Sentences with phrase «how sea ice thickness»

Our future work will assess how sea ice thickness loss contributes to the large - scale atmospheric circulation (see more).

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New way of measuring sea ice thickness could help assess how sea ice is affected by climate change

This is because the «early camp» are missing a major factor, even though most of them don't know it: That factor is that first year sea ice will continue to grow to thicknesses of around 1.5 to 2m through the winter, so the key issue in whether September can be virtually sea - ice free is how much sea ice can be lost between March and September.

I sent some questions to some of the authors of the new study showing how much the thickness and total volume of Arctic sea ice have declined since 2003.

Predicting sea ice extent is easy if you can mentally calculate wind variations, momentum, sea currents, multi year ice compression ratios, tidal synergy with weather patterns, the AO, the temperature of ice sea water and air, how cloudy it will be, salinity, pycnocline convection rates, sea surface to air interface, CO2 exchange, ice thickness distributions.....

• How can improved estimates of sea ice thickness help improve seasonal predictions of sea ice conditions?

With regard to proxy studies, same basic questions, are these direct or passive correlations, what evidence that tree ring core thickness depends only on temperature (what about precipitation, cloud cover, volcanic activity, sea surface temperatue changes, sea current changes, solar irradiance changes, cloud cover, etc.) How are these variables accounted for when analysis of ice cores is completed, or for that matter when computer models, and / or proxy studies are completed.

This SMOS thickness map reveals how thin the recently refrozen sea ice on the Atlantic side still is: