Also, a recent analysis of Antarctic sea
ice trends for 1978 — 1996 by Watkins and Simmonds [2000] found significant increases in both Antarctic sea ice extent and ice area, similar to the results in this paper.
Shown below is the declining sea
ice trend for the month of January since satellite measurements began, in 1979.
Not exact matches
Replacing your existing
iced coffee program or simply adding cold brew coffee to your menu gives your customers an on -
trend coffee experience and can help drive profits
for you!
«The ongoing
trend of premiumisation in the desserts &
ice cream market has opened the door
for the application of salted caramel
for flavouring.
The NCAA football betting
trends are
ice - cold
for Illinois and red - hot
for Missouri here.
The most striking result, researchers said, is the consistent
trend across all polar bear regions
for an earlier spring
ice melt and a later fall freeze - up.
The process has to begin with a new idea
for a flavor or concept, which can come from just about anywhere — Spors keeps his eye on current industry
trends and new food products, as well as researching trade journals
for ideas that might work
for ice cream.
A new NASA
ice - elevation monitoring satellite called ICESAT, scheduled
for launch in 2001, will help scientists watch
for climate - change
trends near the poles over a longer time frame, he notes.
The results suggest that the impact of sea
ice seems critical
for the Arctic surface temperature changes, but the temperature
trend elsewhere seems rather due mainly to changes in ocean surface temperatures and atmospheric variability.
Scientists at the National Snow and
Ice Data Center (NSIDC), University College London, University of New Hampshire and University of Washington analyzed 300 summer Arctic sea ice forecasts from 2008 to 2013 and found that forecasts are quite accurate when sea ice conditions are close to the downward trend that has been observed in Arctic sea ice for the last 30 yea
Ice Data Center (NSIDC), University College London, University of New Hampshire and University of Washington analyzed 300 summer Arctic sea
ice forecasts from 2008 to 2013 and found that forecasts are quite accurate when sea ice conditions are close to the downward trend that has been observed in Arctic sea ice for the last 30 yea
ice forecasts from 2008 to 2013 and found that forecasts are quite accurate when sea
ice conditions are close to the downward trend that has been observed in Arctic sea ice for the last 30 yea
ice conditions are close to the downward
trend that has been observed in Arctic sea
ice for the last 30 yea
ice for the last 30 years.
«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.
If one looks at the
trend e.g.
for Illulisat / Jacobshaven (West Greenland), where
ice melting is increasing with app.
Rather sensitivity be tested today, when disappearing
ice is compelling, especially when some like Pielke call
for end of Global warming since 2002, when in fact it never stops, despite GT short time span
trends.
Current predictions [5], [6] suggest that
trends in sea
ice extent will alter in the second half of this century and that the annual average sea
ice extent will diminish by 33 %; most of this retreat is expected to occur in winter and spring [5], [6], with attendant risks
for emperor penguins.
On the Torne River, there was a corresponding
trend for earlier
ice break - up in the spring, as the rate with which the river moved toward earlier thaw dates doubled.
In addition to body changes, drastically less free time and money to spend on shopping, curating clothes, and paying attention to fashion
trends, and increased likelihood of kid staining, stretching clothes, theres also the fact that you basically put your entire wardrobe on
ice for a year or more due to pregnancy and nursing, so it doesn't really get the gradual updating over time that people normally do, so the little wardrobe details like how pants or sweaters fit or which boots you have will just be a little more behind the fashion curve.
Now, being acquainted with summer 2015 fashion
trends, you will certainly be able to prepare
for the coming season, choosing some sets of clothes
for the upcoming summer wardrobe, without forgetting the
icing on the cake!
No one is telling you that they don't want to check out that museum or eat that Instagram -
trending ice cream cone that you've been eyeing
for the past six weeks.
«Environmental scientists have been saying
for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental
trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting
ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storms,» 6.
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Extrapolating based on date from 1980 to the present yields and estimate around the 2040
for zero September
ice volume while using an apparent steeper
trend since 2000 yields an estimate around 2015
for the lower curve in fig. 1 or around 2020 using the upper curve as a guide.
Even the admirable Revkin doesn't get it quite right: On horizontal surfaces, observations and modeling show a role
for melting in both the baseline ablation and the sensitivity of ablation to precipitation and temperature; melting is the dominant ablation mechanism on vertical
ice cliffs; and though Kaser et al find «no evidence» about rising temperatures, it is only because the in situ studies don't cover a long enough period to detect
trends.
BTW, my fearless «denialism forecast»
for the next month is
for declining mentions of surface temperature
trends, 30 - 50 % chance of more scientist bashing, and sporadic outbreaks of «Arctic sea
ice recovery» — at least until the melting season gathers some steam.
Demonstrate that warming in the past tells us that warming will continue into the future, despite the fact that a very similar
trend in the opposite direction during the middle of the 20th century convinced so many that we were headed
for another
ice age.
