Sentences with phrase «ice concentration areas»

Colors like yellow and lavender indicating higher concentrations come and go, but weak ice concentration areas indicated by green tend to stick around.

Not exact matches

The start - up's premiere product, the Thin Ice vest, uses cold therapy to target areas of the body with high concentrations of thermoreceptors, which are nerve cells that are able to detect the presence of hot or cold temperatures.

A new University of Colorado Boulder study comparing dissolved black carbon deposition on ice and snow in ecosystems around the world (including Antarctica, the Arctic, and alpine regions of the Himalayas, Rockies, Andes, and Alps) shows that while concentrations vary widely, significant amounts can persist in both pristine and non-pristine areas of snow.

The Mars Express observations hint at greater methane concentrations over areas containing subsurface water ice.

This week, Arctic sea ice extent - that is, the total ocean area in which the ice concentration is at least 15 percent - was at 1.96 million square miles.

The most common indicator is the atmospheric background CO2 concentration, the global mean temperature, the global mean sea level, and the area with snow or Arctic sea ice.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

``... sea ice concentration (SIC) data * of AMSR - E standard products are used for area calculation.

Sea ice extent is defined by the area in which ice concentration exceeds 15 percent.

Light blues and greens in ocean areas indicate areas of low ice concentration.

Sea ice extent is defined as the surface area enclosed by the sea ice edge (where sea ice concentration falls below 15 %).

One of the difficulties using charts based on in situ observations is that there was very little exploration poleward of the «marginal ice zone» (the area of partial sea ice cover near the ice edge), so in older reconstructions the ice concentration was often assumed to be 100 % beyond the marginal zone.

Ice - covered areas range in color from white (highest concentration) to light blue (lowest concentration).

A note of caution: To avoid erroneous ice concentration along coasts (satellite signal mixed from land and ocean), near coastal - areas have to be excluded.

Annual Antarctic sea ice extent (total area of at least 15 % ice concentration) for selected years since 1979.

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

As the BRT stated, «Research suggests that, during the time of whelping and nursing, bearded seals prefer areas where the percent concentration of sea ice is > 25 %.

A 40 % concentration cutoff; open water areas could have sea ice at concentrations less than 40 %.

Note a 40 % concentration cutoff is used in the ice age maps, which means that ice still could be present in areas shown as «open water (OW)».

This is consistent with both the June and July (Figure 3) ensemble predictions from a coupled ice - ocean model submitted by Zhang, which show considerably more ice in the East Siberian Sea compared to 2009, and it is consistent with the June statistical forecasts submitted by Tivy, which also predict a greater ice area than in 2009 and above - normal ice concentrations along the coasts.

Note open water developing off Siberian and North American coastlines, and areas of low ice concentration in the central Arctic for the same day as seen in visible - range MODIS imagery (right panel, NASA MODIS Rapid Response System).

Lighter than 2009: Petrich (break - up of fast ice around Barrow), Tivy (ice area), Zhang (regional pattern of ice concentration)

2012's sea ice area and extent were already trending low this year, but damage done to the thin and low concentration of ice by this storm almost ensures that 2012 will eclipse 2007 in all categories as the lowest sea ice on record by the time the September low is set.

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

Extent here is defined as the total area of ice with concentration (over an area of at least 100 square kilometers) greater than 15 %.

The fourth core, Core PS2138 - 2, is located at the Barents Sea continental margin, an area with a seasonal sea ice cover and a strong influence of warm Atlantic Water inflow today (Fig. 1; ca. 4/10 summer sea ice concentration).

The most important color on the Bremen map is the green areas, because this indicates when the ice concentration level drops below 70 %.

Core PS2757 - 8 is located on the southern Lomonosov Ridge close to the Laptev Sea continental margin, an area that is predominantly covered by sea ice (Fig. 1; 7/10 summer sea ice concentration) but may occasionally be even ice - free during summer.

Another difference is that in 2013 there were areas of decreased concentration north of the Kara and Barents sea; this year, most of the Arctic sea ice prevails at higher concentrations, indicating a more consolidated and possibly thicker ice cover, which is more resilient to melt and retreat.

The «Temperature Departure From Average» map below further reveals the areas of concentration for climate engineering orchestrated chemical cool - downs and sea surface chemical ice nucleation (also fueling extreme hail events).

In examining ice area — the extent weighted by concentration — the seasonal minimum in 2008 was nearly identical to that of 2007.

At the end of the melt season, there was a considerable area of low - concentration (and likely relatively thin) sea ice near the ice edge, particularly in the northern Beaufort / Chukchi Seas.

The region of ice concentration > 60 % on August 5 from MyOcean (TOPAZ4 model) was used as a predictor variable, and a linear regression was performed of September NSIDC extent vs. > 60 % concentration area on August 5.

Greenland, Siberia, and Antarctica, should be noted as climate engineering concentration areas due to the grave ramifications posed by the melting ice and / or frozen methane deposits in these regions.

Very early in the season this whole area already exhibited a significantly lower sea ice concentration that accentuated throughout the summer season.

When NSIDC are calculating the concentrations for a particular grid cell, they calculate both the area covered by ice and the length of time the ice was there.

Earlier studies have predominately focused on the loss of sea ice concentration (fraction of ice within an area) and therefore the total sea ice extent (Fig. 1).

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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.

Extent is defined as the total area in which the ice concentration is at least 15 percent.

The area around the North Pole is ice - covered — an assumption confirmed by many airborne and ice - surface expeditions — but researchers use an average of the concentration just outside the gap to estimate the extent within.

I use three variables (land snow cover, ice concentration, ice area) that are available in June, in a formula which shows particularly strong correlation with Sept sea ice extent.

To be consistent with the validating sea ice extent index from NSIDC, if possible, please first compute the average sea ice concentration for the month and then compute the extent as the sum of cell areas > 15 %.

Once the ice barrier at the top of the strait gives way, ice from the Arctic Ocean can spill over into this region, affecting navigation, but also providing a mechanism to reduce ice concentrations in an area of very thick ice in the high Arctic.

Top panels: 50 % annual sea ice concentration (dashed blue line) and buoyancy fluxes, where negative values (blue shading) are associated with sea ice formation; note that these areas expand equatorward in the LGM simulation.

If you look at the above link you'll notice a round wide open expanse of water along the Gakkel Ridge, in an area of ice concentration that is otherwise at much higher concentrations.

The heuristic forecast submitted by Howell in June is unchanged; below average concentrations of multi-year ice in the area will facilitate clearing.

This chart, from Gagné et al, shows the area - averaged annual mean sea ice concentration anomaly between 1950 and 2005.

Scientists at NSIDC report extent because they are cautious about summertime values of ice concentration and area taken from satellite sensors.