Sentences with phrase «eastern beaufort»

In the eastern Beaufort Sea and Amundsen Gulf, research on polar bear populations and their ecological interrelationships with seals and sea ice conditions began in the fall of 1970.

For example, in the eastern Beaufort Sea, repeated bouts of thick spring ice, lasting 2 - 3 years out of every 10 years or so since the 1960s, have occurred.

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Barber discusses the eastern Beaufort Sea and Haas the region north of Ellesmere Island.

The recent NSIDC sea ice chart from 9 August (Figure 4) shows major open water areas in the eastern Beaufort Sea, East Siberian Sea, and Kara Sea, and a strip of sea ice continuing in the Chukchi Sea.

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In mid-1980, there were three gray whale sightings in the eastern Beaufort Sea, placing them 585 kilometers (364 mi) further east than their known range at the time.

Not exact matches

Conversely, in autumn, the amount of open water in the Beaufort and eastern Chukchi Seas appeared to be very influential in affecting the temperature at Utqiagvik and the subsequent timing of the onset of snowpack.

The second of these zones issues from the developing El Nino in the Eastern Pacific, rides up over the hot «Blob» of ocean water in the Northeastern Pacific, invades Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, and then enters the Beaufort and Chukchi seas.

There are currently active leases off the southern California coast in the Gulf of Mexico and north of Alaska in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, but as part of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006, new leases will only be sold in the eastern portion of the gulf until 2022 and Cook Inlet in Alaska for the next five year.

Sea ice this year is melting at a pace two to four weeks faster than normal as pulses of warm air have been streaming into the Arctic from eastern Siberia and northern Europe and sea ice has retreated early from the Beaufort Sea.

Prediction is based on evaluation of ice age that shows current ice extent has retreated back to the multiyear ice edge in the eastern Arctic and in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas.

Most of the first - year ice formed in the Beaufort and eastern Chukchi Sea during winter has now been removed by melt.

Regionally, the 2010 extent was greater than 2009 in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, Northeast of the Laptev Sea, and in the Greenland Sea; in the Eastern Siberian Sea, the 2010 extent was less than 2009 (Figure 1).

Aerial thickness surveys and ground - based sampling in the western Beaufort and eastern Chukchi Sea in April this year indicate that level ice in the region is well over 3 m thick and strong (due to low salt content; www.sizonet.org).

Summer of 2008 shows a large region of less sea ice than normal over the Beaufort Sea compared to 2005 which had less ice cover than normal in the Eastern Siberian Sea and Laptev Sea.

Comparing the latest ice age data from Maslanik and Fowler (see Maslanik contribution) for 21 June 2010 (Figure 6) to current (20 July) ice extent data shows that the ice edge has retreated back to the boundary between first - year and multi-year ice pack in the eastern Arctic and in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas.

Thick multi-year ice is likely to persist in the southern Beaufort and eastern Chukchi seas.

In the southern Chukchi and eastern East Siberian Sea, the ice edge is near its normal position in late June, while it is much further north than normal in the Beaufort Sea.

Relative to recent years and potential impacts on polar bear health and survival in Canada, there is nothing alarming in the pattern or speed of sea ice breakup for 2017, either over Hudson Bay, the southern Beaufort, or the eastern high Arctic.

While the ice thickness is generally thinner in May 2016 compared to previous years, the air temperature has been several degrees above the last 10 year mean in the northern North Atlantic and the Beaufort Sea, but colder in the Eastern Siberian Sea and Laptev Sea causing the described melt pond pattern.

Taxonomic and Regional Guides for the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf, Southeast U.S. Continental Shelf, Gulf of Mexico, California Current and Gulf of Alaska, Eastern Bering Sea, and Aleutian Islands, and Chukchi and Beaufort Seas Large Marine Ecosystems.

Alaska's Large Marine Ecosystems — the Gulf of Alaska, Eastern Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, and Chukchi and Beaufort Seas:

Located 16 miles east of Beaufort, Hunting Island State Park is South Carolina's most popular park, which delivers five miles of pristine beaches, thousands of acres of marsh and maritime forest, a saltwater lagoon, an ocean inlet, the longest fishing pier on the Eastern seaboard, and a lovely lighthouse which is accessible to the public.

Nov. 20, 2014 Family Connects Launches in Eastern North Carolina Family Connects, a home visiting program for parents of newborns was launched in Beaufort, Bertie, Chowan and Hyde counties.