Sentences with phrase «ice decline»

They found that the circulation of air — and its temperature and humidity — could contribute 60 % of the polar sea ice decline since 1979.

They simply don't have the power to reduce carbon emissions from human activities, making it nearly impossible for them to deal with the sea ice decline face on.

After a very warm winter, and probably a thin ice cover at the start of summer, sea ice declined quickly in early summer.

Contemporary ice declines are shown to be a response to past greenhouse gas emissions, with present mitigation efforts unlikely to be beneficial in preventing future short - term ice loss.

Can the ongoing Arctic sea ice decline weaken the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC)?

The initiative was begun following a workshop on Arctic ice trends in March that was triggered by the «drastic and unexpected sea ice decline witnessed in 2007,» according to the report posted online.

The research has shown that manmade global warming is likely responsible for 50 to 60 percent of Arctic sea ice decline during the satellite era.

It is clear that the trend of Arctic sea ice decline indicates that it'll be ice - free for an increasingly large part of the year, with consequences for the climate.

The Great Melt: This animation of images taken over time by NASA satellites shows Arctic sea ice declining for the past 30 years.

October 2006: Reported on 2006 Arctic sea ice minimum and its global warming significance; collaborated on an analysis of the predicted and observed sea ice decline rates with J. Stroeve, W. Meier, M. Holland, and T. Scambos.

The presently low maximum sea ice extent in the Western Nordic Seas is unique over the last 800 years, and results from a sea ice decline started in late - nineteenth century after the Little Ice Age.»

There seems to be evidence that suggests that a substantial sea ice decline took place in the Arctic in the early - to - mid 20th century in locations other than the Scandinavia / Greenland area.

A graph of September Arctic sea ice extent (blue diamonds) with «recovery» years highlighted in red, versus the long - term sea ice decline fit with a second order polynomial, also in red.

Arctic ice decline clearly ended as the AMOC positive phase ended 2005, increasing as AMOC trends negative.

The first part of this sentence seems to demand a high level of uncertainty with respect to the later assertion, especially when one considers that the work seems to be based on 4 years of observational data, the post-2007 ice decline.

Arctic sea ice declined by roughly 10 percent in the past decade, culminating in a record 2007 minimum ice cover of 1.59 million square miles.

As the rate of sea ice decline speeds up it is starting to exceed the predictions of climate computer models which had previously suggested that by 2100 the Arctic will be ice free in summer.

The 2010 minimum was part of a larger pattern of overall Arctic sea ice decline dating back to at least the early 1970s.

After a few days of growth, sea ice declined again until September 19.

The bestodian trang function equivalent however, implies that sea ice decline reversal has already begun.

Both groups accept the premise that sea ice declines blamed on global warming are already a survival issue for polar bears (that will become increasingly worse in the future).

As you know I extensively researched the period of which I wrote - including visiting the Scott Polar institute in Cambridge (the real one...) I hope to write in more detail about the period from 1940 to the start of the satellite records (1972 or 1979) at some point, as whether or not arctic ice declined further or whether it increased roughly in line with the general cooling trend I don't know until I look.

«At the end of the analysis, when looking at trend analysis results, we were stunned to observe such a dramatic ice decline during a period of only 20 years», Surdu said.

In response to your question I would refer you to my comment above Dave Wendt (14:39:39): where I discuss the Rigor and Wallace paper of 2004 which demonstrated that the decline in sea ice age and thickness began with a shift in state in Beaufort Gyre and the TransPolar Drift in 1989 which resulted in multiyear ice declining from over 80 % of the Arctic to 30 % in about one year and that the persistence of that pattern has been responsible for the continuing decline.

In 2007 the sea ice decline steepened abruptly to reach a new record low.

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

Even though the sea ice declines slowly, the majority of winter warming is due to that loss.

An extensive area of lower than average temperatures in the Central Arctic and the Siberian coast, attended by persistent low pressure systems in the same region, led to slightly slower than average sea ice decline through the month.