Sentences with phrase «greater sea ice extent»

(6) This study came out around the same time that we are observing greater sea ice extent.

Rather it claims that decreased ozone increases the velocity of the circumpolar vortex, thus breaking up pack ice and allowing more ice to form at the surface, thereby contributing to greater sea ice extent.

Not exact matches

This year's record low sea ice maximum extent might not necessarily lead to a new record low summertime minimum extent, since weather has a great impact on the melt season's outcome, Meier said.

According to the most recent Arctic Report Card, winter has been losing sea ice at a rate of 2.6 percent per decade, while the summer extent has decreased at an even greater rate of 13.3 percent per decade.

Northern sea ice, at its greatest extent this winter, was more extensive than last year.

By contrast, true Ice Ages drastically reshaped the planet, with much greater changes in global temperature, sea level, and ice exteIce Ages drastically reshaped the planet, with much greater changes in global temperature, sea level, and ice exteice extent.

Arctic sea ice extent will be 500000 sq kilometers greater this year than last.

Earlier this year, I was among the first to bet that sea ice extent at minimum this year would be greater than last year; I'll now predict that sea ice extent next year at minimum will be greater than this year.

Cloud coverage is the biggest player in this case, without will make a great melt, or if not, totally save sea ice extent from collapsing further.

The decrease has been greatest during summer, with sea ice extent reducing by around 12 % per decade since the satellite record began in 1979.

Aspin et al., 4.0, Heuristic Sea ice extent is greater on 05 June 2013 than a year ago, however ice thicknesses and volumes are, on average, the lowest on record.

Because walrus avoid ice - covered waters where sea ice concentration is 80 % or greater, any heavy ice concentrations reduce the areal extent of walrus foraging habitat.

This paper would indicate the greatest factor in sea ice extent is ocean heat transport.

The spread of Outlook contributions suggests about a 29 % chance of reaching a new September sea ice minimum in 2010 and only an 18 % chance of an extent greater than the 2009 minimum (or a return to the long - term trend for summer sea ice loss).

When there is less summer sea ice extent, the rebound to the following Spring maximum is greater.

There are no radical departures in this report from the previous assessment, published in 2007; just a great deal more evidence demonstrating the extent of global temperature rises, the melting of ice sheets and sea ice, the retreat of the glaciers, the rising and acidification of the oceans and the changes in weather patterns (3).

I predict minimum sea extent will be the same or greater than 2014, with a continued recovery of sea ice volume.

In contrast, sea ice in 2008 (Fig. 4) has a slightly greater extent than 2007 and not all first - year sea ice that formed in winter 2008 melted out during the summer, providing a basis for forming second - year sea ice during winter 2009 and beyond.

A key question was: were there systematic or physical changes that contributed to a greater observed sea ice extent this year or was it within the range of natural variability?

The following maps show the probability of encountering September sea ice at concentrations greater than 15 % (corresponding to ice extent as commonly defined) in a particular grid cell.

Arctic «sea ice extent has varied naturally over the decades with some Russian data suggesting similar or even greater ice loss in some local areas in the 1930s» — Analysis of Arctic ice: «Russian data shows that the [Arctic] ice was just as thin in 1940 as it is now.

We compared 23,000 days of observations in those records with late twentieth - century observations, and concluded that the extent of the sea ice at the end of winter was pretty much the same in the nineteenth and late twentieth century, but that the end - of - summer Arctic sea ice retreat is greater today than it was then.

While the ensemble forecast indicates an absence of significant atmospheric circulation anomalies over the western Arctic, high pressure features over the Barents sea appear to be conducive to greater ice extent reductions along the Eurasian side.

This being the same Steven Goddard who wrote that hilarious article attempting to prove that the arctic sea ice extent was greater relative to 2007 than NSIDC was reporting, by counting pixels on JPEGs of Google Earth images on the Cryosphere Today website.

With reduced September ice extent, the rebound to March maximum is strong, but with greater September sea ice extent the rebound to the next maximum is far less.

The sea ice extent has been greater than the 1979 to 2000 mean for all of 2012 and 2013 despite rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

The Antarctic sea ice extent is currently 1 million square km greater than the 1979 to 2000 mean.

Antarctic SEA ICE (yes Virginia, that's * floating * ice) extent is a bit greater than Arctic sea iSEA ICE (yes Virginia, that's * floating * ice) extent is a bit greater than Arctic sea isea ice.

-- «5 of the 6 years with the greatest Southern Hemisphere sea ice extent have occurred in just the last decade»

Not exactly at the south pole but Antarctic sea ice (floating stuff) extent is still 1 - 2 million k ^ 2 greater than Arctic sea ice.

lolwot, considering that 100 years ago appears to have been colder than normal, I would expect Arctic sea ice extent to be greater than normal in the past 100 years.

Alternatively, it may be the result of increased ocean heat transports due to either an enhanced thermohaline circulation (Raymo et al., 1989; Rind and Chandler, 1991) or increased flow of surface ocean currents due to greater wind stresses (Ravelo et al., 1997; Haywood et al., 2000), or associated with the reduced extent of land and sea ice (Jansen et al., 2000; Knies et al., 2002; Haywood et al., 2005).

Meanwhile, Arctic sea ice extent shattered the previous record low and the Greenland ice sheet saw the greatest melt in recorded history.

The use of a 15 % threshold on sea ice concentration captures greater detail within the marginal ice zone, matches NSIDC's threshold used for mapping overall sea ice extent and should therefore provide a better estimate of the September 2011 ice extent.

The Antarctic sea ice extent is the likewise by far the greatest ever measured — is the Antarctic ice signal also unequivocable?