Sentences with phrase «ice loss in»

Assuming no unique atmospheric influence on ice loss in 2010 gives a September minimum of 5.0 million square kilometers.

The slowdown of ice loss in July contributed to upward revisions in 5 of the August Outlook contributions (e.g., Arbetter et al., Meier et al.; Kaleschke and Spreen; Kauker et al.; Lukovich et al.).

This pattern helped to accelerate ice loss in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, where ice loss rates doubled in August.

A new study has found that 40 million years ago a hotspot softened the mantle rock beneath Greenland in a way that has recently come to fool scientists trying to gauge ice loss in the area.

The Northwest Passage, while not yet open, has shown ice loss in the passage that is well ahead of average, according to the Canadian Ice Service.

Going forward, ice loss in Greenland and Antarctica will have varying effects on Earth's oceans.

On May 19 of last year, another study showed that the rate of ice loss in Antarctica has doubled since 2010, when compared to the period from 2005 to 2010.

Update: This story was updated to clarify that the majority of ice loss in Antarctica each year is replaced by new snowfall; The amount of ice loss that is not replaced by snowfall is increasing, adding to the continent's contribution to global sea level rise.

The acceleration of ice loss in both Greenland and Antarctica has caused another upward revision of global sea - level rise and the numbers of refugees expected from low - lying coastal areas.

«It's awfully suspicious that we had a 1 - in - 700 year event after the summer that we had the record sea ice loss in the Arctic,» explains Jeff Masters.

In their minds, ice loss in the Northern Hemisphere is caused by «global warming,» while ice gain in the Southern Hemisphere is the result of something else entirely.

The ice loss in the Northern Hemisphere is most likely the result of the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation, a completely natural phenomenon.

I think the operative statement is that we simply do not know enough about solar climate engineering to have much confidence in the outcome of some action taken to stop ice loss in the Antarctic.

One of the mechanisms discussed at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (that I linked to) was to do with ice loss in the Arctic influencing atmospheric and ocean coupling and reducing thermohaline circulation.

The rate of ice loss in the Arctic is staggering.

Although glaciers calving into the ocean cause much of the ice loss in Greenland, other research cited in the study shows that the majority of ice loss in recent years is from increased surface melt and runoff.

A Danish team last year also raised concern about the 600 - kilometre Zachariae ice stream, and confirmed that ice loss in the northeast of the island was accelerating.

The researchers failed to find any long - term trends in Arctic storminess, suggesting that summer weather hasn't been a major driver of the overall decades - long ice loss in the Arctic.

The Oceans Melting Greenland mission seeks to understand how ocean water is contributing to ice loss in Greenland.

But the vast majority of these projections do not take into account the possibility of major ice loss in Antarctica.

UW Today talks with Qinghua Ding and Axel Schweiger about a new study published in Nature Climate Change of how natural variability affects sea ice loss in the Arctic.

Steele, M., S. Dickinson, J. Zhang, and R.W. Lindsay, Seasonal ice loss in the Beaufort Sea: Toward synchrony and prediction, J. Geophy.

The Arctic has a lot of floating sea ice, and it is in the news a lot because it is decreasing dramatically, but sea ice loss in the Arctic does not directly contribute to sea level rise.

Using satellite measurements from the NASA / German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), the researchers measured ice loss in all of Earth's land ice between 2003 and 2010, with particular emphasis on glaciers and ice caps outside of Greenland and Antarctica.

And now we're actually seeing increased ice loss in the east, too.

We use our acceleration estimates to back calculate to a time of zero velocity, which coincides with the initiation of ice loss in Iceland from ice mass balance calculations and Arctic warming trends.

Researchers at the University of Texas, Austin, report that increased melting of the Greenland ice sheet — and to a lesser degree, ice loss in other parts of the globe — helped to shift the North Pole several centimeters east each year since 2005.

This pattern is supportive of sea ice loss in the Pacific sector of the Arctic as suggested by the sea ice extent analysis in Figure 2, and has been an important sea ice loss climate pattern since 2005, especially in summer 2007.

A new satellite study of ice shelves in West Antarctica has revealed they are steadily losing their grip with adjacent land and could intensify the acceleration of ice loss in the area.

Summer meteorological current conditions and projections this summer (see Figures 9 - 11) do not favor extreme mid to late summer sea ice loss in 2016, as occurred in 2007 and 2012, despite low sea ice extents at the beginning of summer.

«This study shows that ice loss in the north - east is now accelerating.

As a rough estimate, half of the current ice loss in West Antarctica is by melting where the glaciers meet the ocean, and half is by calving.

Rather than the AD pattern being relevant and impacting the Beaufort Sea, a key factor for sea ice loss in the last month is the strong continuing positive North Atlantic Oscillation pattern bringing warm temperatures to the North of Eurasia (Figure 4).

As discussed here, relative to the years of greater ice loss in Greenland, the rate of sea level rise should have dropped by an additional 1.3 mm / year in 2014.

The team believes the ancient tropical warming caused large, rapid atmospheric changes at the equator, the intensification of the Pacific monsoon, sea - ice loss in the north Atlantic Ocean and more atmospheric heat and moisture over Greenland and much of the rest of the Northern Hemisphere.

The rapid sea ice loss in early June 2012 and in other recent years was associated with the presence of the Arctic Dipole (AD) pressure pattern with high pressure on the North American side and low pressure on the Siberian side.

Blanchard - Wrigglesworth et al. show significant ice loss in East Siberia / Alaska, yet indicate a high probability of the North East passage being ice - bound.

Arctic «sea ice extent has varied naturally over the decades with some Russian data suggesting similar or even greater ice loss in some local areas in the 1930s» — Analysis of Arctic ice: «Russian data shows that the [Arctic] ice was just as thin in 1940 as it is now.

The June 2008 pressure pattern does suggest some support for sea ice loss in 2008 similar to that of 2007.

Rapid sea ice loss in the Arctic is opening new waters to humpback and fin whales, a new study revealed.

Box also seems not to be aware of glacial isostatic adjustment and the illusion of ice loss in Greenland and the Antarctic.

Another favourite climate nostrum was upturned when Pope warned that the dramatic Arctic ice loss in recent summers was partly a product of natural cycles rather than global warming.

This work showed that the rate of ice loss in Antarctica has doubled since 2010, when compared to the period from 2005 to 2010.

Except for early June, the weather was not particularly favorable for sea ice loss in summer 2012 as it was in 2007 and some other recent years.

He found that prescribed sea ice loss in the model caused a southward shift of the summer jet stream and increased northern European precipitation.

This is the ice sheet that currently experiences the largest ice loss in Antarctica yet the timescale and processes by which this may occur are still of significant uncertainty.

There was virtually no ice loss during June in the East Siberian Sea and ice loss in the Laptev Sea remained slower than normal (Figure 7).

Considered in isolation, the reduction in ocean heat transport implies a possible moderation in the rate of Arctic sea ice loss in the coming decade.

After above - average air temperatures and record ice loss in May 2010, the ice extent at the beginning of June fell below the previous record minimum for the same day in 2006.

Although ice extent at the end of June 2010 was slightly lower than that observed in 2007 (Figure 2), the persistence of the Arctic Dipole Anomaly (DA) throughout the summer of 2007 resulted in an acceleration of ice loss in July that led to the record low ice extent in September 2007.