Sentences with phrase «ice increase from»

When we see 2009 ice increase from 2008, then that will mean there is more 2 + year ice than in the previous couple years.

A map of the sea ice increase from the same month last year Increase twice the size of Germany: «colder weather» to blame.

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In recent years, a slow drip of products with maple flavour has increased to a spring - thaw gush, including everything from icing, chips, ice cream, tea, coffee and even beer.

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

Additionally, ice sheets are sometimes affected by increased ocean temperatures that literally undermine the ice sheets and melt them from below.

Traditional ice cream can be made from milk, half and half, or whipping cream and the richness of the ice cream increases with the amount of fat.

Emergency department visits for ice hockey - related injuries among U.S. children aged 9 to 14 soared from 2,935 in 1990 to 7,713 in 2006 — an increase of 163 percent, researchers have found.

It cites numerous ways in which climate change is already threatening Europe, including glacial retreat in Europe's mountain systems, flooding from the melting ice - caps and increased water demand in the Mediterranea.

When parks Commissioner Baye Muhammad proposed raising the fee from $ 2 to $ 3 for ice skaters at Clinton Square, 5th District Councilor Nader Maroun questioned how the city could increase fees and buy new equipment at the same time it is closing the Benderson center.

And when they land on Greenland's snow and ice, their ability to absorb heat from sunlight increases surface melting.

Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) found that rates of high - dose opioid dispensing across Canada increased from 781 units per 1,000 people in 2006 to 961 units per 1,000 people in 2011.

NSF: A $ 113 million increase proposed for the agency's $ 4.2 billion research budget hides a $ 48 million transfer from the U.S. Coast Guard to take on the annual cost of breaking ice to keep the shipping lanes open in the Antarctic.

The notion that we have free will flies in the face of much modern neuroscientific research, which suggests an ever - increasing number of our «choices» are somehow hardwired into us — from which candidate we vote for to which flavor of ice cream tops our cone.

Yet these model - based estimates do not include the possible acceleration of recently observed increases in ice loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.

Ice loss from northeast Greenland into the Fram Strait abutting the Arctic Ocean is now closer to 15 to 20 metric gigatons a year and is still increasing, said Khan.

«You see a rapid increase in population size from about 18,000 years ago, just as the climate began warming up after the last Ice Age,» says lead author Rebecca Dew.

Sea ice - associated decline in body condition leads to increased concentrations of lipophilic pollutants in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from Svalbard, Norway.

As the climate changes, Southern Ocean upwelling may increase, which could accelerate ice shelf melting, release more carbon into the atmosphere and limit the ocean's ability to absorb heat and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Some glaciers on the perimeter of West Antarctica are receiving increased heat from deep, warm ocean currents, which melt ice from the grounding line, releasing the brake and causing the glaciers to flow and shed icebergs into the ocean more quickly.

After further analysis of the data, the scientists found that although a strong El Niño changes wind patterns in West Antarctica in a way that promotes flow of warm ocean waters towards the ice shelves to increase melting from below, it also increases snowfall particularly along the Amundsen Sea sector.

The scientists looked into the hypothesis that soot from forest fires in China, Siberia and North America could be driving the increased darkening of the ice sheet.

For one thing, he says, it contains a scenario in which the fresh meltwater from ice sheets increases exponentially over time, «which may not be realistic.»

Pine Island Glacier and the neighbouring Thwaites Glacier are responsible for nearly a third of total ice loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and this contribution has increased greatly over the past 25 yeaice loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and this contribution has increased greatly over the past 25 yeaIce Sheet, and this contribution has increased greatly over the past 25 years.

«Greenland's ice is getting darker, increasing risk of melting: Feedback loops from melting itself are driving changes in reflectivity.»

As this happens, the floating ice shelf in front of it also lengthens and thins, increasing its chances of breaking and allowing even more ice to flow out from behind it.

«The rise at the end of the Ice Age and today is about the same [a rise of 100 ppm] and we're going to be well above and beyond,» most likely increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases by hundreds of parts per million from preindustrial levels, Shakun notes.

Soot spewing from increasing shipping traffic plying Arctic waters could further darken whatever snow and ice remains.

