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.
When I look at the Great Lakes
Ice coverage using Environment Canada Ice Service, I see regions of ice along the shores and bays and waters between islands, 0.5 % of ice coverage so far.
Not exact matches
The team
used a worldwide climate model that incorporated normal month - to - month variations in sea surface temperatures and sea
ice coverage, among other climate factors, to simulate 12,000 years» worth of weather.
That loss of
use coverage is triggered by a covered claim, such as weight of
ice and snow, and it pays for a hotel and other additional living expenses beyond what you'd normally spend on housing and related expenses.
I have gotten
use to EC's presentation and found the NOAA's
ice coverage a day late and a dollar short; ie, blank when EC has data.
Usually, I
use NOAA GLER for lake temperatures and Environmental Canada
Ice Service for ice covera
Ice Service for
ice covera
ice coverage.
This is one reason why GISS does not currently
use SST data in the seasonal
ice region above 75N, even when this data is seasonally available (as is increasingly the case due to diminishing trends in
ice extent and better
coverage due to satellite data).
As a consequence, any sea
ice coverage ensemble forecast that
uses the 2007 temperature and specific humidity fields as part of the input surface BCs will approximately have the 2007 sea
ice minimum as the lower end estimate of the ensemble.
To make
use of that potential we would need good estimates of sea
ice thickness, such as might be obtained from ICESat or CryoSat (i.e., complete spatial
coverage).
«We can
use our microwave signatures to decompose the network of melt ponds versus snow and
ice patches to get a relative percentage
coverage of melt ponds,» says Scharien.
Using the above stated values for the albedos and snow and
ice coverage, total disappearance of the snow and
ice fields would reduce the Earth's reflectance by only 5 percent.
Slate's Phil Plait was responsibly reserved in his
coverage, emphasizing that although one of the press releases
used the word «collapse,» the melting of this particular glacier — which by itself contains enough
ice to raise global seas by three feet — is a process that will take centuries, if not longer, to play out.
Your initial NSIDC graph says they
use 15 %
coverage for sea
ice extent.
Breakup for Western Hudson Bay (WHB) is looking to be later than usual this year, given that the average breakup date since 1991 has been July 1 (
using a 30 % threshold)-- only a few days from now — and the
ice in WHB is nowhere near 50 %
coverage, let alone 30 %.
That loss of
use coverage is triggered by a covered claim, such as weight of
ice and snow, and it pays for a hotel and other additional living expenses beyond what you'd normally spend on housing and related expenses.