Sentences with phrase «ice coverage»

The reason it is a mystery is because that increase in sea ice coverage is contrary to the theory of global warming.

But turning imagery of floating ice into reliable estimates of ice coverage remains a challenge.

Scientists explain the heat wave by pointing to a string of record - breaking hot months earlier this year, coupled with little ice coverage during the summer.

Reduced lake ice coverage, in turn, increases the amount of sunlight lakes absorb.

The year will rank as the fourth lowest ice coverage since space - based observations began in 1978.

The other type are analyses of the historical sea ice coverage over the last few thousand years.

The researchers plan to update their findings each year as new ice coverage data are available.

I compared current arctic ice coverage area with the last ten years.

The data to assess sea - ice coverage come from polar - orbiting satellites carrying passive - microwave sensors that can see through clouds.

The extent of global sea ice coverage reached its smallest area ever recorded in 2016, new data show.

The next week or so should be particularly interesting, because it was during this time last year that ice coverage fell at its most rapid pace.

During periods of extreme ice coverage, water mass shifts to the poles.

They contend polar bears are already being harmed by declines in summer sea ice coverage, or will be shortly.

So ice fields can be easily detected, and the fraction of ice coverage can be estimated.

Note how they neglect to mention the increased Arctic ice coverage for the last 2 years by looking back to earlier averages?

So if there is sea ice coverage for any part of the year, GISS will not use SST values to cover those cells for the entire year.

If the previous melt was localised around Spitzbergen, why hasn't he offered any evidence of extensive ice coverage elsewhere at the time?

Estimates of the Northern Hemisphere ice coverage at the height of the Last Glacial Maximum compared to modern summers.

The work on north - of - Greenland ice coverage hints that we're not quite as warm as it was in the Arctic, but we're on a trajectory to leave that in the dust.

Figure 18.7: Bars show decade averages of annual maximum Great Lakes ice coverage from the winter of 1962 - 1963, when reliable coverage of the entire Great Lakes began, to the winter of 2012 - 2013.

Something about the ice ages probably stimulated the brain enlargement, but neither average temperature nor average ice coverage seem likely to be the stimulus.

Finds that, following record ‐ minimum multiyear ice coverage in summer 2008, the total multiyear ice extent has increased to amounts consistent with the negative trend from 2001 — 2006, with an increasing proportion of older ice types

For Antarctica, the lowest maximum extent, recorded on September 12, follows a record low minimum sea ice coverage recorded on March 1 after the summer thaw, he said.

Images recovered from 50 - year - old Nimbus environmental satellites show record high sea ice coverage around Antarctica in 1964

They ran one set of simulations with Arctic ice coverage typical of recent years and another in which parameters in the model were set so that a much lower amount of sea ice formed each year.

Something about the ice ages probably stimulated the brain enlargement, but neither average temperature nor average ice coverage seem likely to be the stimulus.

I've already pointed you to data for Arctic sea ice coverage which contradicts the claim that ice cover was anywhere near as low as today.

Reconstruction of millennial changes in dust emission, transport and regional sea ice coverage using the deep EPICA ice cores fromthe Atlantic and Indian Ocean sector of Antarctica.

Arctic sea ice coverage continued its below - average trend this year as the ice declined to its annual minimum on Sept. 17, according to the NASA - supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

What confuddles me is this... why are both the poles showing increasing ice coverage if the ocean surface temps are so warm?

Prudence dictates that no serious student of climate change place much weight on transient events like ice coverage (or lack of it) until such transients become trends in their own right.

Among them: ice coverage time - lapse from 1978 - 2006 and 2007's ice retreat (the greatest ever recorded).

As shown within this Vinnikov slide show, V (1980) fig5 is a plot of the annual ice coverage for the months of July, August & September and not the plot of a 12 - month annual average.

March was the exception, but logged the second smallest ice coverage for that particular month.

That is how a value of 6 - 7 million sq km can be plotted for the period 1925 - 75 and how any grown - up splicing of more recent ice coverage would be plotting levels of 4 - 5 million sq km over the last ten years.