Sentences with phrase «ice retreat patterns»

Fowler, Drobot, and Maslanik (4 - no new data available - see June report) While no new data are available for the onset of ice retreat from Fowler et al., their earlier assessment of ice retreat patterns in this sector is still valid and appears to reproduce at least part of the retreat pattern, with a tongue of lingering ice north of Barrow.

Local knowledge of recurring ice retreat patterns constrained by, e.g., topography or ocean currents can further enhance outlooks at the regional scale, which is also discussed for the NWP below.

Not exact matches

Data collected by ship and model simulations suggest that increased Pacific Winter Water (PWW), driven by circulation patterns and retreating sea ice in the summer season, is primarily responsible for this OA expansion, according to Di Qi, the paper's lead author and a doctoral student of Liqi Chen, the lead PI in China.

The dramatic retreat of Arctic sea ice in recent years is changing disease patterns, altering the local food web and lowering the region's ability to reflect sunlight, according to two new studies.

By matching these isotope ratios to the astronomical cycle — Earth's orbit oscillates between an elliptical and circular path on a roughly 400,000 - year cycle — the researchers found that patterns of glaciation and ice retreat followed the eccentricity of our planet's orbitthey report in the December 22 Science.

They are identifiable in sea level rise, altered rainfall patterns, retreat of Arctic sea ice, ocean acidification, and many other aspects of the climate system.

Arctic Ocean Ice The latest summary of experts» projections for this summer's retreat of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean is out, and — partly because of different weather patterns than last year — the consensus for the moment is that the remarkable ice loss in 2007 will not be matched this yeIce The latest summary of experts» projections for this summer's retreat of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean is out, and — partly because of different weather patterns than last year — the consensus for the moment is that the remarkable ice loss in 2007 will not be matched this yeice on the Arctic Ocean is out, and — partly because of different weather patterns than last year — the consensus for the moment is that the remarkable ice loss in 2007 will not be matched this yeice loss in 2007 will not be matched this year.

«We think the recent snowy winters could be caused by the retreating Arctic ice altering atmospheric circulation patterns by weakening westerly winds, increasing the amplitude of the jet stream and increasing the amount of moisture in the atmosphere,»

Similar patterns of ice calving and retreat leading to rapid glacier acceleration have also been observed in Greenland.

Suffice it to say that there are indications that at least a major part of the current sea ice retreat is due to naturally occurring shifts in weather patterns, rather than simply to Arctic swarming caused by human GHG emissions, as some people apparently believe.

Pattern of retreat and disintegration of the Larsen B Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula.

Comment: Radiocarbon deglaciation chronology of the Thunder Bay, Ontario area and implications for ice sheet retreat patterns

And remember, the satellite data are one small part of a vast amount of data that overwhelmingly show our planet is warming up: retreating glaciers, huge amounts of ice melting at both poles, the «death spiral» of arctic ice every year at the summer minimum over time, earlier annual starts of warm weather and later starts of cold weather, warming oceans, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, more extreme weather, changing weather patterns overall, earlier snow melts, and lower snow cover in the spring...

From whale bones, 42 Arctic driftwood, 26 and patterns of Arctic shoreline erosion, 25 we also know that during the Holocene, Arctic summer sea ice retreated 1000 kilometers further north than seen today.

Well, more recent patterns of advancing and retreating ice suggest natural dynamics are the main drivers of today's retreating ice

I think as the snow / ice line has retreated north for the Northern Pacific the wind pattern has shifted with it.

There are no radical departures in this report from the previous assessment, published in 2007; just a great deal more evidence demonstrating the extent of global temperature rises, the melting of ice sheets and sea ice, the retreat of the glaciers, the rising and acidification of the oceans and the changes in weather patterns (3).

Seasonal sea ice retreat in 2012 began with a major reduction event in early June (Figure 2) associated with persistent high pressure over the Beaufort Sea and low pressure over the Kara Sea, now referred to as the Arctic Dipole (AD) weather pattern (see discussion of the AD in previous Outlooks).

While the world is seeing real impacts (from ice retreats to changing weather patterns) from heating, which science links to CO2 (and other) emisssions.

Scientists have recently observed major changes in these glaciers: several have broken up at the ocean end (the terminus), and many have doubled the speed at which they are retreating.2, 5 This has meant a major increase in the amount of ice and water they discharge into the ocean, contributing to sea - level rise, which threatens low - lying populations.2, 3,5 Accelerated melting also adds freshwater to the oceans, altering ecosystems and changing ocean circulation and regional weather patterns.7 (See Greenland ice sheet hotspot for more information.)