For Fred Singer, a climatologist at the University of Virginia and another co-author, the current warming «
trend is simply part of a natural cycle of climate warming and cooling that has been seen in
ice cores, deep sea sediments and stalagmites... and published in hundreds of papers in peer reviewed journals.»
Now, no - one thinks that tree ring records have millennial scale non-climatic
trends (their problem is precisely the opposite, that the multi-century scale climate
trends might be damped), the same is true
for ice cores etc..
Even as the long - term
trend in the Arctic is toward less sea
ice in summers,
for decades to come — and routinely in other seasons — any nation with interests in the far north will need to be able to navigate in heavy
ice.
The only explanation that we have
for the sustained downward
trend in sea -
ice extent is the increase in greenhouse - gas concentrations.
This is also true
for trends in temperatures and
ice break up mostly everywhere else too, despite individual years (like 2013/2014) being anomalously cold (
for instance in the Great Lakes region).
I'm sure this is true
for Arctic sea
ice extent
trends as well, even though Gavin said he was fine with Judith's quoted paragraph pertaining to sea
ice.
The CMIP5 models seem to predict an Arctic free of summer sea
ice in a few decades but the real world
trend is
for this to happen in the next few summers.
If aerosols and GHGs have a lower forcing, that must be compensated by a larger forcing
for something else, to fit past temperature
trends (especially the 1945 - 1975 period and other — little —
ice ages).
Although there is still some disagreement in the preliminary results (eg the description of polar
ice caps), a lot of things appear to be quite robust as the climate models
for instance indicate consistent patterns of surface warming and rainfall
trends: the models tend to agree on a stronger warming in the Arctic and stronger precipitation changes in the Topics (see crude examples
for the SRES A1b scenarios given in Figures 1 & 2; Note, the degrees of freedom varies with latitude, so that the uncertainty of these estimates are greater near the poles).
If one looks at the
trend e.g.
for Illulisat / Jacobshaven (West Greenland), where
ice melting is increasing with app.
The same issues have dogged other attempts by climate scientists to glean clues on climate
trends from bodies of data collected by satellites and weather balloons
for other reasons (not to mention ongoing attempts to discern climate patterns in tree rings,
ice layers, and other natural substitutes
for thermometers; remember the «hockey stick» debate?).
We find that the available observations are sufficient to virtually exclude internal variability and self - acceleration as an explanation
for the observed long - term
trend, clustering, and magnitude of recent sea -
ice minima.
I see no alternative but that the model used
for calculating
ice volume has a built - in
trend mechanism, which may be non-linear.
If you plot the average Arctic Sea
Ice extent
for 20 years, the you should also plot the monthly maximum and minimum values on the same figure so that we can get some perspective on where the 2007 and 2008 data falls in the context of annual variability, or examine
for trends.
The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (whose reports are conservative by nature), and a range of other assessments all conclude with high confidence that —
for better or worse — the long - term Arctic
trend for summer sea
ice is down, given the projected buildup of greenhouse gases and tendency of the Arctic to amplify warming.
The
trend in declining Arctic Sea
Ice (NSIDC) is similar to the
trend for earlier Midwest Spring Snowmelt Runoff (mnforsustain.org).
So the main issue
for me is that all «serious» studies show only «statistical
trends» having some effects on some measurable quantities, (slight increase of average temperature, slight increase of sea level, slight decrease of northern, but not southern, sea
ice,..)
But all of the 15 teams offering projections say
ice extent will remain well below the average
for the last quarter century and a downward
trend in summer
ice around the North Pole has not abated.
This afternoon, I asked Marika Holland, a climate and
ice modeler at the National Center
for Atmospheric Research, to consider recent
ice trends in light of her work with Jennifer E. Kay and Alexandra Jahn on a paper finding likely periods of
ice recovery on the way to an
ice - free Arctic in summer.
But, he also says: «teams offering projections say
ice extent will remain well below the average
for the last quarter century and a downward
trend in summer
ice around the North Pole has not abated,» and we readers are then linked to his October, 2007 article and an August, 2007 image of a «warmed over» Artic.
As
for the
ice trends in that region, I've sent some queries to experts.
The past two weeks have not been good
for the Arctic and climate change: First, scientists discover that permafrost holds more greenhouse gases than we thought; Second, sea
ice melt - off is at its second greatest amount ever and could set a new record by summer's end; Third, new research confirms that the past decade has indeed been the warmest since the Romans occupied Britain, and the
trend is
for more warming.
Arctic sea
ice extent continues to
trend toward a record low
for 2017 - 18 because of stunning warm temperatures.
Right now, the
trend for sea
ice volume is down.
Study of Greenland
ice provides a 2500 year perspective indicating we headed into a mini-
ice-age as happened from the mid 1300's to the mid 1800's; and the data from the 1200 or so floating buoys around the world's oceans are likewise showing a cooling
trend, and have been
for some time.
Businesses, in order to plan
for this, have to really see this
trend over multiple years; they are not going to make huge investment based on one or two years [of low
ice conditions].