Sentences with phrase «ice coverage area»

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

Not exact matches

«If ice caps and glaciers were to continue to crack and break into pieces, [the amount of] their surface area that is exposed to air would be significantly increased, which could lead to accelerated melting and much - reduced coverage area on the Earth,» Buehler said in a statement.

The ice coverage on the Arctic Ocean shriveled last September to 1.32 million square miles, the smallest expanse ever recorded and less than half the area covered by sea ice three decades ago.

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

It seems clear to me that that mountain glaciers and permafrost are: 1 sensitive indicators of changes in temperature; 2 uncontaminated by urban heat islands; 3 have short response times (no problem with lagged response to Little Ice Age cooling); have wide geographical coverage (especially in remote areas).

Combined with a large decline in MY ice coverage over this short record, there is a reversal in the volumetric and areal contributions of the two ice types to the total volume and area of the Arctic Ocean ice cover.

Volume change includes both the area reduction (change in ice coverage, albedo, and heat absorption / reflection) and the thickness (vulnerability).

It's also worth noting that the area of sea ice coverage is influenced by the wind, and the rapid area loss of last summer was mainly wind - driven — but thin sea ice is more sensitive to wind forcing than thick sea ice is.

Then from 1995 to 2002, the ice area actually increased (although you would never read that in the popular press), it decreased again in 2004, and in 2005 it increased again â $ ¦ and at the end of 2005, the amount of Arctic ice was back to the 1979 - 2000 average ice coverage.

Further, loss of large areas of ice coverage reduce albedo (reflectivity).

Or look at it the other way around: if the ice cover were a record high in late summer, the opportunity for ice growth (increased area coverage) would be reduced, since there would be less open water that could freeze over.

The separation in REA16 of the effect of masking from that of sea ice changes on blending air and water temperature changes is somewhat artificial, since HadCRUT4 has limited coverage in areas where sea ice occurs.

For both summer and winter Arctic sea - ice, the area coverage is declining at present (with summer sea - ice declining more markedly; ref.

You can make an argument about those areas having the best coverage but the accepted truth, even by skeptics, that the world has been warming up steadily since the little ice age.

The 2012 sea ice coverage was smaller by 27,000 square miles, an area slightly bigger than the state of West Virginia.

Is thickening in this area normal or predicted when Arctic sea ice approaches minimal summer coverage?

It really bugs me when scientists who are very sophisticated in one arena — here, proxy reconstructions of ice coverage of part of the Arctic — exhibit magical thinking in another area.

Areas near land may show some ice coverage where there is not any because the sensor's resolution is not fine enough to distinguish ice from land when a pixel overlaps the coast.

Despite its areas of inaccuracy, near - real - time data are still useful for assessing changes in sea ice coverage, particularly when averaged over an entire month.

For example, if you live in an area where snow and ice are common, and you're responsible for keeping walkways and stairwells clear, you may need more coverage.