Sentences with phrase «ice record shows»

-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.
Internal variability as estimated from observations can't explain sea - ice loss Superposition of a linear trend and internal variability explains sea - ice loss Observational sea - ice record shows no signs of self - acceleration
The instability was unlike anything the ice record showed for our current interglacial period.

Not exact matches

With many sanctuaries still showing the effects from months of arctic temperatures, ice, and record - breaking snowfalls, participants can be expected to match, if not surpass, the totals from the 2014 cleanup.
The fossil record showed that before the ice emerged, some dinoflagellates produced their own energy via photosynthesis; others fed on photosynthesising algae.
That's consistent with the fossil record, which shows glyptodonts evolved from medium - sized forms (about 80 kilograms) to become true megafauna in the Pleistocene (reaching 2,000 kilograms) before their disappearance at the end of the last ice age.
But is it a secret that satellites and ground observations show a meltdown in Arctic sea ice that will open new shipping lanes — and security concerns — for the first time in recorded history?
Record of melt from two west Greenland ice cores showing that modern melt rates (red) are higher than at any time in the record since at least 1550 CE (bRecord of melt from two west Greenland ice cores showing that modern melt rates (red) are higher than at any time in the record since at least 1550 CE (brecord since at least 1550 CE (black).
«While concentrations measured in Antarctic ice cores are very low, the records show that atmospheric concentrations and deposition rates increased approximately six-fold in the late 1880s, coincident with the start of mining at Broken Hill in southern Australia and smelting at nearby Port Pirie.»
The temperature records showed a warming spike after the 1970s, and the ice records documented that river ice is breaking up about nine days earlier now than last century.
Ice core records show atmospheric methane levels plunged from about 700 parts per billion to just 500 ppb at the time of their extinction.
This lottery has inadvertently accumulated almost a century of data on the river's thaw, and a recent analysis of town records shows that the ice cracks about 5 days earlier than it used to.
Later records show those conditions shifted in 2013 - 2014 to favor less melting, but the damage was already done — the ice sheet had become more sensitive.
The animation of satellite data shows the physical extent of the ice cover for each of those minimum dates, ending with the record low.
In a presentation Thursday at the Seismology Society of America's annual meeting in Anchorage, West showed that long - ignored data within the state's earthquake records faithfully capture dynamic change occurring above ground: ice breaking off of glaciers and falling into water, the phenomenon known as calving.
The geologic record shows that the differences in ice cover, sea level and precipitation as well as in plant and animal populations were quite dramatic between the ice ages and the warm interglacials.
The researchers used underwater microphones aboard buoys to record the ambient noises of a variety of ice breakups at the Hans Glacier in Norway and synchronized the recordings with time - lapse photos of the glacier (as shown in the video above).
Records of nitric acid and carbon - 14 in ice cores show that we have not had a solar flare bigger than the 1859 «Carrington event» since 1561.
«In fact because of the radar shows a mountain beneath the ice I think it has erupted in the past, before the rumblings we recorded.
His 2011 data show the lowest coverage of sea ice since records began.
So the climate experience was colder, as the atmospheric records from Greenland ice cores show.
Perhaps one day he will need an organ transplant or lifesaving surgery, but his insurance company will access his purchasing records and say, «We are sorry that we can not save your life, because our records show you have consumed too much Ben & Jerry's ice cream, bacon and eggs, and alcohol.»
The recent string of record - low winter maximums could be a sign that the large summer losses are starting to show up more in other seasons, with an increasingly delayed fall freeze - up that leaves less time for sea ice to accumulate in winter, Julienne Stroeve, an NSIDC scientist and University College London professor, previously said.
Complementary analyses of the surface mass balance of Greenland (Tedesco et al, 2011) also show that 2010 was a record year for melt area extent... Extrapolating these melt rates forward to 2050, «the cumulative loss could raise sea level by 15 cm by 2050 ″ for a total of 32 cm (adding in 8 cm from glacial ice caps and 9 cm from thermal expansion)- a number very close to the best estimate of Vermeer & Rahmstorf (2009), derived by linking the observed rate of sea level rise to the observed warming.
Climate records derived from the analysis of sediments show that ice shelves off the peninsula have been absent in several earlier eras, when natural variability warmed the world.
«Our work shows that the data collected is very well - suited for ice sheet science, and we can combine it with other satellite and airborne data sets to establish a more detailed record of these glaciers.»
Paleoclimate: I don't know for sure, but this record is too long (1 million years) to be an ice core, so I'm guessing it's a stacked sediment core, showing delta - O18 from ocean foraminifera.
