Sentences with phrase «ice breakup on»

Regehr, E. V., N. J. Lunn, S. C. Amstrup, and I. Stirling, 2007: Effects of earlier sea ice breakup on survival and population size of polar bears in western Hudson Bay.

Summer ice breakup on western Hudson's Bay now occurs two weeks earlier than it did 20 years ago, and killer whales have moved their hunting into the bay.

A similar trend is seen with extremely early ice breakup on the Torne.

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Warm mountain winds are causing extensive winter melting on the surface of the Larsen C ice shelf, which could contribute to its breakup

The full effects of ice shelf breakup on glacier demise will not be known for some time.

The breakup and melting of floating ice has no direct effect on global sea levels.

While researchers quickly linked the breakup to lakes of meltwater that had accumulated on the so - called Larsen B ice shelf's upper surface and then wedged apart deep crevasses, they hadn't come up with a convincing explanation for what triggered the collapse.

«My fieldwork with the support of the InBev - Baillet Latour Fellowship will shed light on which processes are responsible for this ice shelf breakup, thereby improving the estimates how, when and where East Antarctica is most vulnerable to global warming.»

«My fieldwork with the support of the InBev - Baillet Latour Fellowship will shed light on which processes are responsible for this ice shelf breakup, thereby improving the estimates how, when and where East Antarctica is most vulnerable to global warming» said Lenaerts.

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Arriving in New York City following a nasty breakup, Slevin gets mugged while he's practically still on the airport tarmac; shortly thereafter, this hapless (and newly walletless) innocent winds up being mistaken for the deadbeat pal in whose apartment he's crashing, targeted by not one but two ice - cold criminal kingpins — archrivals, no less, who've spent the last two decades malevolently eyeing each other from matching penthouse suites situated just a few blocks apart.

At the most fundamental level, polar bears depend on ice to survive so, if we continue to lose ice, and have progressively earlier breakups and freeze - ups, then it will be hard on bears over the longer term.

This flow of ice, fed by the continuous formation of new ice on land and culminating in the breakup of the shelves on the outer fringe and the calving of icebergs, is not new.

«Even though we don't see immediate evidence of ice shelf breakup on the Ross Ice Shelf, everything we've seen up to this point has occurred faster than we expectice shelf breakup on the Ross Ice Shelf, everything we've seen up to this point has occurred faster than we expectIce Shelf, everything we've seen up to this point has occurred faster than we expected.

Beyond the present danger, scientists warn that — unless the issue of climate change is addressed — we could see the breakup of larger ice shelves, which could have a destabilizing effect on the entire region and possibly the world.

Comments Off on Breakup of sea ice on track in Canada as critical feeding period for polar bears ends

Relative to recent years and potential impacts on polar bear health and survival in Canada, there is nothing alarming in the pattern or speed of sea ice breakup for 2017, either over Hudson Bay, the southern Beaufort, or the eastern high Arctic.

Losses from surface melting, water runoff, the breakup of glaciers into the ocean (calving), and the transformation of solid ice into water vapor (sublimation) exceed any gains through snowfall.2, 3,4,5 The Greenland ice sheet loses most of its mass on the perimeter, through a dozen fast - moving glaciers, including Helheim.5, 6

Even watching the annual ice breakup is a few weeks, but the problem on the West Antarctic ice sheet is that it is building up less every year.

The strong warming of the Antarctic Peninsula has led to the breakup of large ice shelves whose presence tended to impede the oceanward flow of mountain glaciers on the peninsula.

IMO, the strongest argument for sea ice decline over the last decade for being unusual and at least in part attributable to global warming is this (from Polyakov et al.): The severity of present ice loss can be highlighted by the breakup of ice shelves at the northern coast of Ellesmere Island, which have been stable until recently for at least several thousand years based on geological data.