Sentences with phrase «ice loss near»

This year, we attempted to account for a lower rate of first - year ice loss near the pole, but our outlook was still significantly lower than the actual minimum.

The pattern in Figure 3 is favorable for sea ice loss near the Canadian side of the North Pole and in the Kara Sea, but not in the Pacific Arctic as in previous summers.

Not exact matches

Melting near the edges of the Greenland ice sheet, where the surface is below 4,000 feet, causes about half of its annual ice loss.

Located between Greenland and Russia, Svalbard experienced a near - complete loss of its vegetation during the last ice age and was quite sparse even 10,000 years ago, but today it is home to a thriving plant community.

The study, published this month in the journal Diversity and Distributions, is one of the first to consider the indirect effects of sea ice loss on Arctic species that dwell near the ice, but don't necessarily depend on it for survival.

Lead author Dr Malcolm McMillan from the University of Leeds said: «We find that ice losses continue to be most pronounced along the fast - flowing ice streams of the Amundsen Sea sector, with thinning rates of between 4 and 8 metres per year near to the grounding lines of the Pine Island, Thwaites and Smith Glaciers.»

Cordilleran Ice Sheet mass loss responded to climate reversals near the Pleistocene Termination

By my logic I'd apply the precautionary principle rather strongly if there was even a small chance of major effects such as near future sea ice loss...

It seems that the near - zero replenishment of the MY ice cover after the summers of 2005 and 2007, an imbalance in the cycle of replenishment and ice export, has played a significant role in the loss of Arctic sea ice volume over the ICESat record.

There continues to be significant excess heat storage in the Arctic Ocean at the end of summer due to continued near - record sea ice loss.

When this reinforces the anthropogenic change, it can cause RILEs [rapid ice loss events]-- but it can also counter that change and cause brief periods of near - stability (or even small increases on a decadal scale).

This in no way means that the ice loss is not large, important, and likely to result in near ice - free Septembers later this century though!

However, despite near normal rates of ice loss during the month, June 2015 was a relatively warm month (Figure 7) with 925 hPa air temperatures up to 2.5 C higher than average near the North Pole and East Siberian Sea, with even warmer air temperatures in the Kara Sea (up to 4.5 C).

-LSB-...] In fact, the global sea - ice record shows virtually no change throughout the past 30 years, because the quite rapid loss of Arctic sea ice since the satellites were watching has been matched by a near - equally rapid gain of Antarctic sea ice.

In 2010, a study using GRACE and Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements from three long - term sites on bedrock near the ice sheet found that the ice loss already documented over southern Greenland was spreading along the northwestern coast.

NSIDC scientist Walt Meier said: «Atmospheric and oceanic conditions were not as conducive to ice loss this year, but the melt still neared 2007 levels.

In more recent years, even as forecasts of global sea - level rise have been notched up, most projections have not taken into account the possibility of a significant, near - term ice loss from the West Antarctic.

In 2009 the DA was strong in June and July, suggesting a near record sea ice loss for that year, but by August the DA pressure pattern was replaced by the more normal low pressure center.

Continuous ice - melting due to glacier recession (loss of ice due to excess melting) caused the formation of seven new lakes near the mouth of the glaciers.

In the most dramatic of the simulated events, the September ice pack undergoes a 4 million square km loss (about 60 percent of the 1979 - 2000 ice cover) in only a decade, leading to near ice - free September conditions by 2040.

This is not because there was not thicker winter sea ice near Iceland (there was), but because that was more than compensated by sea ice losses in less accessible areas so that overall sea ice extent declined in that period (albeit, slowly):

Regardless of specific emissivities, temperature alone lets us state that ice - covered Arctic waters near the equinox at times of minimum Arctic sea ice extent will radiate more energy losses than ocean - covered sea waters at the same latitude and time of year!

The effect any previous year of sea ice reflectivity or heat loss or heat gain has been lost over the previous winter, and each year's energy budget must stand alone: That sea ice was near recent all - time highs in March and April 2012 indicates that an all - time sea ice low in September can't be attributed to any particular sea ice measurement in 2011, 2010, or 1979.

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Sustained warming greater than some threshold would lead to the near - complete loss of the Greenland ice sheet over a millennium or more, causing a global mean sea - level rise of up to 7 meters [23 feet](high confidence).

That was a key point of Part I of this post; that in the real world, key climate change impacts — sea - ice loss, ice - sheet melting, temperature, and sea - level rise — are all either near the top or actually in excess of their values as predicted by the IPCC's climate models.

After a slowdown in ice loss, however, measures are back to a near - normal range.

Because of changes in Earth's gravity field resulting from ice sheet mass loss, ocean sea level will actually drop near the areas of melt and rise elsewhere.

Khan, S. A., L. Liu, J. Wahr, I. Howat, I. Joughin, T. van Dam, and K. Fleming, GPS measurements of crustal uplift near Jakobshavn Isbrae due to glacial ice mass loss, J. Geophys.

But one modeling study put the threshold level for the eventual near - complete loss of Greenland's ice sheet at a local warming of just 2.7 C — which, due to Arctic amplification, means a global warming of only 1.2 C. Total melting of Greenland — luckily, something that would likely take centuries — would raise sea levels by 7 meters, submerging Miami and most of Manhattan, as well as large chunks of London, Shanghai, Bangkok and Mumbai.

Ocean warming near the Antarctic ice shelves has critical implications for future ice sheet mass loss and global sea level rise.