Sentences with phrase «ice thickness»

Our results stress the importance of considering loss of sea ice thickness in future climate change assessments.

It is considered the first large - scale assessment of ice thickness in the area.

It is therefore important to consider both loss of sea ice concentration and sea ice thickness in evaluating the response of the atmosphere.

In this study, we conduct sensitivity experiments to isolate the role of sea ice thickness on the atmospheric circulation.

However, they're not measuring ice thickness but ice draft, the amount of ice below the water line.

Some skill in predictability is possible based on the sea ice thickness distribution in spring.

The new ice thickness estimates will also be used to improve on - going seasonal predictions of sea ice extent.

In previous analyses the importance of the initial ice thickness distribution for the ensemble prediction was shown.

Summer sea ice continues to decline — the 2009 - 2010 summer sea ice cover extent was the third lowest since satellite monitoring began in 1979, and sea ice thickness continues to thin.

These contributors either used an ice model with a group of ensemble wind patterns or they applied a summer melt rate to different initial sea ice thickness categories.

They have several ice thickness measurements varying from just 6 points (1990) to more than dozen.

Yet, next to ice coverage and type, sea ice thickness plays the most important role in assessing shipping hazards and predicting ice break - up.

Recession of the grounding line means that the ice stream is grounded in deeper water, with a greater ice thickness.

• How can improved estimates of sea ice thickness help improve seasonal predictions of sea ice conditions?

This represents a net loss of ice thickness exceeding 14 m or 20 - 40 % of their total volume since 1984 due to negative mass balances.

Is it thicker snow cover with subsequent slowing down of winter ice thickness growth rate?

Ice thickness call - for - data now open!

That means only surface ice and does not include perennial ice and ice thickness as an ice extent chart does include.

The team planned to perform snow and ice thickness measurements at every camp site.

Our future work will assess how sea ice thickness loss contributes to the large - scale atmospheric circulation (see more).

Computer models of ice thickness, and maps of sea ice age both indicated a much thinner ice pack at the end of winter.

-- have they been asked to provide researchers with any Arctic ice thickness data?

And for years nuclear submarines (Russian, American and British) have been measuring ice thickness from the bottom, using their sonar.

Zhang and Lindsay, 5.1 (± 0.4), Modeling Our seasonal prediction focuses not only on the total Arctic sea ice extent and ice concentration field, but also on ice thickness field and ice edge location.

• Create a Bias - corrected Observed Ice Thickness Record consisting of all of the observations in the Sea Ice CDR adjusted by subtracting a constant bias for each system which is found relative to a standard observation system (submarines).

A new ensemble prediction from an ice - ocean model was submitted by Zhang for the July outlook and the new sea ice thickness map for September 2010 still shows ice remaining in Lancaster Sound.

The ice - ocean model is initialized with satellite estimates of ice concentration and model simulated ice thickness and ocean fields and is forced by the atmospheric fields from 2003 to 2009.

At Twitter Kirye posted an excellent GIF animation to compare Arctic sea ice thickness over the past 10 years:

Using ice thickness measurements collected by satellites from 1994 to 2012, glaciologist Fernando Paolo of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., and colleagues analyzed how recent warming has impacted Antarctica's ice.

Sea ice volume measurements, which take ice thickness into account, also hit a record low this year.