Sentences with phrase «further ice melt»

These early open water areas absorb the sun's energy, which will help to further ice melt through the summer.

These early open water areas absorb the sun's energy, which help to further ice melt through the summer.

This, in turn, can spur further ice melt.

In the case of Arctic shipping, more traffic generates more soot, promoting further ice melt and inviting more traffic.

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Further, the less time an ice sheet has to create new layers of ice each winter, the less strong ice is created and built into centuries of previous strong sea ice, leaving ever more vulnerable and easy - to - melt sea ice.

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Ice caps are melting faster than predicted, violent storms are the new normal (ask Long Island residents who were flooded last week), oceans are warmer, wild fires consume thousands of acres in the far West, draught racks almost half of our heartland.

Over hundreds or thousands of years, vast ice sheets can melt away, further decreasing the planet's reflectivity.

While satellite measurements and climate models have detailed this recent ice loss, there are far fewer direct measurements of melt collected from the ice sheet itself.

After further analysis of the data, the scientists found that although a strong El Niño changes wind patterns in West Antarctica in a way that promotes flow of warm ocean waters towards the ice shelves to increase melting from below, it also increases snowfall particularly along the Amundsen Sea sector.

Rapidly melting ice in the Far North alarms climatologists and lures nations into competition for newly accessible trade routes and resources.

If the ice at the bottom of a glacier melts, the point where it connects to the bedrock moves backward, farther inland, losing ice to the ocean in the process.

«This knowledge about how Arctic sea ice melts over the course of the summer season will be valuable in further research,» he says.

The finding, a new atmospheric mechanism that links Arctic melting to conditions farther south, suggests that calamities like the 2012 — 16 drought may become more frequent as Arctic ice continues to vanish.

The next step is to use estimates of future sea ice loss to make predictions of how further melting could influence summer rainfall in Europe in the years to come.

The melting and retreating of Arctic sea ice in the summer months also has allowed PWW to move further north than in the past when currents pushed it westward toward the Canadian archipelago.

In the San Francisco Bay area, sea level rise alone could inundate an area of between 50 and 410 square kilometres by 2100, depending both on how much action is taken to limit further global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melt.

And they stress that more melting ice from Greenland will bump this number up further.

Sea ice and icebergs also melt as ocean currents carry them to warmer places farther from the poles.

This causes temperatures to rise further, melting more ice, and so on.

Such ice melts are far more common than previously thought and will change predictions about the thawing continent.

Warmth from the Earth has melted about 2000 cubic kilometers of water, making Lake Vostok by far the largest of more than 70 known lakes within the Antarctic ice.

Further melting could cause more multiyear ice from the Arctic Ocean to drift into the NWP, making it less, not more passable.

Swims are occurring more often, in association with sea ice melting faster and moving farther from shore in the summer.»

As a result of the dramatic melting on its underside, the shelf's grounding line will shift further south and the ice will gradually lose direct contact with the seafloor.

But DeConto says that Hindmarsh's work predicts future ice loss based on what's happened so far, and doesn't take into account processes like ice surface melt that haven't kicked in yet.

As the last ice age waned, floods from a melting ice sheet wafted big bergs as far as the Florida Keys

The regular purging indicates that far more ice is melting than previous thought.

But as climate change melts more sea ice, the bears are likely to have to walk further to find prey.

On its own, sea level rise could inundate between 50 and 410 square kilometres of this area by 2100, depending on how much is done to limit further global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melt.

Since so much of the ice sheet is grounded underwater, rising sea levels may have the effect of lifting the sheets, allowing more - and increasingly warmer - water underneath it, leading to further bottom melting, more ice shelf disintegration, accelerated glacial flow, and further sea level rise, and so on and on, another vicious cycle.

Exposing that ice under the snow could further boost algae's melting.

Does it mean that transient climate response (as expressed by ice sheet or see - ice melting among other events) to GHGs is not so far from equilibrium climate sensitivity?

Additionally, it is postulated that the warming climate will likely extend melt seasons, leading to increases in biological activity and thus contributing further to the darkening of glaciers and ice sheets (Benning et al., 2014).

For example, ice loss in far - off West Antarctica will have more profound impacts in Scandinavia than it will in nearby Australia, while right now melting Alaskan glaciers contribute more to sea - level rise in the Baltic than the Greenland ice sheet.

[SLIDE 26] Coastal erosion — this is the village of Shishmaref, in the far far north of Alaska, where the coastal erosion is not so much from rising sea level but the melting sea ice has reduced the protection from waves.

This phenomenon is further exacerbated by land - ice melt, particularly the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets.

As this ice melts, less sunlight is reflected back to space, leading to more absorption of solar energy into the ocean and atmosphere, further increasing global temperatures.

Melting sea ice will mean ocean currents can carry warmer water and nutrients into Arctic water, taking fish further north and potentially allowing them to mix between oceans.

Rapid Arctic sea - ice decline: Summer - time melting of Arctic sea - ice has accelerated far beyond the expectations of climate models.

As the ice shelf thins, more water is able to circulate beneath it22, exacerbating the problem and encouraging further melting.

If our sun were to produce a large superflare, Earth's ozone layer would be destroyed, and ice on the daylight side of moons as far out as those of Jupiter or even Saturn would be melted, producing vast floodplains that refreeze after the flare subsides.

Other indicators such as ocean acidification, increasing deep ocean heat, melting ice and permafrost, shrinking snow pack, and sea level rise further make the case that the additional carbon dioxide is affecting the global climate system.

Arctic sea - ice has melted far beyond the expectations of climate models.

In this case, incursions of circumpolar deep water onto the continental shelf are melting the ice stream at its base and encouraging grounding line recession, which results in a positive feedback loop and further grounding line recession.

Further, melt - water of the floating ice - sheets will reoccupy same volume of the displaced water by floating ice - sheets causing no sea - level rise.

In both cases, however, the melting of ice that reaches the sea allows ice further inland to flow faster, boosting the overall transfer of ice from the continent to the ocean and adding to the rise in sea level.

The situation is far more dire up in Shishmaref, where not only is ground disappearing but so are people, such as the son of an Eskimo who perished when he fell through a crack in the rapidly melting Arctic ice.

You could see it from our farm in Njoro, in the British East African Protectorate — hard edged at the far end of a stretching golden plain, its crown glazed with ice that never completely melted.

If you use ice melts, hose down and wash off all traces of the ice melts when the weather improves to minimize further exposure to your pet.