Sentences with word «cryosphere»

You can get an idea of this by looking at the comparison between the low ice at the beginning of September and the ice today from Cryosphere Today.

Qu, X., and A. Hall, 2005: Surface contribution to planetary albedo variability in cryosphere regions.

Others seem to prefer NSIDC data for monthly averages of both sea ice area and sea ice extent, or JAXA for daily data on sea ice extent, or daily sea ice area data from Cryosphere Today.

Glaciers in South America's Andes mountain range are receding at unprecedented rates as a result of climate change, according to a recent study published in the science journal Cryosphere.

As Reuters noted in their remarkable piece on Canadian cryosphere scientist David Barber, «Scientists link higher Arctic temperatures and melting sea ice to the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming.»

Information on the amount of snow is also sent to the Global Cryosphere Watch service of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMP) where the information is combined with trends and statistics of past years.

Indeed the last five years include the five lowest sea ice extents since records began in 1979, and much of that trend has been caused by global warming, says NASA Cryosphere Program manager Tom Wagner in his video interpretation of the 2011 sea ice record (43 MB MPEG - 4).

Some organizations, including Cryosphere Today, report ice area; NSIDC primarily reports ice extent.

Investigate how surface exchanges of buoyancy and momentum between the ocean and the atmosphere / cryosphere drive the AMOC circulation across a broad range of timescales from monthly to millennial (i.e., quasi-steady-state).

We can quantify past impacts based on the sea level feedback (cryosphere response).

The WMO Global Cryosphere Watch (GCW), initiated in 2011, provides authoritative info

Now the models may show this stability, but why should we believe them when they clearly don't faithfully re-produce or predict some of the important atmosphere / ocean / cryosphere dynamics we are observing in the real world?

The International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI) has published the first testing protocol for black carbon emissions from wood fuelled heat stoves.

If I had to make a trifecta bet (picking the order of first, second and third place finishers) on the likely sources of polar carbon - cycle climate feedback, my bet would be: first, permafrost organic matter; second, fossil methane from beneath the permafrost cryosphere cap; third, methane hydrates from below permafrost, the deep (> 300m) ocean and, perhaps, from beneath the bigice sheets.

Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC); International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI); United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Again one must look at mirror causations, the biggest one is the shrinking Cryosphere, This heat wave is the reflection of sea ice volume disappearance.

I've seen the blue blobs of temperature anomalies and read — as far as I am able to comprehend — the materials on the breakdown of the AMOC, along with following cryosphere melting.

Leibman, the chief scientist at the Earth Cryosphere Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has studied permafrost since 1973 and has a remarkable publication record.

Since then, NSIDC has evolved to manage cryosphere - related data ranging from the smallest text file to terabytes of remote sensing data from NASA's Earth Observing System satellite program.

In both polar regions, components of the terrestrial cryosphere and hydrology are increasingly being affected by climate change (very high confidence).

Anthony, you can combine the IPCC FAR WG1 Figure (a) and UUIC Cryosphere Today Arctic extent anomaly graph, but keep in mind that they both have different baselines.

The atmosphere responds quickly, the land not quite so fast, the deep ocean and cryosphere very slowly.

Roger's teaching and research spanned climate change, arctic and mountain climates, synoptic climatology, snow and ice processes, and climate - cryosphere interactions.

The melting figure does not include ice loss caused by calving and ice dynamics — thought to be at least equally high according to lead researcher Marco Tedesco, who heads the College's Cryosphere Processes Laboratory.

Mars has this very thick cryosphere, or permanently frozen rock layer, on its surface.

Wilson, T., 2012, Solid Earth Response and influence on Cryosphere Evolution: A Developing SCAR Research Focus, Proc.

This year will also see the continuation of two major cryosphere airborne and field campaigns: Operation IceBridge, which has provided a multi-dimensional view of Greenland, Antarctica, and sea ice since 2009, and the JPL - managed Oceans Melting Greenland, which is focused on the interaction between ocean waters and Greenland's glaciers that terminate in the ocean.

This work is also funded in part by the National Science Foundation, the Carlsberg Foundation and the Centre of Excellence Cryosphere - Atmosphere Interactions in a Changing Arctic Climate (CRAICC) funded by NordForsk.

Parts of Earth's cryosphere supply life - sustaining water to more than one billion people around the world, and NASA observations will help people manage that natural resource.

We compared the temporal variability of the heat content of the world ocean, of the global atmosphere, and of components of Earth's cryosphere during the latter half of the 20th century.

The magnitude and timing of this emission scenario is unconstrained due to large uncertainties in estimating future rates of cryosphere degradation, hydrocarbon reservoir response, and potential methane oxidation.

4 (NeilT) There are those who suspect Cryosphere Today of having a butcher's thumb on the scale; they have made adjustments in data with shabby rationales.

Arctic cryosphere loss already embodies the problem of accelerating albedo feedback driven by radiative forcing, and arrresting this ominous process may remain beyond the capacity of CO2 policy for decades to come;