrus and other species successfully adapted to habitat changes that exceeded those predicted by USGS and US Fish and Wildlife polar bear biologists over the next 100 years.

To the embarrassment of the journal, this photo is «photoshopped» — combining polar bear, ice floes, clouds, and other elements into a perfectly lovely, albeit made - up piece of art.