Sentences with phrase «ice cap concentration»
Dr. Will Chapman's Cryosphere Today web page offers an archive of daily polar sea ice cap concentrations (1979 — present) at:
http://www.realclimate.org/ Not exact matches
Nevertheless, the record - low sea ice concentration is consistent with a shrinking ice - cap due to a warming.
They argued that high CO2 concentrations explained the polar warmth and the decline in CO2 explained the advent of polar ice caps and the 55 million year trend towards our icehouse climate.
In Northeast Land and Svalbard, the melting waters on the ice caps are the tears of the Earth mourning the future death of men and civilizations as the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere spikes and global warming proceeds rapidly, killing millions of marine organisms, and increasing the acidification of the oceans.
If you watch the NRL Hycom animations (sequences of daily arctic ice concentration) or look at velocity maps, a lot of the arctic cap flows south.
If we could see ahead to 2111, when the temperature (anomaly) is 3º C instead of 0ºC and the CO2 concentration is approaching 600 ppm, when the ice caps are gone and Greenland is called whatever might be the Chinese word for breadbasket, we couldn't tell whether the climate change was natural or anthropogenic.
NASA even states that when they lowered the CO2 concentration again, their model reproduced a nice ice cap over the Arctic Ocean, which implies Arctic ice loss is not irreversible — although that conclusion is highly theoretical:
The fact that the earth appears to have gone through huge changes in atmospheric CO2 concentration over geologic eras, while the estimated temps went from 12degC to 22 deg C regardless of «Snowball Earth» or «Cretaceous Hot House» with both hot and cold periods occurring during both high and low CO2 regimes and both with and without ice caps argues very strongly that we do not understand the climate mechanism at all.
At more than 400 parts per million, we're already well beyond dangerous levels of carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere, as climbing temperatures, melting ice caps, and extreme weather events have made clear.
These OMITTED / POORLY Represented processes include the following: oceanic eddies, tides, fronts, buoyancy - driven coastal and boundary currents, cold halocline, dense water plumes and convection, double diffusion, surface / bottom mixed layer, sea ice — thickness distribution, concentration, deformation, drift and export, fast ice, snow cover, melt ponds and surface albedo, atmospheric loading, clouds and fronts, ice sheets / caps and mountain glaciers, permafrost, river runoff, and air — sea ice — land interactions and coupling.