Sentences with phrase «ice distribution»

They, however, didn't seem to be considering ramifications for anything else but sea ice distribution.

Closer to home, Heller and Pudritz modelled the early life of Jupiter, revealing a pattern of ice distribution on Jupiter's moons that led them to predict the formation of moons around the super-Jupiters of other solar systems.

At the same time, the range of ensemble simulations from sea ice models mentioned above shows how capricious weather patterns — such as the one observed in 2007 — can help drive anomalous ice distribution patterns in any one year.

In the NWP region, multi-year ice distribution patterns suggest that the coming year will only see limited openings in the northern parts of the route.

At this point, the regional outlook on ice conditions indicates that the large - scale weather patterns, which dominated in August with cooler conditions and advection of ice into the eastern North American Arctic, can also help explain much of the observed ice distribution at the local level.

The agreement will enhance the brand reach of Himalayan Natural Mineral Water under the Talking Rain Beverage Co. umbrella, leveraging the Sparkling Ice distribution network to launch the mineral water in the United States, the company says.

In addition to these valuable new insights into sea ice distribution during the last interglacial, the study also produced another exciting finding, one concerning the extent of circum - Arctic ice sheets during the Saale glaciation.

Massom, R., et al. (2009) Fast ice distribution in Adelie land, east Antarctica: interannual variability and implications for Emperor penguins Aptenodytes forsteri.

The animation below of the sea ice concentration chart from Cryosphere Today shows changes in ice distribution from 31 December 2010 to 22 March 2011 in 5 day steps.

Statistics and characteristics of permafrost and ground ice distribution in the Northern Hemisphere.

Both these years differ strongly from the summer ice distribution of the 1980s or even the previous record minimum in 2005.

Figure 3: Ice distribution along the Northern Sea Route based on QuikScat radar data provided by Son Nghiem (JPL) for September 29, 2009.

In the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, ice distribution mimicks the Beaufort Gyre circulation pattern with advection of ice from the high Canadian Arctic into the Beaufort Sea and export of ice northward in the Chukchi Sea.

«On suborbital time scales, ice distributions varied in the Holo - cene, but no evidence exists for large, pan-Arctic fluctuations.

Lindsay and Zhang's prediction for the Barnett Ice Severity Index (BIS) for the Beaufort Sea (an index based on various measures of ice distribution relevant for shipping to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska) is 1057 ± 162, and did not change significantly from its value for the June Outlook.

Several studies were able to roughly reproduce the observed ice distributions, but only by invoking novel mechanisms for ice formation or by including sources of ice nuclei not confirmed by the measurements.

Howell and Duguay's approach of deducing likely summer evolution of the Parry Channel route of the NWP based on past conditions of multi-year ice distributions was quite successful in predicting ice evolution at high spatial resolution.

Nares Strait Recent ice advection patterns; warm water advances into the Arctic from the Atlantic; ice distribution patterns: all of these things show that conditions continue to be advantageous for export of ice through Fram Strait.

El Niño causes higher sea level pressure, warmer air temperature and warmer sea surface temperature in west Antarctica that affect sea ice distribution.

Sea Ice Distribution in May 2009 versus 2008 derived from QuikSCAT scatterometer: perennial ice (white), mixed ice (aqua), seasonal ice (teal).

Using the information hidden away in the penguin's genome, the research team has reconstructed the changes in the worldwide King penguin population throughout the last 50,000 years, and discovered that past climatic changes, causing shifts in marine currents, sea - ice distribution and Antarctic Polar Front location, have always been linked to critical episodes for the King penguins.

It is tricky to completely isolate the individual causes because changes in GHG may produce altered cloud and sea ice distribution.

12:30 - 12:45 Sub-centennial Holocene fluctuations of Atlantic water inflow and sea ice distribution in the western Barents Sea, European Arctic Sarah Berben, Katrine Husum, Patricia Cabedo Sanz, Simon Belt

The main feedbacks between climate and the ice sheet arise from changes in ice elevation, atmospheric and ocean circulation, and sea - ice distribution.

Fraser, A., et al. (2012) East Antarctic Landfast Sea Ice Distribution and Variability, 2000?

Seasonal variation is generally mitigated through the product's quarterly baseline, although changes in some parts of the world, like boreal regions, can be affected by snow and ice distribution.

Both full sea ice models and seasonal melt projections applied to detailed sea ice distributions and trajectories provided the main semi-quantitative information for the Outlook.

Both full sea ice models and seasonal melting projections applied to detailed sea ice distributions and trajectories provided the main semi-quantitative information for the Outlook.

Future releases will include summary statistics for sea ice distribution, land surface vegetation characteristics (in collaboration with the International Land Model Benchmarking, ILAMB), three - dimensional structure of ocean temperature and salinity, monsoon onset and withdrawal, the diurnal cycle of precipitation, major modes of climate variability, and selected «emergent constraints» [Flato et al., 2013].

The quality and skill of climate predictions depends crucially on a good knowledge of the northern sea surface temperatures (SST) and sea ice distributions.

That would vary the different factors that influence the mixing efficiency such as average surface wind velocity changes, regional surface wind velocity changes, sea ice extent, sea ice distribution (as in which pole and which areas), saliniity as well as temperature differentials, basically anything that can influence the THC.

To expand the coverage of global gridded reanalyses, the 20th Century Reanalysis Project is an effort led by PSD and the CIRES at the University of Colorado to produce a reanalysis dataset spanning the entire twentieth century, assimilating only surface observations of synoptic pressure, monthly sea surface temperature and sea ice distribution.

El Niño causes higher sea level pressure, warmer air temperature and warmer sea surface temperature in west Antarctica that affect sea ice distribution.

This needs to be further explored, as it is likely to have an impact on predictions of future sea - ice distribution.

Sea - surface temperature and sea ice distribution of the Southern Ocean at the EPILOG Last Glacial Maximum — a circum - Antarctic view based on siliceous microfossil records