Arctic sea ice through Feb. 3, 2016 shows the record low sea ice extent in January.
The extent of global sea ice coverage reached its smallest area ever recorded in 2016, new data show.
Ice core records show that atmospheric CO2 varied in the range of 180 to 300 ppm over the glacial - interglacial cycles of the last 650 kyr (Figure 6.3; Petit et al., 1999; Siegenthaler et al., 2005a).
Here we show that the East Greenland Ice Sheet existed over the past 7.5 million years, as indicated by beryllium and aluminum isotopes (10Be and 26Al) in quartz sand removed by deep, ongoing glacial erosion on land and deposited offshore in the marine sedimentary record.
Had he done so, he would have drawn a line that went up only 1/3 of the distance implied by the simple correlation with CO2 shown by the ice core record.
Reconstructions of past Hothouse climates had shown that temperatures had been around six degrees higher on average, and higher still in polar regions, with no polar ice - caps and a temperate to subtropical fauna and flora, as evidenced by the fossil record in these areas.
More recent studies, with much more precise correlation between ice cores and global temperature records, have shown that temperature and CO2 changed synchronously in Antarctica during the end of the last ice age, and globally CO2 rose slightly before global temperatures.
At least 60 occurred within the Holocene that are correlative over four Antarctic ice records with an example shown in Figure 6b.
Note that Figure 1 shows only the proxy record from the ice core - no instrumental data is included.
Scottish Ice & Snow Rally — Zoe Harrison reports on this event which turned out to be something of a misnomer / The 1922 Webb Super Nine — An account by Bryan Demaus of a little - known car briefly manufactured in Stourport - on - Severn / First of the Healeys — The Editor tells us how much he enjoyed driving the extremely rare 1947 Healey Westland / Three VSCC events — In his Diary of a dilettante Tom Threlfall records the action in Herefordshire and Wales and at Silverstone / 1931 Rambler Cross Country — Paul Ponsel writes about his encounter with this early American five - passenger phaeton / Motoring magazines over the years — A brief survey by Michael Worthington - Williams of the many periodicals on motoring that have been published / 1929 Armstrong Siddeley — David Hawtin describes a fabric - bodied l5hp saloon that took eight years to restore / Paris Retromobile — Peter Russell went to France again this year to visit the popular old - car show / Two Mercedes 38/250 SS — The story of the 1929 cars owned and raced by Lord Howe and Sir Malcolm Campbell is told by A.F. Rivers Fletcher
Breitling for Bentley's new super-sporty titanium model was revealed at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show to celebrate the ice speed record set two weeks ago by Finland's four - time world rally champion Juha Kankkunen in a Bentley Continental Supersports Convertible.
Instead of melting ice caps and imperiled polar bears, AHN / VHS» quiet, small works show — which features drawings, prints, video and mixed media — focuses on the daily weather data recorded at Long Island City's artist - run SP Weather Station....»
A full 900,000 years of ice core temperature records and carbon dioxide content records show CO2 increases follow increases in Earth's temperature instead of leading them.
This figure shows the changes seen in ice cores and the instrumental record.
And while you are at it, please explain why the ice core records show a past climate sensitivity of about 3 degrees C.
He makes the following statement, which is misleading if not outright wrong: Paleo records shows that both temperature and sea level have been mostly rising since last glacial maximum and more recently, since the so called little ice age.
Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).
In my briefings to the Association of Small Island States in Bali, the 41 Island Nations of the Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean (and later circulated to all member states), I pointed out that IPCC had seriously and systematically UNDERESTIMATED the extent of climate change, showing that the sensitivity of temperature and sea level to CO2 clearly shown by the past climate record in coral reefs, ice cores, and deep sea sediments is orders of magnitude higher than IPCC's models.
The first web page also has a link to global sea ice extent, and that shows that it is at a record low for the this day of the year, and has been very low for most of the year.
if the proxy record showed a period longer than 50 yr of cooling, wetness or dryness during the Little Ice Age, and similarly for a period of 50 yr or longer for warming, wetness or dryness during the Medieval Warm Period??
Results showed the storm caused the sea ice to pass the previous record 10 days earlier in August than it would have otherwise, but only reduced the final September ice extent by 150,000 square kilometers (almost 60,000 square miles), less than a 5 percent difference.
The sea ice concentration record from the Cryosphere Today site shows an unbroken chain of observations from 1979 to 2008.
Now the locations of avaialble proxy data (tree rings, ice cores, ocean sediment records, corals etc.) are not necessarily optimally spread out, but the spatial sampling error is actually quite easy to calculate, and goes into the error bars shown on most reconstructions.
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