Sentences with phrase «ice drifting»

At the same time, the ice in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas is seeing less multiyear ice drifting in from the Canadian Arctic, with more first - year ice prevalent in 2011 than in past years.

Even ice drifting out in the North sea?!

Why is sea ice drifting so much more rapidly today than before?

We had stopped at a Russian base camp set up each spring for tourists on the sea ice drifting over the 14,300 - foot - deep spot.

When the extent of the pack of sea ice drifting around the North Pole hit a remarkable low in 2007 (animation below), the resulting, and persistent, front - page thought was that the system was in a «death spiral» far more dramatic than any climate model had foreseen.

The video report I posted above is drawn from footage I shot five years ago, when I was lucky enough to land with an intrepid crew of scientists on the drifting, cracking, huffing, chugging sea ice drifting around the North Pole.

Leading ice experts in Europe and the United States for the first time have agreed that a ring of navigable waters has opened all around the fringes of the cap of sea ice drifting on the warming Arctic Ocean.

The vast, scrabbly sheath of sea ice drifting on the Arctic Ocean ended its annual summer retreat this week, and the result was sobering.

The team investigated the trajectories of sea ice drifting in the ocean and saw a pattern of ice — and hence water — flowing northward from the vast northern coast of Russia toward the middle of the Arctic Ocean, where the radium concentrations had increased.

Juha Karvonen, tel. [phone] J. Karvonen: Virtual radar ice buoys — a method for measuring fine - scale sea ice drift, The Cryosphere, 10, 29 - 42, 2016, doi: 10.5194 / tc -10-29-2016, http://www.the-cryosphere.net/10/29/2016/

«The thinner ice drifts more quickly and can break up into smaller pieces.

IPCC climate models do not capture Arctic sea ice drift acceleration: Consequences in terms of projected sea ice thinning and decline Rampal et al., Journal of Geophysical Research, 2011

eg 6 Conclusions We have developed a new algorithm for estimating sea ice age distribution using sea ice drift and concentration products.

they wrote.49 In addition to smaller areas and briefer periods of ice cover, they expect thinner ice, smaller floe sizes, more open water, more ice drift and changes in the nature of snow cover.

Furthermore, dissimilarity and a continued loss in coherence in sea ice drift patterns in March 2012 relative to March 2007 and 2011 suggests that spatiotemporal variability in fall ice extent will be governed by local ice conditions and ice - ice interactions as monitored by small - scale properties associated with sea ice deformation.

What's more, a recent study in the Journal of Geophysical Letters found that IPCC models had low - balled the rate at which melted ice drifts off, further accelerating the collapse.

The instabilities in the ice drift patterns broadly favor ice export via Fram Strait.

These variations in the Arctic all contribute to ice drift reaching its weakest point during the summer months.

The processing and dissemination of sea ice drift vectors from low - resolution imaging sensors (OSI - 405) was succesfully resumed today 4 October 2010.

Image of the ice drift through a 3 day period, from 2000, April 30 to May 3.

Sentinel - 1A / B operate a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with advanced observation capabilities in all weather conditions over the ocean (wind, waves, and surface current) and sea ice field (sea ice deformation, lead fraction and sea ice drift).

Over the sea ice field the observations include: sea ice freeboard height and hence sea ice thickness from radar altimetry; sea ice surface temperature and sea ice drift from respectively infrared radiometer and imaging spectrometer under cloud free conditions.

More information on the sea ice drift product OSI - 405 is found here.

Rigor et al. (Polar Science Center, University of Washington); 5.4 Million Square Kilometers; Heuristic This estimate is based on the prior winter Arctic Oscillation (AO) conditions, and the spatial distribution of the sea ice of different ages as estimated from a Drift - age Model (DM), which combines buoy drift and retrievals of sea ice drift from satellites (Rigor and Wallace, 2004, updated).

Further investigation of ice thickness and free ice drift conditions, in addition to persistence of SLP maxima, will provide further insight as to whether convergence (divergence) of sea ice associated with SLP highs (lows) will give rise to increased ice retreat in the Arctic and the Beaufort Sea region in particular.

Rapid ice drift is an important factor in regional ice conditions, especially redistribution of multiyear ice into areas with high melt rates at low latitudes.

- To investigate how a more realistic representation of sea ice drift affects the simulation of freshwater mass distribution in the Arctic Ocean.

Secondary objectives: Four secondary objectives have been defined: - To assess the effect of a more accurate simulation of sea ice drift and deformation on the Arctic sea ice mass balance and distribution properties of sea ice age.

