Sentences with phrase «covered by sea»

My disagreement is with the earlier assessments which claim that this increase will be large and due in most part to the changes in the relative areas covered by sea - ice and open water.

The area covered by sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk to its lowest level this week since satellite measurements began nearly 30 years ago, opening up the Northwest Passage — a long - sought short cut between Europe and Asia that has been historically impassable.

This overshoot is caused predominantly by the reduction of the meltwater in the northern North Atlantic associated with the retreat of the large amount of sea ice, an effect that becomes dominant when the subpolar North Atlantic is covered by sea ice as in the glacial condition.

By early September, the area covered by sea ice in the Arctic Ocean was approaching a record low.

Area of the Arctic (upper) and Antarctic (lower) covered by sea - ice, for the period January 1979 to March 2018, shown as monthly anomalies relative to 1981 - 2010.

Another indicator of intensifying global warming: The area of Arctic Ocean covered by sea ice, a major influencer of weather for the Northern Hemisphere, continued its multi-year shrinking trend.

The area of the Arctic Ocean covered by some sea ice was at a record low for the month of October, according to data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).

Challenges also remain for altimeter measurements poleward of the 66 ° turning latitude of the reference missions and in regions covered by sea ice.»

The area of the Arctic Ocean covered by sea ice naturally waxes and wanes with the seasons, reaching its peak at the end of winter and its nadir at the end of summer, usually in mid-September.

Core PS2757 - 8 is located on the southern Lomonosov Ridge close to the Laptev Sea continental margin, an area that is predominantly covered by sea ice (Fig. 1; 7/10 summer sea ice concentration) but may occasionally be even ice - free during summer.

Sea ice extent is how much of the ocean is covered by sea ice, not the depth of the ice.

It is partly covered by sea ice throughout the year and almost completely in winter.

Much of the Arctic Ocean is covered by sea ice that varies in extent and thickness seasonally.

CERSAT distributes daily sea ice extent and concentration data (local percentage of the ocean surface covered by sea ice).

RSS set their north pole band up to 82.5 N, and this includes large areas covered by sea ice.

Earlier this week, scientists confirmed the area of Arctic Ocean covered by sea ice — known as sea ice extent — reached a record low in November.

The area covered by sea ice in the Arctic hit record lows through the winter of 2017.

The area of the Arctic Ocean covered by sea ice in September, when the annual minimum occurs, was the sixth lowest extent in the satellite record, going back to 1979.

Both the area of water covered by sea ice and the thickness of the ice have been decreasing in recent years, and thinner ice is blown farther and faster by the wind.

The ice coverage on the Arctic Ocean shriveled last September to 1.32 million square miles, the smallest expanse ever recorded and less than half the area covered by sea ice three decades ago.

The area of the Arctic Ocean covered by sea ice usually hits its winter peak in early to mid-March, as the freeze season ends with the re-emergence of the sun above the horizon.

The area covered by sea ice hovered near its historic low this summer, and is expected to be largely gone by mid-century (ClimateWire, Dec. 17, 2010).

I'm one of only a few dozen maybe in the whole world who focus on landscapes that got covered by sea level rise or prehistoric settlements that were terrestrial but ended up underwater.

(By September, the Arctic area covered by sea ice was the third - lowest recorded since 1979 — the other record years were 2007 and 2008.)

For the Athenians died by famine; and the people of Samos were covered by the sea without remedy; and the Jews, brought to desolation and expelled from their kingdom, are driven away into every land.

Not exact matches

Cassini was able to probe beneath this moon's cloud cover, discovering rivers flowing into lakes and seas and being replenished by rain.

COVER STORY: SEA CHANGE By Jonathan Gregson Africa's economic prospects have never been better.

Dead Sea Scrolls that have been covered up by the vatican have already hypothesized that jesus preached that the holy temple is your body that was given to you and no other temple need to be worshipped as long as you care about your temple and do not cause ill will to the temples of others.

