Sentences with phrase «further loss of sea ice»

Covering 1.59 million square miles (4.12 million square kilometers), this summer's sea ice shattered the previous record for the smallest ice cap of 2.05 million square miles (5.31 million square kilometers) in 2005 — a further loss of sea ice area equivalent to the states of California and Texas combined.

Not exact matches

«You can't go as far as saying the loss of sea ice is causing cold weather in Florida,» said Overland.

«The study suggests that loss of sea ice not only has an effect on the environment and wildlife of the Arctic region but has far reaching consequences for people living in Europe and beyond.»

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 study found that loss of Arctic sea ice shifts the jet stream further south than normal resulting in increased rain during the summer in northwest Europe.

Dr Screen added: «Scientists are eager to understand the far - flung effects of Arctic sea - ice loss.

This kind of significant change could increase the rate of warming already in progress, affect further sea ice loss in the Arctic and alter shipping access to the Arctic Ocean.

Over all, the pace of sea - level rise from the resulting ice loss doesn't go beyond about 1.5 feet per century, Dr. Pollard said in an interview, a far cry from what was thought possible a couple of decades ago.

«The ongoing rapid loss of Arctic sea ice has far reaching consequences for climate, ecology, and human activities alike,» Dirk Notz and Julienne Stroeve write in Science.

The findings reinforce suggestions that strong positive ice — temperature feedbacks have emerged in the Arctic15, increasing the chances of further rapid warming and sea ice loss, and will probably affect polar ecosystems, ice - sheet mass balance and human activities in the Arctic...» *** This is the heart of polar amplification and has very little to do with your stated defintion of amplifying the effects of warming going on at lower latitudes.

The «so called science» has so far proven remarkably accurate in its predictions of a warming planet, increasing heat waves, fires, melting ice caps, loss of sea ice, species migration and variable rainfall.

A 2008 study found that a period of abrupt sea - ice loss could lead to rapid soil thaw, as far as 900 miles inland.

Pokrovsky predicts a further acceleration of melting of the thin ice and in general greater ice loss compared to his June prediction; this change is based on the increase in the sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in the North Atlantic and the presence of hot air masses over Siberia and the Russian Arctic.

Further, Figure 4 shows a major loss of sea ice extent through May; contributions to the loss were especially important from the Barents Sea and northern Baffin Bay (Figure sea ice extent through May; contributions to the loss were especially important from the Barents Sea and northern Baffin Bay (Figure Sea and northern Baffin Bay (Figure 5).

Further, it only took one month of persistent wind conditions to slow the rate of sea ice loss, resulting in an increase in 2009 sea ice extent compared to 2007 and 2008.

In this case, the dramatic loss of sea ice could tip the Arctic Ocean into a permanent, nearly ice - free state in summer, with repercussions that may extend far beyond the Arctic.

Satellite pictures (below) clearly show that the recent loss of winter Arctic ice has occurred along the pathway by which warmer waters enter the Barents Sea, deep inside the Arctic Circle, while simultaneously air temperatures far to the south remain cold enough to maintain a frozen Hudson Bay.

And the decline has accelerated, becoming far more dramatic, since about the year 2000, leading to annual average sea ice loss of around three million square kilometers.

To summarise the arguments presented so far concerning ice - loss in the arctic basin, at least four mechanisms must be recognised: (i) a momentum - induced slowing of winter ice formation, (ii) upward heat - flux from anomalously warm Atlantic water through the surface low ‐ salinity layer below the ice, (iii) wind patterns that cause the export of anomalous amounts of drift ice through the Fram Straits and disperse pack - ice in the western basin and (iv) the anomalous flux of warm Bering Sea water into the eastern Arctic of the mid 1990s.

Melt of the Greenland ice sheet is further enhanced by a prolonged inflow of warm, moist air traced back to Arctic sea ice loss.

However, much of the evidence put forward thus far has shown correlations between sea ice loss and particular weather patterns, but has not revealed the direct physical connections and causation between the two, leading many mainstream climate scientists to be skeptical of the work so far.

They determined, however, that this volume had now increased by a further 3 cubic miles each year, prompted by an acceleration in the rate at which the ice caps and glaciers are melting.Unlike what many other scientists have said — including, most prominently, NASA's James Hansen (who believes that a rise in 17 inches by 2100 will be mainly precipitated by the melting of ice sheets)-- the authors of this study believe that the loss of ice from glaciers and ice caps will account for the majority of the expected rise in sea levels.

Serreze explained that as sea ice declines because of warmer temperatures, the loss of ice is likely to lead to still - further ice losses.

Secretary Salazar has so far defended the Bush - era «threatened» designation, claiming that threats to the species are only of concern in the future — notwithstanding the fact that polar bears are already drowning and starving as a result of sea - ice loss, with many populations declining.

Now the increased ice loss is going to give us a sea surface rise of 32 cm by 2050 and, according to Hansen, the probability of a further 4.7 metre rise in the 45 years to 2095.

When a full - depth ocean model is used, something intriguing happens: the loss of Arctic sea ice triggers a far - flung response that mimics climate change itself, including a slowdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a build - up of heat in the tropical oceans over several decades, and a warming of the atmosphere a few miles above the tropics.

In other words, rapid loss of sea ice and a warming Arctic will undoubtedly have far - reaching and serious effects for everyone.