Sentences with phrase «ice researcher»

«Most of the available data on snowfall in the Eurasian Basin is outdated, from drifting stations that operated between 1954 and 1991,» said Ron Kwok, a member of IceBridge's science team and a sea ice researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

I had long and interesting chat with sea ice researcher at the Open University, Mark Brandon before writing the article.

For a look at how this summer's Arctic sea - ice season may unfold, visit Sea Ice Outlook 2009, where more than a dozen groups of ice researchers are posting experimental forecasts of how the ice is likely to fare.

In an email, the University of Washington's Eric Steig, a leading Antarctic ice researcher, said the second scenario «is a very plausible explanation, but would be difficult to prove conclusively (since this happened 8,000 years ago!)»

See Chris Mooney's new Mother Jones profile of Ohio State ice researcher Jason Box for the latest example: «Why Greenland's Melting Could Be the Biggest Climate Disaster of All.»

In the next 24 hours, I'll be posting fresh excerpts from an extended and fascinating discussion of ice patterns since 2007 involving some of the world's top ice researchers — both modelers and field scientists like those I accompanied in 2003 on their annual North Pole expedition undertaken to monitor the vital signs of the ocean beneath the drifting sea ice.

But first here's more on this ice - core study and the broader context, including some great input from the wise and deeply experienced climate and ice researcher Richard Alley of Penn State.

(Keep in mind that almost all Arctic sea ice researchers add a big caveat when talking of an «ice - free Arctic Ocean,» noting that a big region of thick floes north and west of Greenland will almost surely persist in summers through this century, which is one reason some scientists have proposed targeting polar bear conservation efforts there.)

This excerpt echoes the thinking of quite a few ice researchers I've interviewed over recent years:

«No one knows for sure what will happen, as there might be a rebounding from the very large decreases last year, or there might be a continuation of those decreases,» Claire Parkinson, a NASA sea ice researcher said in an email.

Published on YouTube Aug 23, 2013: You've seen the great cockpit footage from Best of IceBridge Arctic» 13, now go behind the scenes for 9 minutes of scientific commentary with Operation IceBridge Project Scientist Michael Studinger and NASA sea ice researcher Nathan Kurtz, as they discuss the science behind the mission's study of Arctic sea...

«There's a lot of year - to - year variability in both Arctic and Antarctic sea ice, but overall, until last year, the trends in the Antarctic for every single month were toward more sea ice,» said Claire Parkinson, a senior sea ice researcher at Goddard.

Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University sent this additional thought after I sent a batch of ice researchers an e-mail last night seeking broader context for this year's ice retreat:

«Although there have been previous airborne campaigns in the Arctic, no one has ever mapped the large - scale depth of melt ponds on sea ice using remote sensing data,» says Nathan Kurtz, IceBridge's project scientist and a sea ice researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The study analyzed forecasts from the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) Sea Ice Outlook, a project that gathers and summarizes sea ice forecasts made by sea ice researchers and prediction centers.

«The conventional picture of Antarctic sea ice being a thin veneer over the ocean is probably only true for some portion of it,» says Ted Maksym, an ice researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts (WHOI).

But «while the Arctic maximum is not as important as the seasonal minimum, the long - term decline is a clear indicator of climate change,» Walt Meier, a sea ice researcher at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, said in a statement.

«Konrad and colleagues have extended a method that has promise for future monitoring of ice discharge into the ocean on a continent - wide scale,» Ryan Walker, a NASA ice researcher, wrote in an accompanying review piece.

While you wait for the exchange with ice researchers, I encourage you to explore the developing string of posts by Judith Curry of Georgia Tech, who led one of several research groups recently reporting links between summer ice loss and severe winter weather in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere (her relevant paper is here).

Hajo Eicken, an ice researcher at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, sent this note on the importance of tracking regional conditions as well as the overall picture:

In my piece weighing the merits of very different strategies for giving ice - dependent polar bears a chance in a warming world, I promised I'd post the views of some of the biologists, sea - ice researchers and climate scientists who've been tracking relevant questions.

Ignatius Rigor, a climate and ice researcher at the University of Washington (who's been heard from here quite a lot in recent years), added this note (in the group exchange with Francis, Eicken and others):

Zack Labe, an ice researcher at the University of California, Irvine, cautioned against a definitive call that maximum sea ice coverage had been reached this year.

This winter, Arctic weather stayed remarkably warm, to the extent that it surprised even veteran sea ice researchers.

The trouble is, sea ice researchers and atmospheric scientists have not drawn that conclusion, despite what a new paper by Pilfold and colleagues imply.

«One has to say that Arctic sea ice is completely different from Antarctic sea ice, which almost melts completely back each summer,» said Lars Kaleschke, an ice researcher with the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability at the University of Hamburg.

Arctic sea ice researchers are predicting that sea ice will no longer last through summers in the next couple of years, and even US Navy researchers have predicted an ice - free Arctic by 2016.

So keen are the ice researchers at the University of Illinois, there is even an application that can be run on web - enabled mobile phones.

«No one has ever, from a remote sensing standpoint, mapped the large - scale depth of melt ponds on sea ice,» said Nathan Kurtz, IceBridge's project scientist and a sea ice researcher at NASA Goddard.