Sentences with phrase «ice breakup year»

All of which indicates 2017 won't be an early sea ice breakup year for WHB polar bears.

Not exact matches

«Within a few months» of a breakup, explains glaciologist Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the glacier «accelerates significantly, and within a year or two, it can be moving [toward the ocean] up to four times as fast as it moved when the ice shelf was intact.&raqIce Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the glacier «accelerates significantly, and within a year or two, it can be moving [toward the ocean] up to four times as fast as it moved when the ice shelf was intact.&raqice shelf was intact.»

While the breakup and slipping of ice sheets is a small part of sea rise now, he wrote last year, it could easily accelerate under the heating from a «business as usual» path for emissions.

With this unofficial time, this year places 4th earliest for the breakup of ice in the Tanana river.

-- There is a discrepancy between the above map showing the retreat of the ice breakup points and the NASA map over 150 years (7 MB.

Negative interactions between polar bears and humans, such as bears foraging in garbage dumps, have historically been more prevalent in years when ice - floe breakup occurred early and polar bears were relatively thin.

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.

The tipping point was 1998, after which the trend has been later ice breakups, at a rate of about half of a day per year.

Although they never knew exactly when it would happen, they had come to expect and prepare for ice breakups, which have become more common in recent years.

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.

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.

Breakup for Western Hudson Bay (WHB) is looking to be later than usual this year, given that the average breakup date since 1991 has been July 1 (using a 30 % threshold)-- only a few days from now — and the ice in WHB is nowhere near 50 % coverage, let alonBreakup for Western Hudson Bay (WHB) is looking to be later than usual this year, given that the average breakup date since 1991 has been July 1 (using a 30 % threshold)-- only a few days from now — and the ice in WHB is nowhere near 50 % coverage, let alonbreakup date since 1991 has been July 1 (using a 30 % threshold)-- only a few days from now — and the ice in WHB is nowhere near 50 % coverage, let alone 30 %.

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.