Sentences with phrase «ice growth»

It used to persist through the sunny summers, allowing several years of ice growth to accumulate.

It's not just that we're seeing slower ice growth, but the high temperatures are actually melting old, thick ice as well.

The main cause is simply global warming: as the climate has warmed there has been less ice growth during the winter and more ice melt during the summer.

High sea surface temperatures in open water areas were important in limiting ice growth.

With more heat in the upper ocean, autumn ice growth is delayed.

The process is self reinforcing and runaway ice growth ultimately covers much of the north in kilometres deep ice fields.

The reality is that the rate of Arctic ice growth has more than doubled.

During the first week of October, NSIDC will issue a full analysis of the possible causes behind this year's ice conditions, including a discussion of how the summer's low ice extent may affect the winter ice growth season ahead, and graphics comparing this year to the long - term record.

The warmists are ignoring the record ice growth in the Antarctic and the fact that global sea ice recently hit a 30 year high.

Comparison of sea ice age during the second full week of September reveals that the Arctic will enter the winter ice growth season with less multiyear ice (bright colors), but far more first - year ice (dark blue) this year than it did in 2007.

The rate of ice growth for December was 90,000 square kilometers (34,700 square miles) per day.

Little ice growth occurred in the Kara and Barents Seas, while ice extent increased in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas.

Interglacial cooling rates demonstrate consistent, predictable trendlines suggesting Earth's climate follows similar, repeatable processes such as ice growth rates and oceanic / atmospheric process interactions as it cools.

This creates thicker, longer - lasting ice, while exposing surrounding water and thin ice to the blistering cold winds that cause more ice growth.

Field observations (see Hutchings» contribution) suggest that clear sky conditions during nighttime may have promoted overnight ice growth on leads and melt ponds, slowing down ice melt.

A new University of Washington study, with funding and satellite data from NASA and other agencies, finds a trend toward earlier sea ice melt in the spring and later ice growth in the fall across all 19 polar bear populations, which can negatively impact the feeding and breeding capabilities of the bears.

In 2012, a team of scientists led by geochemist Gifford Miller of the University of Colorado, Boulder, strengthened the link between the mystery eruption and the onset of the Little Ice Age by using radiocarbon dating of dead plant material from beneath the ice caps on Baffin Island and Iceland, as well as ice and sediment core data, to determine that the cold summers and ice growth began abruptly between 1275 and 1300 C.E. (and became intensified between 1430 and 1455 C.E.).

This triggers year on year ice growth because of albedo changes, that now reflect solar energy away from Earth.

Although the entire IJsselmeer lake and much of the salty Wadden Sea are frozen, with shipping lanes requiring ice breakers, and despite massive snow - clearing efforts [snow hinders ice growth underneath] the minimally required ice thickness of 15 centimetres was not reached along the entire Elfstedentocht route.

There's approximately 3 - 4 more weeks of ice growth ahead and we're currently -0.757 (million sq. km) of the 1979 - 2008 mean:

Such thick ice growth helps to limit sub-lake permafrost thaw by freezing the sediments solid each winter.

But while Antarctica boasts record - breaking ice growth, the picture in the Arctic looks a bit different.

The research team learned that the process of ice growth at the expense of liquid evaporation occurs in about half of mixed - phase regimes, primarily in downdrafts.

Antifreeze glycoproteins (AFGPs), produced by polar fishes, inhibit ice growth...

Rapid ice growth during the second half of September allowed the monthly average sea ice extent to somewhat rebound from the second lowest daily extent observed on September 10.

The energy banked in the warm water retards ice growth and also warms the air above.

Water that's usually frigid in October (like the East Siberian and Barents Seas) has been warmer, so ice growth is slow.

After mid-October, ice growth returned to near - average rates, but extent remained at record low levels through late October.

Colder temperatures from 1500 - 750 BC caused renewed ice growth in continental glaciers and alpine glaciers, and a sea level drop of between 2 to 3 meters below present day levels.

Vladimir Semenov, a climate scientist at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics and the Institute of Geography in Moscow, who was not involved in the study, attributes the period of ice growth mostly to natural variability, although he said aerosols probably also play some role.

«High tilt = Cooler polar summers coupled with warmer polar winters = ice growth (assuming there are continents around to support glaciers).