Erosion has also increased during winter; shrinking lake ice — a product of climate change — does not protect the dune from winter winds as it has in the past.

«Detailed chemical measurements in Antarctic ice cores show that massive, halogen - rich eruptions from the West Antarctic Mt. Takahe volcano coincided exactly with the onset of the most rapid, widespread climate change in the Southern Hemisphere during the end of the last ice age and the start of increasing global greenhouse gas concentrations,» according to McConnell, who leads DRI's ultra-trace chemical ice core analytical laboratory.

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.

Less than a year after the first research flight kicked off NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland campaign, data from the new program are providing a dramatic increase in knowledge of how Greenland's ice sheet is melting from below.

As the ocean warms and fresh water from melting ice increases, scientists have yet to fully know how that will affect fish communities and coral reefs.

Accumulating data from across the globe reveal a wide array of effects: rapidly melting glaciers, destabilization of major ice sheets, increases in extreme weather, rising sea level, shifts in species ranges, and more.

So when wind pulls warm water up from down deep, the temperature difference experienced at the interface of the water and ice can effectively submerse the glacier in a hot bath, with some areas experiencing more than a 10-fold increase in melt rate.

The results now published in Environmental Research Letters seem to contradict the data from a satellite mission based on other measuring methods, which indicates a slight increase in mass in the glacier ice for an almost identical period of time.

The argument is that the increased separation of the Antarctic land mass from South America led to the creation of the powerful Antarctic Circumpolar Current which acted as a kind of water barrier and effectively blocked the warmer, less salty waters from the North Atlantic and Central Pacific from moving southwards towards the Antarctic land mass leading to the isolation of the Antarctic land mass and lowered temperatures which allowed the ice sheets to form.

«This does not necessarily mean that a similar response would happen in the future with increasing CO2 levels, since the boundary conditions are different from the ice age,» added by Professor Gerrit Lohmann, leader of the Paleoclimate Dynamics group at the Alfred Wegener Institute.

Whales may actually benefit from less ice cover, at least initially, as the open water could expand their feeding habitats and increase food supplies.

The increase could be due to a combination of stronger winds spreading out the sea ice and fresh water from melting ice on land diluting seawater so it freezes at higher temperatures.

The destabilization of this marine - based sector will increase sea - level rise from the Greenland Ice Sheet for decades to come.

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.

The International Polar Year (2007 - 2008) was an obvious starting point for the research with a huge increase in the number of blogs originating from and written «on the ice.»

A new study shows how huge influxes of fresh water into the North Atlantic Ocean from icebergs calving off North America during the last ice age had an unexpected effect — they increased the production of methane in the tropical wetlands.

By 1900, increased emissions of soot could have triggered the loss of more than 15 m of ice from a glacier's surface; by 1930, the loss could have totaled 30 m or more — magnitudes and timing that can easily account for the Alpine glacial retreat, the scientists contend.

North America would be especially hard hit, because gravitational effects mean that ice loss from Antarctica will lead to bigger local increases for the US East Coast.

This ongoing ice retreat is spawning a variety of changes in the Arctic ecosystem, from increased parasites in caribou herds to a growth in annual tundra fires in Alaska, according to the assessment in Science last week, which reviews prior data.

As their hunting behavior shifts from ice to land, the polar bears «have progressively arrived earlier and earlier to have access to more eggs,» says biologist Børge Moe, another principal author of the study who works at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Kongsfjorden, where seabird egg predation is just beginning to increase.

As global temperatures continue to increase, the hastening rise of those seas as glaciers and ice sheets melt threatens the very existence of the small island nation, Kiribati, whose corals offered up these vital clues from the warming past — and of an even hotter future, shortly after the next change in the winds.

«The fact that the mass loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet has generally increased over the last decades is well known,» Khan said, «but the increasing contribution from the northeastern part of the ice sheet is new and very surprising.&raqIce Sheet has generally increased over the last decades is well known,» Khan said, «but the increasing contribution from the northeastern part of the ice sheet is new and very surprising.&raqice sheet is new and very surprising.»

In a computer simulation that includes detailed interactions between wind and sea, thick ice — more than 6 feet deep — increased by about 1 percent per year from 1979 to 2010, while the amount of thin ice stayed fairly constant.