They had covered a distance of only 125 miles though Macedonia is separated from Mysia by the lonian Sea.

By the time next winter rolled around, Covered Bridge had introduced its Storm Chips product, a bag that blended four of its most popular chip flavors, Creamy Dill Pickle, Smokin» Sweet BBQ, Ketchup and Sea Salt & Vinegar.

NOTE: Make vanilla - scented sea salt by finely crushing a vanilla bean and combining it with sea salt (preferably fleur de sel) in a tightly covered glass container.

Begin by making the garlic yogurt sauce, finely mince 1 clove of garlic and add it to a mortar, using a pestle pound down on the garlic until you form a paste, then add 1 cup of Greek yogurt, 1/2 teaspoon onion powder, 1/2 teaspoon dried dill and 1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice, season generously with sea salt and freshly cracked black pepper and mix everything together until well combined, cover with seran wrap and add it to the fridge

Grab a medium sized sauce pan, add 2 yukon gold potatoes, add enough water to cover the potatoes by at least 1 inch, season with sea salt and turn the burner to a high heat, once the water begins to boil, add a lid and lower the fire to a low - medium heat, after about 20 - 25 minutes the potatoes should be perfectly cooked, remove from the heat and run cold water on them and set aside

Grab a small sauce pan, add 2 yukon gold potatoes, add enough water to cover the potatoes by at least 1 inch, season with sea salt and turn your burner on to a high heat

During this time, precipitation and meltwater seeped into the exposed shelf areas and filled water tables, which were then covered up by the ocean as sea levels rose again.

Across the species» range from Baja California, Mexico, to Alaska, bioerosion on urchin - covered sandstone reefs, the researchers report, produces sediment approximately equivalent to that delivered to the coast by a river — some 200 tons of sediment per hectare — suggesting that when you stroll along the beach, a not insignificant chunk of the sand is, in fact, sea urchin waste.

The result: Surface temperatures increased rapidly, especially in the Arctic, which saw its September sea ice cover shrink by 25 percent.

«This shift is characterized by the persistent decline in the thickness and summer extent of sea - ice cover and by a warmer, l

The key to finding the oldest wrecks, he says, is locating «relic surfaces» that have escaped being buried by sediment, which flows downhill and covers the deep sea floor.

At that time southern Poland was partially covered by a warm sea, allowing reptiles such as Nothosauria to live there.

«We were also able to verify that sea ice cover does indeed impede ocean swell from reaching the coastline by showing which regions of sea ice impact the intensity of microseisms.

If Earth were a perfect sphere, perfectly uniform in density and covered to a uniform depth with ocean, the geoid — a word coined by geologists to refer to an imaginary plane located at the average level of the sea's surface — would be a perfect sphere as well.

Willerslev thinks the Western Stemmed projectiles were made by the first migrants into America, who came in by sea on the west coast while the continental interior was still covered in ice.

Within a few hundred years sea levels in some places had risen by as much as 10 meters — more than if the ice sheet that still covers Greenland were to melt today.

Burial in the ancient sea of Zealandia: a Toipahautea whale skeleton is slowly covered by sand 27 - 28 million years ago, on its path to become a fossil.

AWI researchers observed a considerable decrease in the thickness of the sea ice as early as the late summer of 2015, even though the overall ice covered area of the September minimum ultimately exceeded the record low of 2012 by approximately one million square kilometres.

Melting can be rapid: as the last ice age ended, the disappearance of the ice sheet covering North America increased sea level by more than a metre per century at times.

That's important — changing sea ice, changing lake ice, changing snow cover, increasing shrubs — but I wanted the book to enrich that picture, by describing those changes through the human lives that experience them.

They were contained in rocks which Izett says may have been formed by a tsunami, following the impact in the shallow sea that covered Iowa.

Arctic sea ice cover, made of frozen seawater that floats on top of the ocean, helps regulate the planet's temperature by reflecting solar energy back to space.