Sentences with phrase «ice over a larger area»

«The low pressure tends to spread out the ice over a larger area, slowing the decline in extent,» he added.

This pattern brings more clouds, lower temperatures, and winds that spread the ice over a larger area.

Not exact matches

Due to global warming, larger and larger areas of sea ice melt in the summer and when sea ice freezes over in the winter it is thinner and more reduced.

And over the past 18 months, two of the peninsula's largest ice shelves, the Larsen B and the Wilkins, have lost nearly 1,100 square miles of their total area, a sheet of ice about the size of Rhode IslandCK.

«For the first time, we've been able to use a special net directly below the sea ice to catch a large number of polar cod, and therefore to estimate their prevalence over a large area.

The slipperiness, caused by films of water spread over large areas, helps ascertain how quickly a melting ice sheet will slide into the sea as the climate warms — and thus how quickly sea levels will rise.

The global climate models do a good job of simulating the process of sea ice formation over large areas in the open ocean.

For their work Maksym and co-investigators Guy Williams from the University of Hobart, Tasmania and Jeremy Wilkinson of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK, used a robot known as an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to cruise under ice in three regions near the coast and measure the thickness directly over a much larger area.

Two years ago, Antarctica's Larsen B ice shelf collapsed over the course of 35 days; 3,250 square kilometers of shelf area — an area larger than that of Rhode Island — disintegrated.

As ice is composed by sweetwater, the cold meltwater is spread over large areas in the north.

Either the glaciers would have to flow into the ocean at unrealistic rates, or rapid melting would have to be triggered over a much larger area of the ice sheet than current evidence suggests.

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Combined with a large decline in MY ice coverage over this short record, there is a reversal in the volumetric and areal contributions of the two ice types to the total volume and area of the Arctic Ocean ice cover.

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«The novel aspect of our work is the use of a high - resolution ice - sheet model over a larger area and longer time - scale than previously attempted.

For several days this month, Greenland's surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observations.

As evident in the figures the near surface air temperatures are actually warmer over the Arctic Ocean (by over 1 °C in large areas) when the sea ice absorbs solar radiation and transfers some of this energy as sensible heat back into the atmosphere.

I have no axe to grind, but my view is that sudden drops in ice extent are more explainable if a large area at the edges thins over several years, thus allowing a big chunk of melting.

Earth's climate has varied widely over its history, from ice ages characterised by large ice sheets covering many land areas, to warm periods with no ice at the poles.

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.

If the «boxes» are so large that every land area is considered equal — how are coastal regions and ice - covered areas modelled as they change over the year?

6 Ice age — time in the past when continental glaciers covered large parts of Earth's surface Global warming — a gradual increase in the temperature of Earth's atmosphere Greenhouse gas — Gases in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, that trap solar energy Ozone hole — a large area of reduced ozone concentration in the stratosphere, found over Antarctica Chlorofluorocarbon — chlorine compounds that are the main cause of ozone depletion KEY TERMS

«There are also big ponds that might dry out over large areas, as well as soils underlain by a network of ice wedges where warming could lead to a thermokarst, or a slumping, of the land surface as permafrost thaws and the ice wedges melt.

Either the glaciers would have to flow into the ocean at unrealistic rates, or rapid melting would have to be triggered over a much larger area of the ice sheet than current evidence suggests.

Although the pole was obscured by clouds, the images show how fractured the ice was near the pole and the many large patches of open water over much of the area.

17), and the ice has thinned significantly over a large area.

Is it not obvious that around the world during a major climatic shift with large areas of ice receding and forest growing over thousands of years, you are going to get a mix of proxy temperature records!!

In 2002, the Larsen B ice shelf collapsed; in 2003, the World Glacial Monitoring Service reported that «The recent increase in the rates of ice loss over reduced glacier surface areas as compared with earlier losses related to larger surface areas (cf. the thorough revision of available data by Dyurgerov, 2002) becomes even more pronounced and leaves no doubt about the accelerating change in climatic conditions.»

As a consequence, over the past 30 years, areas of ocean that are at least 15 percent ice have decreased annually by nearly 390,000 square miles, an area larger than Norway, Sweden, and Denmark combined.