Sentences with phrase «ice decline indicates»

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.

Not exact matches

However, this year's ice cover remains far below the 1981 - 2010 average, indicating an ongoing, long - term decline of ice because of warming temperatures, according to scientists.

I would say that this indicates a changed dynamic in the Arctic, especially when viewed as part of the long - term decline of the ice cap.

The credible scientific studies I can find indicate that the observed Arctic sea ice decline has accellerated in recent years, which would make a linear interpolation a really lousey estimate with which to predict the future.

Arctic sea ice is melting, but the Antarctic has cooled for 30 years and the sea ice there is growing, so the decline in Arctic sea ice does not indicate a global problem.

Although July data indicated that the sea ice might be on track for a slight recovery from 2007 (though still well below «normal» climatological conditions), new sea ice data and weather forecasts show that total ice extent in early August declined at about twice the rate of any other time this summer.

Simulating the variation of the ice sheet's albedo using a regional climate model — Modèle Atmosphérique Régionale (MAR), which some members of the team helped develop — indicated that increasing temperatures and melting accompanied by snow grain growth and greater bare ice exposure account for about half the decline, the scientists report.

The absence of anomalous features evident in 2007 in SLP and stratospheric and surface winds in spring in 2011 indicates that accelerated decline associated with the former will not be an artifact of dynamical phenomena, although a thinner and more mobile ice cover may lower the wind forcing threshold required for increased ice export.

Miller assumes (reasonably enough) that the moss was engulfed by ice cap expansion — the expansion indicating a decline in temperature — and that the moss has not been subsequently exposed (since it degrades relatively rapidly upon exposure).

A report published online by World Climate Report for the science and public policity institute says there exist historic observations, as well as currently active research efforts, that strongly indicate that there was a large sea - ice extent decline from about the mid-1920s to the mid-1940s.

Arctic summer sea ice is in rapid decline [2nd lowest extent on record after 2007, and perhaps more importantly, the lowest volume of ice ever — this, along with the methane increase, could indicate a tipping element has been crossed that will kick climate change into a higher gear]

The study also indicates that declining sea ice off the peninsula is causing greater mixing in the Southern Ocean, said co-author Doug Martinson, an oceanographer at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

The fact that polar ice is disappearing faster than predicted from the models along with permafrost decline and more besides seem to indicate to many climate scientists (who incidently appear profously in the Fred Pearce book — the last generation) that human induced climate change is happenning faster than can be explained by the primarily linear models.