Sentences with phrase «extreme ice events»

One group will use the data to improve a climate prediction model by incorporating extreme ice events.

When driving during major inclement weather such as snow, ice, heavy rain, etc., you should increase your safe following distance to a minimum of 6 seconds (during extreme icing events, as much as 10 seconds is recommended).

Not exact matches

Today, ice sheets are melting, sea level is rising, oceans are warming, and weather events are becoming more extreme.

«The loss of sea ice in the Arctic and changes to heat storage will lead to changes in weather patterns that could bring extreme heat and cold events to the continental United States similar to those seen in recent years, and possibly even more intense.»

Its core is a flurry of recent research proposing that such extreme weather events in the midlatitudes are linked through the atmosphere with the effects of rapid climate change in the Arctic, such as dwindling sea ice.

Kopp noted recent findings have revealed the possibility of even more serious impacts including «ice sheet melt in Greenland and Antarctica to compound extremes, where events occurring simultaneously or in rapid sequence can amplify the risks to both human and natural systems.»

Even if you ignore all the temperature meauserments which you seem to vehimently deny there is still many other sources of evidence associated with this increase such as — ice melt / extreme weather events / sea current changes / habitat changes / CO2 / ice cores / sediment cores.

The planet is getting warmer, ocean temperatures are rising, the polar ice caps are melting, and all of the incontrovertible science of climate change is that more extreme - weather events are an inevitable consequence.

Our scientific understanding of disturbance associated with extreme weather events limits our ability to project landslides, blow downs, ice storms, and other such events in the future.

One of the extreme events, which has mystified scientists for long, took place 717 million years ago and is called «snowball Earth» — the largest glaciation event in history during which the planet was covered almost entirely in ice.

«Sea ice status now; projection for rest of melt season, implications to extreme weather events and global food supply.»

Among the key new features in Ice Cream Sandwich and the Galaxy Nexus is Face Unlock, which uses facial recognition to unlock  the phone using the front facing camera, though it does need to be calibrated and can be thrown off by extreme lighting in practice, as evidenced by last night's failed demo during the launch event in Hong Kong.

Regardless, I would posit the worsening winter ice formation is as expected given the poles suffer first and winters warm faster than summers, BUT that this is happening within two years of the EN peak, which was my time line in 2015, one wonders if the combination of warm EN - heated Pacific waters (oceans move slowly) and warm air are a trailing edge of the EN effect OR this is signallibg a phase change driven by that EN, or is just an extreme winter event.

The highs tend to enhance the flow of warm, moist air over Greenland, contributing to increased extreme heat events and surface ice melting, according to the study.

These parameters include global mean surface temperature, sea - level rise, ocean and ice sheet dynamics, ocean acidification, and extreme climatic events.

The trait, he proposed, comes to the surface when such people confront strong messaging on the need for emissions reductions amid enduringly murky science on what's driving some particular extreme environmental phenomenon in the world — whether a brief period of widespread melting on the Greenland ice sheet, a potent drought, a tornado outbreak or the extreme event of the moment, the hybrid nor» easter / hurricane known on Twitter as #Frankenstorm.

Our Tietsche, et al., 2011 paper basically shows that both extent and volume can recover on similar time scales after extreme loss events, in particular for the thin ice that we have around nowadays.

This result would be strongly dependent on the exact dynamic response of the Greenland ice sheet to surface meltwater, which is modeled poorly in todays global models.Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.

Could this happen as a result of some extreme weather event, creating an extra ice horizon which is mistakenly taken as an annual layer?

A tornado is an extreme event, but one whose causes, sensitivity to change and impacts have nothing to do with those related to an ice storm, or a heat wave or cold air outbreak or a drought.

Thirty years ago, the popular theory was that the Earth was heading into another ice age, and the same extreme weather events that some people are blaming on global warming were blamed on global COOLING!

It's not like there isn't anything climate - y to talk about (sea ice minimums, extreme events, climate model tunings, past «hyperthermals»... etc.).

Peer - reviewed literature about the effects of climate change are in broad agreement that air and surface water temperatures are rising and will continue to do so, that ice cover is declining steadily, and that precipitation and extreme events are on the rise.

Better resource availability for infrastructure repair required due to extreme weather (e.g., human and physical resources for water main breaks and road repair due to extended freezes, and better stockpiled availability of salt and de-icing chemicals for previously unpredictable extended snow and ice events).

Limits must be strict enough to avert the worst consequences of global warming that are already being felt in extreme weather events, droughts, floods, melting glaciers and polar ice caps and rising sea levels that threaten to swamp coastal communities and small island states.

The loss of Arctic summer sea ice and the rapid warming of the continent could be altering the jet stream [3]-- and thus weather patterns — over North America, Europe and Russia, increasing the likelihood of extreme weather events and driving winter storms south.

We intend to remain focused on what really matters, such as the alarmingly rapid decline in Arctic sea ice and increase in extreme weather events.

The bleaching of coral reefs around the world, increasing extreme weather events, the melting of large ice sheets and recent venting of methane from thawing permafrost make it abundantly clear that the earth is already too hot.

The dramatic decline in Arctic sea ice and snow is one of the most profound signs of global warming and has coincided with «a period of ostensibly more frequent events of extreme weather across the mid-latitudes, including extreme heat and rainfall events and recent severe winters,» according to the conference organizers, who are posting updates under the #arctic17 hashtag on Twitter.

It means hotter global temperatures, more extreme weather events like heatwaves and floods, melting ice, rising sea levels and increased acidity of the oceans.

On the other hand, if by some chance and what ends up happening is totally independent of human activity, because it turns out after all that CO2 from fossil fuels is magically transparent to infrared and has no effect on ocean pH, unlike regular CO2, say, but coincidentally big pieces of the ice sheets melt and temperature goes up 7 C in the next couple of centuries and weather patterns change and large unprecedented extreme events happen with incerasing frequency, and coincidentally all the reefs and shellfish die and the ocean becomes a rancid puddle, that could be unfortunate.

Hence, the 2012 Arctic sea ice minimum provides a counterexample to the often - quoted idea that individual extreme events can not be attributed to human influence.

This warming, in turn, has melted ice, raised sea levels, and increased the frequency of extreme weather events: heat waves and heavy rains, for example.

The evidence includes accelerated sea level rise, rising global temperatures, warming oceans, declining Arctic ice sheet, worldwide glaciers retreat, increase of extreme weather events and ocean acidification.

«The CCR - II report correctly explains that most of the reports on global warming and its impacts on sea - level rise, ice melts, glacial retreats, impact on crop production, extreme weather events, rainfall changes, etc. have not properly considered factors such as physical impacts of human activities, natural variability in climate, lopsided models used in the prediction of production estimates, etc..

The «Temperature Departure From Average» map below further reveals the areas of concentration for climate engineering orchestrated chemical cool - downs and sea surface chemical ice nucleation (also fueling extreme hail events).

In particular, my foci include modeling trends in the timing of transition seasons, such as spring, and evaluating the influences of Arctic amplification and sea ice variability on midlatitude extreme weather events.

The Northeast is often affected by extreme events such as ice storms, floods, droughts, heat waves, hurricanes, and major storms in the Atlantic Ocean off the northeast coast, referred to as nor» easters.

Meanwhile, increasingly severe climate change - related events ranging from mass coral bleaching, to glacial and sea ice melt, to tree death, to ocean health decline, to the expanding ranges of tropical infectious diseases, to worsening extreme weather events have occurred the world over.

This Section places particular emphasis on current knowledge of past changes in key climate variables: temperature, precipitation and atmospheric moisture, snow cover, extent of land and sea ice, sea level, patterns in atmospheric and oceanic circulation, extreme weather and climate events, and overall features of the climate variability.

«The climate has always changed and it always will — there is nothing unusual about the modern magnitudes or rates of change of temperature, of ice volume, of sea level or of extreme weather events,» Mr Carter added.

Her current research includes understanding large - scale temperature extreme events in Alaska and Canada, relating ice core data at the McCall Glacier in Alaska to the large - scale synoptic climatology, and understanding linkages between observed changes in the Arctic and weather in the mid-latitudes.

It it true that some parts are understated, such as projected temperature rise and ice melting, but it can be overstated, such as being linked to extreme weather events (there was a recent article on that, I believe) and the timeline of an ice - free summer Arctic Ocean.

The effect was to chill the northern regions considerably; in fact, the event was discovered only because seeds of some Canadian flowers that favor extreme cold were found in abundance in the Antarctic ice formed at the time.

The Polar bears stubbornly refuse to go extinct, indeed the buggers are thriving, the glaciers don't appear to be disappearing, sea levels have stayed boringly level, we haven't been subsumed by hordes of desperate climate refugees, the polar ice caps haven't melted, the Great Barrier Reef is still with us, we haven't fought any resource wars, oil hasn't run out, the seas insist on not getting acidic, the rainforest is still around, islands have not sunk under the sea, the ozone holes haven't got bigger, the world hasn't entered a new ice age, acid rain appears to have fallen somewhere that can't quite be located, the Gulf Stream hasn't stopped, extreme weather events have been embarrassingly sparse in recent years and guess what?

«Many of the events that made 2012 such an interesting year are part of the long - term trends we see in a changing and varying climate — carbon levels are climbing, sea levels are rising, Arctic sea ice is melting, and our planet as a whole is becoming a warmer place,» said Acting NOAA Administrator Kathryn D. Sullivan, Ph.D. «This annual report is well - researched, well - respected, and well - used; it is a superb example of the timely, actionable climate information that people need from NOAA to help prepare for extremes in our ever - changing environment.»

In 2016, record - breaking ice and snow loss is clearly linked with record warm air temperatures, and evidence suggests the Arctic meltdown is also contributing to extreme weather events around the Northern Hemisphere.

These trends in extreme weather events are accompanied by longer - term changes as well, including surface and ocean temperature increase over recent decades, snow and ice cover decrease and sea level rise.

This report discusses our current understanding of the mechanisms that link declines in Arctic sea ice cover, loss of high - latitude snow cover, changes in Arctic - region energy fluxes, atmospheric circulation patterns, and the occurrence of extreme weather events; possible implications of more severe loss of summer Arctic sea ice upon weather patterns at lower latitudes; major gaps in our understanding, and observational and / or modeling efforts that are needed to fill those gaps; and current opportunities and limitations for using Arctic sea ice predictions to assess the risk of temperature / precipitation anomalies and extreme weather events over northern continents.

Instead when North Dakota floods because a river froze over and explosives are needed to break up the ice, we hear about how global warming causes extreme weather events.