Sentences with phrase «ice experts»

Hmm, some sea ice expert, can't recall who, said several years ago that the first ice - free event would be quite sudden.
«The Arctic is clearly experiencing the impacts of a prolonged and intensified warming trend,» said the report's co-editor, Jackie Richter - Menge, a sea ice expert at the Army Corps of Engineers» Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, N.H.
Retreat at Thwaites Glacier, on the other hand — another of West Antarctica's monster glaciers, and currently the subject of greatest concern among Antarctic ice experts — has slightly increased in the last few years, from about 1,100 feet to nearly 1,400 feet per year.
Sea ice experts said the ice cover may have become so thin and brittle that it doesn't need unusually sunny and warm weather in order to melt to a record low anymore, even a typical Arctic summer can do the job.
This is reflected in observations of ice retreat patterns by local ice experts in the Bering Strait area who report slower ice retreat and lingering ice in the Bering Sea compared to recent years (report by Eicken et al.).
Newer computer models that scientists are using to help prepare the next IPCC report, which is scheduled to be released in 2014, do a much better job capturing the historical sea ice trends than the previous generation of models did, several sea ice experts told Climate Central.
Yesterday, several ice experts, including William Chapman of the University of Illinois, Marika Holland at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Walt Meier at the Boulder ice center, said that cloudier weather had prevented early - summer heating and that the strong winds that opened big stretches of water last year were not repeated this summer.
Latest video for The Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media, the first since returning from Greenland — includes interviews with Ice expert Alun Hubbard, who I met in Kangerlussuaq, as well as a snip from...
«We have a new normal,» said Don Perovich, a sea ice expert who works at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory.
Beckwith also tells us about the new book by long - time ice expert (formerly from Cambridge no less) Dr. Peter Wadhams.
That is consistent with other surveys, such as that of continental ice experts by Bamber & Aspinell (Nature Climate Change 2013).
There are some excellent scientists at Rutgers deeply immersed in research related to global warming, including the modeler Alan Robock and the sea - ice expert Jennifer Francis, who I quoted last year on the role of clouds and water vapor in speeding the melting of ice on the Arctic Ocean.]
But he and a host of other ice experts, in e-mail exchanges and calls over the past week examining Mr. Will's assertions, noted the irrelevance of this parsing.
In an experimental cross-check, more than a dozen teams of polar ice experts tried issuing experimental forecasts of the sea ice as conditions evolved through the spring and summer.
The same sea - ice experts foreseeing a new record retreat of the Arctic Ocean coverage this summer have explanations for the flow between Greenland and Iceland, too.]
Comparison with ground - based observations by Iñupiat ice experts demonstrates that standard remote - sensing products are not always useful in helping assess or predict the conditions at the local level.
Reports by Joe Leavitt, a Barrow ice expert, indicate that the prevailing winds have been pushing ice offshore, making access to sea ice for hunting difficult along the Chukchi coast.
The downward trend is quite clear, according to Julienne Stroeve, a sea ice expert at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, who is currently based at University College London.
One of the world's leading ice experts has predicted the final collapse of Arctic sea ice in summer months within four years.
Retreat at Thwaites Glacier, on the other hand — another of West Antarctica's monster glaciers, and currently the subject of greatest concern among Antarctic ice experts — has slightly increased in the last few years, from about 1,100 feet to nearly 1,400 feet per year.
Sea ice experts said the ice cover may have become so thin and brittle that it doesn't need unusually sunny and warm weather in order to melt to a record low anymore, even a typical Arctic summer can do the job.
Tour leaders have been trained in observations and are in contact with sea ice experts, however it should be noted this is their first experience recording these observations.
An ice expert turned politician, Adams is well respected in his caucus — the Government Caucus on Post-Secondary Education and Research — and is a leading expert in his field, as well as a life - long community activist.
Igor Polyakov, an ice expert at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, said that heat banked in ocean waters appears to be the main force driving the ice shrinkage this summer, while last year wind patterns were the main factor.
One ice expert (below) warns that this warming is unlikely to affect the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (and thus sea levels).
I've freshly canvassed more than a dozen sea - ice experts to get their latest views on whether the remarkable Arctic ice retreat of last summer will be matched this year.
[Andy Revkin — On Arctic ice trends, I have a post coming shortly on the latest update from the world's leading teams of sea ice experts, showing this year's retreat is unlikely to match last year's, while the long - term trend is still heading toward ever less summer ice.
Several experts said it was not plausible from the get - go, but for the sake of due diligence, I queried a heap of the Arctic oceanographers and climate and ice experts I've gotten to know since my North Pole journey in 2003.
Ignatius G. Rigor, an ice expert at the University of Washington, agrees.
I sent the note to an array of sea - ice experts, and many, including Mark Serreze at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, concurred.
Still, there appears to be growing conviction among ice experts that a few more years of work really could clarify what's possible, or not, on time scales relevant to today's children and their children.
«The Aqua satellite will tell us about water in all of its forms,» said Dr. Claire Parkinson, a sea ice expert and Aqua project scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., which is in charge of the program.
The Outlooks are produced with information on weather and sea ice conditions provided by the National Weather Service - Alaska Region and Alaska Native sea ice experts.
The ice experts at CRYOLIST say that the bogosity of the claims should have been immediately obvious to anyone with an ounce of scientific sense.
«In previous summers, some of the [multi-year ice] migrated over to the Alaska and Siberia areas where it melted,» Dr. Don Perovich, a sea - ice expert at Dartmouth College, told BBC News.
For the 2009 SEARCH Sea Ice Outlook, regional perspectives on ice evolution during the summer had been solicited, both to synthesize relevant field observations and modeling activities and to encourage communication between different sea ice experts and user groups.
But in 2010 I co-authored a paper with two sea ice experts and a historian / ethnologist in which we used nineteenth - century records from whaling ships hunting bowhead whales in the north Pacific and beyond, along the Arctic sea ice edge.

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