Sentences with phrase «ice growth occurred»
The formulas assume that the ice growth occurs in calm water and is reasonably consistent, and they do not take into account sea ice motion, snow cover, and other surface conditions.»
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For the first time, scientists have obtained direct, quantifiable observations of cloud seeding for increased snowfall — from the growth of ice crystals, through the processes that occur in clouds, to the eventual snowfall.
«Probability density function,» a statistical representation of the likelihood of something occurring at any point in time, was used to examine cloud properties, including vertical motion, liquid and ice water content, and the conditions of cloud particle growth, including how ice crystals grow at the expense of liquid droplets.
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.
However warm spikes due to high solar output punctuated this cooling trend roughly every thousand years.22 The unprecedented Holocene glacier growth during the Little Ice Age occurred when solar output was extremely low.
This net loss of ice has occurred globally, and no, the growth in Antarctic sea ice has not come even close to making up for net ice mass loss globally.
Ice growth for December occurred primarily within the Chukchi Sea, Kara Sea, and Hudson Bay — areas that experienced a late seasonal freeze - up.
The scientists believe that the growth of sea ice until 2.6 million years ago was partly due to the considerable exhumation of the land masses in the circum - Arctic that occurred during this period.
And if CO2 forcing is not the primary driver of ice decline, a rebound may occur despite continued growth in CO2 emissions.
A lowering of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels near the beginning of this time period occurred in response to the rise of land plants and likely cooled Earth, but the rapid growth of extensive Gondwanan ice sheets was delayed for tens of millions of years, until the Late Mississippian.»
The Cenozoic record also reveals the amplification of climate change that occurs with growth or decay of ice sheets, as is apparent at about 34 Myr BP when the Earth became cool enough for large - scale glaciation of Antarctica and in the most recent 3 — 5 Myr with the growth of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets.