Sentences with phrase «ice changes affect»

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«I think maybe we added a burden to Ryan when we made him captain that affected him on and off the ice and kind of changed his own perception of himself.

you can change leagues and affect the passing, pace, link up and strength of a player but you cant change his finishing and belotti is ice - cold.

The findings indicate the ice sheets are less stable than previously thought, and could be strongly affected by climate change.

Studying surging glaciers could also offer insights into grander - scale ice flows with global consequences: the movements of the ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland, which can change abruptly, altering the ice discharges that affect sea level.

Polar bears, the poster - child for climate change, are among the animals most affected by the seasonal and year - to - year changes in Arctic sea ice, because they rely on this surface for essential activities such as hunting, traveling and breeding.

Sea ice and glaciers are melting, permafrost is thawing, tundra is yielding to shrubs — and scientists are struggling to understand how these changes will affect not just the Arctic but the entire planet

Reporting this week in the journal Nature Climate Change Dr Hogg and Dr Gudmundsson, examine the events leading up to this dramatic natural phenomenon and discuss how calving of huge icebergs affects the stability of Antarctic ice shelves.

Understanding what's causing the changes in the ice shelves «puts us a little bit closer to knowing what's going to happen to the grounded ice, which is what will ultimately affect sea - level rise,» Fricker said.

Climate change is a shift in overall global temperatures and weather, and it is already affecting ice sheets and glaciers across the globe.

Ice loss caused by climate change is opening up the Arctic, and it looks like the competition to take advantage has the potential to destroy the region and affect the entire planet.

And at high global latitudes, cold lakes normally covered by ice in the winter are seeing less ice year after year — a change that could affect all parts of the food web, from algae to freshwater seals.

If the melting of the polar ice caps injects great amounts of freshwater into the world's oceans, climate scientists fear that the influx could affect currents enough to drastically change the weather on land

«Retreating sea ice linked to changes in ocean circulation, could affect European climate.»

In general, Antarctic sea ice is much more variable than the Arctic, and scientists are still grappling with how climate change and various natural climate cycles might be interacting to affect sea ice levels there.

The researchers warn, however, that the future evolution of the AMO remains uncertain, with many factors potentially affecting how it interacts with atmospheric circulation patterns, such as Arctic sea ice loss, changes in solar radiation, volcanic eruptions and concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

How climate change will affect the summer ice in the NWP in the future, however, is difficult to predict, says Haas.

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

The researchers combined data gathered from the buoys between 2002 and 2015 with satellite estimates of ice thickness in this region to better understand changes affecting the Arctic Ocean in recent years.

Understanding how that would affect the climate will require going beyond historical records of climate change, or even the information encoded in tree rings or ice cores, to what scientists call «deep time» records of conditions on Earth, according to a new NAS analysis.

«The main result supports and extends earlier work, showing that human forcing contributes to changing winds that contribute to subsurface ocean warming, affecting some grounding zones of the ice sheet,» Alley said.

Colgan argues that a good first step would be to conduct more research on how climate change could affect the ice sheet and its buried hazards.

The overarching goal for Bindschadler and many other Antarctic researchers is to hand off enough data to modelers so they can figure out how the Antarctic ice is going to change in the coming decades, and how those changes will affect the rest of the world.

It could be a change in algae or other food for them, or it could be that sea ice provides shelter from predators, or affects the currents in some way.

Furthermore, we must understand how changes in sea ice cover affect the feeding ecology of humpback whales and their competitors in the short - term and the dynamics of krill populations over the longer term, particularly given the increasing pressure from commercial krill harvests [36].

«Considering that the surface is moving much faster than we had previously thought, it could also affect things like the stability of the ice caps and help us to understand past climate change.»

More seriously though, and changing the subject, the «cold blob» is only anomalously «cold» because it's largely relocated from an even colder area where its temperature is not relatively coldly anomalous, and in fact is warmly anomalous where it represents meltwater from ice affected by heat brought in from the tropics.

This study links a framework for global and local sea - level rise projections with simulations of two major mechanisms by which climate change can affect the vast Antarctic ice sheet.

This kind of significant change could increase the rate of warming already in progress, affect further sea ice loss in the Arctic and alter shipping access to the Arctic Ocean.

