Sentences with phrase «ice area remained»

Despite temperatures at the beginning of 2017 not being record - breaking the sea ice area remained much lower than average during the first three months of the year, with January showing the lowest negative anomaly on record - 600,000 square kilometres below the 1981 - 2010 average for January.

The global sea ice area remaining unshrunk DOES NOT mean that ice is not melting.

Not exact matches

Ice packs, rinsing with lukewarm water and a sitz bath will help to ease the pain and ensure that the area remains clean even after mama and baby go home.

Although the Empire State Plaza remained closed this winter — the ice skating rink shuttered, and make shift gates around the entrances because the state couldn't afford to staff the area — the Republican controlled Senate decided it was important to introduce a bill that would allow the display of Christmas trees in public offices and government buildings.

The crack remained dormant for decades, stuck in a section of the ice shelf called a suture zone, an area where glaciers flowing into the ice shelf come together.

Some of the ice may remain in the area for decades, while parts of the iceberg may drift north into warmer waters,» he added.

The fact that reflectivity decreased in areas with dark water was not surprising, but there also was a decrease in reflectivity with remaining sea ice.

Some of the ice may remain in the area for decades, while parts of the iceberg may drift north into warmer waters.»

In the autumn adult krill migrate from offshore and continental shelf areas to inshore habitats where they remain through winter under the protective cover of sea ice [4].

Nonetheless, the ice - sheet response to global warming remains an area of what risk analysts call «deep uncertainty».

Then, we predict the summer ice area depending on the assumption that thick ice remains later and thin ice melts sooner than the average.

If the temperature stays below minus 243 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 153 degrees Celsius), the area is a cold trap - a good place for water ice to accumulate and remain stable.

The area of summer sea ice remaining during 2007 - 2009 was about 40 % less than the average projection from the 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.

Volume will also decrease faster than area initially, but volumetric decrease will slow as less ice remains (simple mathematics).

The ice business hasn't operated here since 1907, but the area remains an important habitat for beavers and the like.

Paul D... As a part - time alarmist I would answer that with a little bit of extrapolation added to some warnings of climate scientists I guess the worst case scenario at least includes the total collapse of the WAIS, creating tsunamis at least all over the Pacific rim, the subsequent sea level rise of c. 7m will destroy most of the remaining harbours, communication centers near coasts, next up would be the melting of the collapsed ice in the southern ocean altering the climate of the entire southern hemisphere, making it near - impossible to guess what areas are good for similar agriculture as before, leading to massive movements of people.

«Only five large ice shelves remain in Arctic Canada, covering less than a tenth of the area than they did a century ago.»

While in theoretical and mathematical terms, ice area could remain constant; in physical and practical terms, it will not.

Of course there are interrelations — I understand that a lot of energy (& heat) goes into melting ice, and the area (water, air) remains cool up until all / most the ice is melted, then the water and air are «free» to rise rapidly in temp to their new equilibrium (according to whatever the particular GW forces are).

All reputable scientists in this area know and acknowledge that there remain uncertainties with respect to climate sensitivity (how warm, how fast in response to a given level of GHGs)-- indeed that's where most of the research is going — along with a better understanding of the speed of impacts (e.g. ice loss).

As of September 5, sea ice extent remains below average everywhere except for a small area within the Laptev Sea.

The heat source isn't new or increasing, but may help explain why the ice sheet collapsed so rapidly in an earlier area of climate change and remains unstable.

«If human - driven climate change continues unabated, the last ice areas will ultimately disappear, and the remaining wild bears with them,» he says.

«My prediction remains that the Arctic ice may well disappear, that is, have an area of less than one million square kilometres for September of this year,» he said.

The only comprehensive study of the Antarctic Ice Sheet mass was a 10 + year study based on continuous 24/365 satellite measurements over the period 1993 to 2003, covering 80 % of the AIS with estimates from other methods for the remaining 20 %, which can not be measured by satellites (coastal areas and polar regions).

Then it said «If the general positive trend in Atlantic heat input remains, winter cooling will likely be insufficient to produce ice over an increasing area, leading to further «Atlantification» of the Barents Sea.»

Extensive areas of first - year ice remain in the East Siberian and Laptev Seas (Figures 1 and 2).

Maslanik, Rigor et al., Pokrovsky (June report), Tivy (June report)-- below normal ice area overall, but high concentration may remain along the coast

Maslanik, Tivy, Pokrovsky — below - normal ice area overall, but high concentration may remain along the coast in the southern Beaufort and Chukchi Seas

Will much of this ice remain in the central basin to rebuild the area of old, perennial sea ice over the coming years?

The drastic melt of 2007 remains the record loss of ice area in the satellite era, although subsequent years have still been below the long - term average.

«The current rate of sea ice loss, and the reduced thickness of large areas of the ice remaining, suggests that we may see yet another record minimum in summer sea ice extent this year.»

At the beginning of July, ice concentrations in the region remain high, 9-10/10, with some small areas of open water along the southern route.

But in the last 20 years, observers have measured the successive losses to large areas of the Larsen ice shelf off the Antarctic Peninsula, and these have resulted in an alarming acceleration of glacial flow on land, even though Antarctica remains the coldest continent on Earth.

The ambient temperature can remain the same and heat will still transfer to a cooler area (e.g. a glacier or ice cube).

But this land area within the 81 north «cap» (like that of central Ellesmere Island), remains ice covered and does not change the analysis by more than 2 %.

«This means an inevitable death for the ice cover, because the summer retreat is now accelerated by the fact that the huge areas of open water already generated allow storms to generate big waves which break up the remaining ice and accelerate its melt,» Wadhams said.

Warm water can rapidly melt exposed ice in areas where the climate remains extremely cold.

Volume will also decrease faster than area initially, but volumetric decrease will slow as less ice remains (simple mathematics).

Derek J. Taylor, a member of the team, attributes the counterintuitive finding to the fact that pockets of the species were preserved in limited areas that remained ice - free during glacial advances.

With such a small habitat remaining — which WWF estimates will cover less than 500,000 square miles — the few remaining polar bears in the Last Ice Area will be in close competition with each other for hunting grounds.

In the Last Ice Area, the small remaining populations of these species will be forced together along a narrow strip of sea iIce Area, the small remaining populations of these species will be forced together along a narrow strip of sea iceice.

Lindsay and Zhang (University of Washington); 4.1 ± 0.4; Statistical The best predictor remains the area with less than 1.0 m of ice, with an r2 value of 0.823.

In addition, previous Outlooks predicted an open Northern Sea Route, but the latest Outlook shows some ice remains in the area and may persist through the end of summer.

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Remain alert and slow it down when approaching off - ramps, intersections, off - ramps or bridges as these are all common areas for black ice.