Sentences with phrase «ice thickness in»

The primary variable, however, is ice thickness in spring, derived from AMSR - E 36 GHz polarization ratio.

Figure 1: (a) Ensemble prediction of September 2011 sea ice thickness in the Northwest Passage region and (b) ensemble standard deviation (SD) of ice thickness, which shows the uncertainty of the prediction.

The average sea ice thickness in 2012 was just 1.25 meters, down from 3.59 meters in 1975, studies show.

Combined data sets of draft and thickness from submarine sonars, satellite altimetry and airborne electromagnetic sensing provide broadly consistent and strong evidence of decrease in Arctic sea ice thickness in recent years.

Collow, T.W., W. Wang, A. Kumar, and J. Zhang, Improving Arctic sea ice prediction using PIOMAS initial sea ice thickness in a coupled ocean - atmosphere model, Mon..

CryoSat was launched in 2010 to measure sea - ice thickness in the Arctic, but data from the Earth - observing satellite have also been exploited for other studies.

Ensemble prediction (starts 1 July 2009) of ice thickness in the Northwest Passage region for September 2009 (Zhang).

«Ice thickness in the Beaufort Sea and Northwest Passage in April 2016, and comparison with April 2015.»

NASA's Operation IceBridge monitors ice thickness in polar regions using instrument - laden aircraft during a break between satellite observations from 2009 to 2016.

Birthing success of female ringed seals (Phoca hispida) is also affected by regional sea ice thickness in early spring.

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

Kaleschke and Rickert — provided ice thickness estimates for the area based on CryoSat - 2 and SMOS; March 2013 ice thickness in the area was greater than in 2012

(left) Ensemble prediction of September 2013 sea ice thickness in the Northwest Passage region from the PIOMAS model.

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

(a) Ensemble prediction of September 2012 sea ice thickness in the Northwest Passage region and (b) ensemble standard deviation (SD)[Zhang and Lindsay].

(a) Ensemble prediction of September 2011 sea ice thickness in the Northwest Passage region and (b) ensemble standard deviation (SD).

This year's sea ice thickness in spring can be estimated to be the thinnest among the recent 6 years.

ESA's ice mission has become the first satellite to provide information on Arctic sea - ice thickness in near - real time to aid maritime activities in the polar region.

We used the ice thickness in December, ice movement from December to April, and ice concentration in June.

``... Ice thickness in winter and early spring of 2008 is quite thinner than in 2007 in most of the Pacific sector where ice disappeared in summer 2007.

Why do you think the average sea ice thickness in the Arctic never got far above 3m in the twentieth century?

The following site states German researchers from the Alfred - Wegener - Institute for Polar and Marine Research found that mean ice thickness in September 2007 is 1 metre, down by half from 2001.

The researchers combined data gathered from the buoys between 2002 and 2015 with satellite estimates of ice thickness in this region to better understand changes affecting the Arctic Ocean in recent years.

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

The research paper, «Ice Thickness in the Northwest Passage,» was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Haas and his team, including Stephen Howell of Environment Canada, measured first - year and multiyear ice thickness in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago using an airplane equipped with an electromagnetic induction sounder or EM bird.

«Then we got the first measurements of ice thickness in Antarctica.

A further bias toward lower ice thicknesses in the actual forecast as compared to the hindcast initialization is also suspected.

Results show that ice thicknesses in the Northwest Passage were similar in both years, although there was less multiyear ice (MYI) in 2016 (Section 2.2).

Not exact matches

The chain is famous for its Blizzards, a soft - serve treat with mix - ins like Oreos and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups that is served upside down to highlight the thickness of the ice cream.

In Grayslake, the Fire Protection District checks ice thickness, and the Park District uses a colored rating system to warn people about conditions.

Morris uses the information she gathers on these trips to check the accuracy of data collected by a European satellite, Cryosat - 2, that tracks changes in the thickness of polar ice — information that tells scientists how quickly that ice is thawing.

Millan, a UCI graduate student researcher in Earth system science, and his colleagues analyzed 20 major outlet glaciers in southeast Greenland using high - resolution airborne gravity measurements and ice thickness data from NASA's Operation IceBridge mission; bathymetry information from NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland project; and results from the BedMachine version 3 computer model, developed at UCI.

• From 1976 to 1999 the average thickness of ice in the Arctic Ocean had dropped 43 percent.

Last week, Thompson's colleagues measured the ice levels at survey poles that they had inserted last year; more than a meter of ice had melted in 12 months, out of a total thickness of 20 to 50 meters.

The thickness of the ice, and its overall volume, may be a more important measure of what is happening in the Arctic over the long term, even though it is not as simple to measure, said Overland.

Their icebreaker was cutting through ice that was only 1 metre thick — compared to the 3 - metre thickness in the past — when they saw the phytoplankton.

«This shift is characterized by the persistent decline in the thickness and summer extent of sea - ice cover and by a warmer, l

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These bands, with alternating wind motions, are created by differences in the thickness and height of the ammonia ice clouds; the lighter bands rise higher and have thicker clouds than the darker bands.

the south - bound expedition had cleared that vast plain of floating ice which flows down from the great mountains of the interior and covers the southern part of Ross Sea throughout an area above 20,000 square miles with an ice sheet approximately 800 feet in thickness, and had begun to climb the heights which form the mountainous embayment at the head of Ross Sea.

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.

Differences in soil thickness, depth to any ground ice table, atmospheric circulation and sunshine may contribute to hemispheric differences in the progression of hydration along latitudes.

After compiling 10 floe - scale maps of the ice from the Weddell, Bellingshausen, and the Wilkes Land regions of the continent, the researchers found that the sea ice thickness tended to be highly variable, with many ridges and valleys, they report online today in Nature Geoscience.

Located in the ocean off Canada's Nunavut province, the new observatory will monitor in real - time environmental factors like temperature, salinity and ice thickness.

However, the discovery in 2015 of an oscillation in Enceladus's rotation known as a libration, which is linked to tidal effects, suggests that it has a global ocean and a much thinner ice shell than predicted, with a mean thickness of around 20 km.

Although CryoSat - 2 is designed to measure changes in the ice sheet elevation, these can be translated into horizontal motion at the grounding line using knowledge of the glacier and sea floor geometry and the Archimedes principle of buoyancy — which relates the thickness of floating ice to the height of its surface.

In addition to the thickness of the snow cover on top of the sea ice, the buoys also measure the air temperature and air pressure.

For six weeks the researchers collected radar data to map changes in ice shelf thickness to understand the processes that contribute to melting at its base.