• How can improved estimates of sea
ice thickness help improve seasonal predictions of sea ice conditions?
Not exact matches
Use frozen fruit or
ice to
help increase smoothie
thickness.
The results, in the October 15 Science, agree with theoretical predictions, suggesting that superconducting gravimeters can
help satellites chart the earth's gravity to map changes in polar
ice cap
thickness, seawater levels, atmospheric density and planetary geology.
These flights also provided National
Ice Center scientists on the Polar Star with aerial footage they evaluated along with satellite imagery to help better understand ice thickness, age and other conditio
Ice Center scientists on the Polar Star with aerial footage they evaluated along with satellite imagery to
help better understand
ice thickness, age and other conditio
ice thickness, age and other conditions.
New way of measuring sea
ice thickness could
help assess how sea
ice is affected by climate change
Assimilation
helps constrain the
ice extent to observations and
helps improve the simulation of sea
ice thickness.
It is argued that uncertainty, differences and errors in sea
ice model forcing sets complicate the use of models to determine the exact causes of the recently reported decline in Arctic sea
ice thickness, but
help in the determination of robust features if the models are tuned appropriately against observations.
Earlier this year, a number of research groups was able to coordinate
thickness measurements (airborne, surface based and associated deployment of buoys) to
help us better understand the
ice thickness evolution in this sector of the Arctic.
Ship reports of sea
ice thickness will
help evaluate the vulnerability of the first - year and second - year
ice to solar and ocean heating.
Since 1950, Arctic sea
ice has lost half its area and half its
thickness,
helping to cause the phenomenon of Arctic amplification − the greater temperature rise (approaching 3 °C) observed in the Arctic than anywhere else on Earth.
Submissions of melt pond fraction,
ice thickness, and any other sea
ice parameter based on early - season data that could contribute to a status summary of pre-season conditions and
help inform subsequent contributions to the regular SIO monthly report.
She says improved summer weather predictions as well as satellite measurements of sea
ice thickness and concentration could
help forecasting.