Sentences with phrase «covers summer study»

This second phase covers summer study and after school training program costs for select students.

Not exact matches

Many of the forecasts analyzed in the study focused on the state of the ice cover prior to the summer melt season.

Nearly 30 percent of ice covering the Arctic Ocean at summer's peak is thin enough to foster sprawling phytoplankton blooms in the waters below, a recent study estimated.

When the authors looked at seasonal trends over the same time period, the most notable expansion of the Sahara occurred in summer, resulting in a nearly 16 percent increase in the desert's average seasonal area over the 93 - year span covered by the study.

According to a 20 - year study done at Johns Hopkins University, and cited in a Time magazine cover story about summer learning loss, «low - income elementary school students lost ground in reading each summer, compared with their higher - income peers, who made progress.»

The kids could get summer jobs to cover additional costs if they study away from home, Stronach adds.

In a new study, Box and a team of researchers describe the decline in ice sheet reflectivity and the reasons behind it, noting that if current trends continue, the area of ice that melts during the summer season is likely to expand to cover all of Greenland for the first time in the observational record, rather than just the lower elevations at the edges of the continent, as is the case today.

However, studies so far have found that the summer season has the lowest correlation between ice cover and cloud cover, which would minimize the offsetting effect that clouds play.

The second study uses a different climate model to simulate Arctic summer ice cover under a range of scenarios.

The new studies, which are both published in Nature Climate Change, focus in on how efforts to curb climate change could affect summer sea ice cover in the Arctic.

Polar bears are one of the most sensitive Arctic marine mammals to climate warming because they spend most of their lives on sea ice.35 Declining sea ice in northern Alaska is associated with smaller bears, probably because of less successful hunting of seals, which are themselves ice - dependent and so are projected to decline with diminishing ice and snow cover.36, 37,38,39 Although bears can give birth to cubs on sea ice, increasing numbers of female bears now come ashore in Alaska in the summer and fall40 and den on land.41 In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.45

Worth noting that the Imhoff et al 2010 study covers continental US, where you probably get more waste heat in summer than winter (due to AC).

Researchers who study climate and sea ice expect that at some point, the Arctic Ocean will lose its ice cover completely in late summer.

The study adds to the evidence showing that the free - fall in summer sea ice extent and even sharper decline in spring snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere is reverberating throughout the atmosphere, making extreme events more likely to occur.

Phil Jones and his coauthors in the recent multiproxy study (Neukom et al 2011, (Climate Dynamics) Multiproxy summer and winter surface air temperature field reconstructions for southern South America covering the past centuries) did not archive proxy data in the Supplementary Information.

They can help you to create your resume and cover letter, if you don't already have one, as well as direct you to resources that can help you find a summer internship in your area of interest or field of study and in a location where you will be living over summer break.