Sentences with phrase «gauging ice trends»

The goal, the scientists say, is to compare independent methods of gauging ice trends from factors including sea temperature, ice thickness and cycles of atmospheric pressure and winds around the Arctic.

Not exact matches

1) Most tide gauges show rising trends since the Little Ice Age suggesting natural causes have dominated.

Indeed, if we closely look back at the map of the «rising» /» falling» tide gauges in Figure 8, we can see that some areas which would have been under or near the ice sheets during the glacial era show mostly «falling» trends (e.g., Fennoscandia in northern Europe, Alaska in US), while neighbouring areas show mostly «rising» trends (e.g., the parts of northern Europe south of Fennoscandia, northeastern North America).

But it seems to me using the amount of sea ice at any one time in the Arctic as some sort of gauge for existence of warming or cooling or to determine a trend in temperatures in anything but long time scales is folly.

Melting Arctic sea ice, shrinking glaciers, and increased rate of Antarctic ice flow, these are, I think, far more reliable and objective gauges to long - term climate trends than are local temperature measurements.