Sentences with phrase «ice in the region»

One of the main reasons is the loss of sea ice in the region.

This suggests delayed ice retreat due to thicker ice in the region.

Now, the ice melts in summer, causing the total time without floating ice in the region to jump from less than 1 month per year to more than three.

This, in turn, means that the permanent ice in the region is more vulnerable the next summer — and melting rates increase each year.

Recent development of sea ice in the region can only improve that rating.

According to new data regarding the thickness of Arctic sea ice from last winter, the thickness of ice in some regions of the Arctic declined by as much as 19 %, compared to the previous five years.

That's the equivalent of a missing area of sea ice almost four times the size of Colorado, and puts this year right in line with a trend of ever decreasing sea ice in the region as the climate warms.

Because they depend on sea ice to hunt seals, the polar bear is considered threatened as global warming melts and thins ice in this region.

Climate modelers do not include effects on land - based ice in these regions because they can not reduce them to equations, such as x amount of extra heat equals y amount of melting.

«This is the first - ever such survey in the Northwest Passage, and we were surprised to find this much thick ice in the region in late winter, despite the fact that there is more and more open water in recent years during late summer,» says Haas.

The volume of water ice in the region were based on measurements from the ground - penetrating radar instrument on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, called SHARAD.

This is what may have contributed in part to lingering ice in this region as a result of thicker first - year ice (due to a more severe winter and higher winter ice growth) as well.

They are going to study cosmic rays, assess polar microplastics and nano plastics and, on the 90th birthday of its loss, look for the remains of Umberto Nobile's lost dirigible, the Airship Italia, «taking advantage of the melting ice in the region for the first time in centuries.»

In early September, the Guardian in London reported, «The Arctic ice cap has collapsed at an unprecedented rate this summer, and levels of sea ice in the region now stand at a record low.»

Buoys show this ice moving into the East Siberian Sea, lending some support to the notion of thicker, more enduring ice in this region.

In contrast, heuristic predictions indicate complete melt of first - and possibly second - year ice in this region.

Or, considering another view, melting the first 50 % of ice in an region during a storm is easier, the remaining 50 % is much tougher; even though the amount of heat transfer area has increased substantially, the driving force (delta Temperature) will have declined.

On November 30th, diplomats from the Department of State concluded 10 years of negotiations by finalizing a multilateral agreement to protect the central Arctic Ocean from overfishing, as sea ice in the region dwindles.

Since the northern Atlantic Ocean is one of the main areas that the AMO is active (meaning that area of the ocean is what warms up) it is hardly surprising that arctic ice in that region is impacted.

At the same time, there is comparatively little multiyear ice in the region (see also map of ice - age distribution by Maslanik and Fowler in June Pan-Arctic Outlook).

If the low SLP in the central Arctic persists, we can expect to see rapid retreat of ice in these regions as well as in the Canada Basin.

For instance, the freshwater from melting land - based glaciers more readily freezes than salty sea water, increasing sea ice in some regions of the continent.

Geology is also compounding the rapid loss of ice in those regions.

Study researchers Hélène Seroussi and Erik Ivins of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory built a model of all the known melting and freezing under the ice in the region.

«We used actual satellite measurements of both albedo and sea ice in the region to verify this and to quantify how much extra heat the region has absorbed due to the ice loss.

Something that goes along with this change in atmospheric circulation is reduced sea ice in the region (while sea ice in Antarctica has been increasing on average, there have been significant declines off the West Antarctic coast for the last 25 years, and probably longer).

The ice in this region of approximately 100 kilometers in diameter is always thinner than the surrounding regions, and small areas of open water are common year - round.

The complete absence of multiyear sea ice in the region, confirmed by thickness surveys and local observations, is a first for the region in the past several decades.

The total area covered by thick older ice that survives one or more summers («multi-year ice») shrank 42 percent or 1.54 million square kilometers (595,000 square miles), leaving thinner first - year ice («seasonal ice») as the dominant type of ice in the region.

Scientists sailing on a research cruise in the Amundsen Sea, off the coast of western Antarctica, have found evidence of massive, ancient loss of ice in the region, resulting from contact with warmer seawater.

This ocean heat inhibited the growth of ice in these regions.

The ongoing loss of ice in a region that is on average not wamer in the latter part of 60 years (1941 - 2000) seems like a good reminder that it does not take a constant yeaer on year increase to cause pronounced natural response over large areas.

What causes the sea ice in this region to melt?

The problem is that ice in this region has been largely absent most summers since 2006, even though overall ice extent has been much more extensive than expected for a «nearly ice - free» summer, as I show below.

Some penguin species have already been displaced by the decline of ice in the region, and many populations will lose habitat in the decades ahead.

When there was less insolation during the summer months, the average temperature would be slightly lower and some of the ice in this region could survive and build up — eventually producing an ice sheet.