Sentences with phrase «from polar»

«Significant loss of ice from polar ice sheets» Of course, this does not apply to floating ice (with the exception of small changes due to higher temperature and water expansion that might happen incidentally).

What isn't clear is whether this will make the shelf ice around the continent — and shelf ice slows the flow of glaciers from the polar hinterland — any less stable.

Animals higher up on the food chain typically suffer the most, from polar bears to humans.

«If the rush to the poles fails to complete, this creates a tremendous dilemma for the theorists, as it would mean that Cycle 23's magnetic field will not completely disappear from the polar regions.

Furthermore, a study in November suggested the «pause» may be largely an illusion resulting from the lack of temperature readings from polar regions, where warming is greatest.

Paul Souders gets up close with animals from polar bears to penguins, from walrus to belugas, as he travels from pole to pole documenting wildlife.

Reconstructing recent atmospheric trace gas concentrations from polar firn and bubbly ice data by inverse methods

Northerly winds tend to bring relatively cold air from polar regions to the British Isles.

The jet stream changes which drive cold air from the polar regions has provided colder conditions for the past 3 years, any changes to cloud cover extent which is also proposed by harmonic drivers will further increase the influence from exterior sources.

A contributor to the famous «hockey stick graph», he specialises in mining historic climate data from polar ice cores.

There is important research that attempts to tie global warming to carbon dioxide emissions and a long list of supporting research and observations from polar ice melting and polar bears to strength and number of exceptional storms.

Climate forcings due to past changes in GHGs and surface albedo can be computed for the past 800000 years using data from polar ice cores and ocean sediment cores.

President of the National Academy of Sciences Ralph Cicerone says rising sea levels — and the loss of ice from polar regions — are at least partially caused by human activities.

A front is a boundary between two different types of air masses, these are normally warm moist air masses from the tropics and cooler drier air masses from polar regions.

Within the belts of the westerly winds, cold easterly winds from polar regions meet the warm westerly winds of the middle latitudes, causing the formation of the traveling depressions characteristic of middle latitudes.

It comes down on the side of a stochastic forcing from the polar annular modes.

A recent study using archives from a polar - adapted forecast model found that West Antarctica is subject to frequent excursions of warm and moist marine air masses originating from the Ross and Amundsen Seas (Nicolas and Bromwich 2010).

In particular we use new data from the polar regions and remote islands to improve data coverage and extend the reconstruction to 2009.

The National Satellite Data Centre, located north of the Arctic Circle in Sodankylä (67 ° 22 N, 26 ° 39 E) lies in an excellent location for receiving data from all polar orbiting spacecraft.

Past changes in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations can be determined with very high confidence from polar ice cores.

I guarded six workers there from polar bears.

The latitudes used for the SST anomalies in this illustration are 20N - 65N, which are latitudes that have little impact from polar ice.

So, the original theory of AGW would have produced warmer air coming from the polar regions which would have created a smaller temperature difference between systems, and thus would have created fewer extreme weather events, not more of them.

Deep snow over birthing lairs (diagram above, see also Lydersen and Gjerz 1986) means ringed seal pups are well protected from polar bear predation — the seals do well but the polar bears do not.

This week Abraham launched a «ready response team» website to quickly connect the news media to about 50 national experts on everything from polar bears to flooding in Pakistan to the influence of sun spots on the Earth's temperature.

From polar areas to equatorial waters, the whales ingested pollutants that may have been produced by humans thousands of miles away, the researchers said.

The World Data Center (WDC) for Paleoclimatology maintains archives of ice core data from polar and low - latitude mountain glaciers and ice caps throughout the world.

It may have its origin with the 800 year overturning of deep ocean waters from the polar sink places to the equatortial upwelling places.

A higher salt content — from polar westerlies — is a proxy for solar activity.

When atmospheric mass moves from polar regions it is usually the Antarctic that provides, but quite frequently the Arctic contributes.

Thus, the concept of increasing CO2 is causing increasing sea level rise from polar ice melt embodies two assumptions that need to be established with physical evidence: 1) the extent to which increased CO2 will cause increased temperatures, assumptions or models do not suffice; and 2) the extent to which increased temperatures will cause Antarctic ice melt.

The Greenland ice sheet is poised for another record melt this year, and is approaching a «tipping point» into a new and more dangerous melt regime in which the summer melt area covers the entire land mass, according to new findings from polar researchers.

His research interests encompass the analysis, modelling and prediction of weather and climate from a polar perspective.

Some mechanisms for that are hypothesized, e.g. methane release from polar regions, increased melting of Greenland leading to stopping the Gulf Stream, rapid reduction of Arctic sea - ice and its positive feedback, collapse of Antarctic ice shelves, loss of the Amazon, large volcanoes, asteroid impacts, unexpected solar variation.

Well the bottom of the Oceans is at 4 degrees so the water there came from polar sources, melted ice / seawater or chilled winter, high salt brines.

In our latitudes a front usually separates warm, moist air from the tropics and cold, relatively dry air from polar regions.

Some are from the polar regions, some from the tropics, some from the northern hemisphere, some from the southern, some from ocean sites, and some from inland sites.

That air column allows mixture with air from the polar cell, but the water picked up will be precipitated out before the polar cell can cause it to circulate over greenland.

Over the last 35 years, our research team has recovered ice - core records of climatic and environmental variations from the polar regions and from low - latitude high - elevation ice fields from 16 countries.

Has anyone yet talked up designing a Mars lander that would be able to drill a core from the polar ice cap, scan it and give us another data set?

We have Unilever seeking approval of a genetically modified (GM) ice - structuring protein derived from a polar fish, ocean pout, for use in making Breyer's Ice Cream smoother and creamier....

The lower trend found by our study is consistent with the median projected sums of thermal expansion and glacier mass loss, implying that no net contribution from polar ice sheets is needed over 1901 - 1990.

I also sought reactions from some polar bear specialists and biologists focused on DNA clues to when the species split from its brown bear kin.

But what I don't understand is how Unilever is seeking approval of a genetically modified (GM) ice - structuring protein derived from a polar fish, ocean pout, for use in making Breyer's Ice Cream smoother and creamier....

We know this because of the ice core analysis from the polar regions both north and south.

The British photographer manages to cover all seven continents, from polar ice under an icy - white sky to tropical waters bathed in light.

The video's glamour nods to everything from the polar sublime and New York at night to The March of the Penguins, comic opera, and one big party.

From November to March, Banderas Bay is home to humpback whales, migrating from their polar feeding grounds to breed and play in these safe warm waters.

Spend six full days exploring the Antarctic Peninsula and South Shetland Islands, conquer the notorious Drake Passage, learn from polar experts about the wonders of the Antarctic region, come face -...

They also were excellent hunters of seals and protected the Mahlemuts from polar bears.