Differences between surface winds and SLP, and vortex splitting and sea ice extent composites exhibit conditions that are unfavorable to export through Fram Strait in May, 2009; southwesterly versus southeasterly winds in the Beaufort Sea region may also limit free ice drift conditions and inhibit the acceleration evident in years exhibiting record lows in sea ice extent.

Heil, P. and W. D. Hibler III, 2002, Modeling the high - frequency component of Arctic sea ice drift and deformation, J. Phys.

Hibler, W. D. III, A. Roberts, P. Heil, A. Y. Proshutinsky, H. L. Simmons, and J. Lovick, 2006, Modeling M2 tidal variability in Arctic sea - ice drift and deformation, Annals of Glaciology, 44, 418 - 428.

Lukovich et al., 4.3, n / a, Heuristic Daily maps of surface winds, SLP, and nowcast ice drift data illustrate regional differences in atmospheric forcing of sea ice in 2011 and 2012.

Increased variability in ice drift is also observed in 2012 compared to 2011.

Early in the year, sea ice drift had a strong clockwise pattern (Figure 5a, top).

However, July conditions greatly reduced sea ice drift speed in the Beaufort Sea and produced a counterclockwise drift pattern in the Laptev Sea (Figure 5a, bottom).

In these high ice - loss years, they found «anticyclonic» circulation patterns — a clockwise ice drift that transports sea ice toward the Chukchi Sea between Siberia and Alaska, and toward the Fram Strait between Greenland and the island of Spitsbergen.

This AD pattern quickly shifted in the second half of June, however, and was replaced by a low sea level pressure center over the Pacific side of the Arctic Ocean (Figure 3b), opposing the transpolar sea ice drift.

Also there are some papers that have been ignored, such as Rampal 2011: IPCC climate models do not capture Arctic sea ice drift acceleration: Consequences in terms of projected sea ice thinning and decline

Lukovich et al. (Centre for Earth Observation Science, U. of Manitoba); 4.4 to 4.5; Heuristic - Dynamics The absence of a strong and persistent sea level pressure high over the Beaufort in July together with the absence of spatial homogeneity in the springtime sea ice drift fields suggest that continued sea ice decline will be an artifact of increased temperatures and thermodynamic forcing rather than the considerable dynamical contributions seen in summer of 2007.

A combined lack of coherence in ice drift fields and reduced ice concentrations in April 2011 relative to April 2007 suggest that springtime ice dynamical contributions to fall sea ice extent may be associated with sea ice deformation and ridging within an increasingly mobile and fractured ice cover.

Not exact matches

I could tell you that spending 20 years in a maximum security prison will fill your days with joy and wonder, they will serve ice cream every day and you get massages every lunch hour and the guards rub your feet every night as they read to you from an adventure book while you drift off to sleep.

I could go on and elaborate on a number of other disciplines or facts that creationists have to pretend into oblivion to retain their faith, including the Ice Ages, cavemen and early hominids, much of microbiology, paleontology and archeology, continental drift and plate tectonics, even large parts of medical research (medical research on monkeys and mice only works because they share a common ancestor with us and therefore our fundamental cell biology and basic body architecture is identical to theirs).

I could go on and elaborate on a number of other disciplines or facts that creationists have to pretend into oblivion to retain their faith, including the Ice Ages, cavemen and early hominids, much of microbiology, paleontology and archeology, continental drift and plate tectonics.

We've been sleeping more than usual (I actually went to bed with Matthew at 7 pm earlier this week, waking only long enough to scarf down a tiny bowl of pasta for dinner before drifting off to la - la - land again), eating our collective weight in local ice cream, and touring small, nearby towns in the afternoons before heading back to the cottage for happy hour snack time.

Here on the West Coast, we rarely have to complain about bitterly cold mornings, blizzards and snow drifts, or ice on the inside of our windows.

Carrying food and utensils to the grill can become out - right dangerous climbing over snow drifts or sliding on ice - covered decks.

Cool on a wire rack, cover, and chill for a couple of hours before slicing and serving plain or with a drift of powdered sugar, a dollop of vegan whipped cream, or a scoop of vegan vanilla ice cream.

Unlike a lot of the upper Midwest, which has a boring, homogenous landscape because of the glacial drift during the last ice age, this region has cliffs and rock formations.

Ironically she was about to watch the same movie which was this interview was set in conjunction with: Ice Age: Continental Drift.

And finally, in Ice Age: Continental Drift, the latest film, Sid gets his family back.