«The region is profoundly affected by climate change — including loss of sea ice, acidification of the ocean, and increased access for industries that pose significant risks to the ocean environment.»

While it is often occurring in remote regions, ongoing change with the cryosphere has impacts on people all around the world: sea level rise affects coastlines globally, billions of people rely on water from snowpack, and the diminishing sea ice that covers the Arctic Ocean plays a significant role in Earth's climate and weather patterns.

Clearly, these two different regions will have very different responses to climate and oceanic change, and these differences will affect sea ice response.

Often called the Third Pole due to how much ice and snow accumulates there, the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau are the source of major rivers in nearby countries and changes to them can affect the largest populations in China and India.

Now that the work has been done to combine these airborne measurements, Schroeder said he plans to expand this type analysis to other glaciers, a move that could improve scientists» understanding of the hidden ways climate change is affecting ice.

Such research is now becoming urgent as regional climate change is already impacting upon areas of West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula [30] and colonies in this region may already be affected by the consequent loss of sea ice [8].

Regional variations arise because the Earth's gravity field is affected in multiple ways by the melt of ice, due to the direct effect of surface mass changes (the gravity field is determined by the distribution of mass), the consequent deformation of the Solid Earth (removing a load causes the Earth's surface to rebound, which in turn changes the distribution of the Earth's mass), the consequent redistribution of ocean water (the ocean surface is shaped by the gravity filed) and perturbations of the Earth's rotation axis (because of mass redistribution).

How will albedo changes, increased rainfall and melt in Greenland affect ice degradation?

The change in ice volume and climate changes the planets albedo (how much sunlight is reflected) and affect carbon storage.

Surely the melting Arctic ice cap is changing the salinity of the northern Atlantic and could affect this circulation as well.

This raises the possibility that changes in sea level can profoundly affect the S.Hem ice — wasting of N.Hem ice sheets can raise sea level, «unpin» and destabilize the S.Hem ice, helping make the changes global.

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

Reductions in sea ice and other changes may affect the amount of Carbon Dioxide absorbed by the Arctic Ocean, while thawing permafrost is expected to increase emissions of methane.

What other things in the Earth system will change when it warms up that will affect how much SW radiation is reflected back into space [eg ice - albedo feedback, cloud changes] or affect what proportion of emitted LW radiation is allowed to escape to space [eg Water Vapour, cloud changes].

In many regions, changing precipitation or melting snow and ice are altering hydrological systems, affecting water resources in terms of quantity and quality (medium confidence).

How would this change in currents affect the amount of heat in the surface layer that is transported into the Arctic and contributes to melting the Arctic Sea Ice?

Researchers are confident that they understand the cycle of Ice Ages, and they also have a clear idea that the biosphere plays a hand in keeping the planet at liveable temperatures, but they also know that the high altitudes are more than usually affected by climate change driven by ever - higher ratios of greenhouse gases released by the combustion of fossil fuels by seven billion humans.

Climate alarm depends on several gloomy assumptions — about how fast emissions will increase, how fast atmospheric concentrations will rise, how much global temperatures will rise, how warming will affect ice sheet dynamics and sea - level rise, how warming will affect weather patterns, how the latter will affect agriculture and other economic activities, and how all climate change impacts will affect public health and welfare.

While the changes in both the mean and higher order statistical moments (e.g., variance) of time - series of climate variables affect the frequency of relatively simple extremes (e.g., extreme high daily or monthly temperatures, damaging winds), changes in the frequency of more complex extremes are based on changes in the occurrence of complex atmospheric phenomena (e.g., hurricanes, tornadoes, ice storms).

While it's important to know the volume of an ice sheet - or how much space it takes up - it can change without affecting the amount of ice that is present.

Relatively rapid degradation of ice - rich permafrost is adversely affecting human infrastructure, altering Arctic ecosystem structure and function, changing the surface energy balance, and has the potential to dramatically impact Arctic hydrological process and increase greenhouse gas emissions.

The magnitude and spatial distribution of the high - latitude climate changes can be strongly affected by sea ice characteristics, but evaluation of sea ice in models is hampered by insufficient observations of some key variables (e.g., ice thickness)(see Section 4.4).