Sentences with phrase «ice year»

That is surprising, since the asteroid's distance from the sun means it should lose about 1 metre of ice each year.

I think that it is in no way unexpected that we'd have a little more ice this year then last.

And other parts of the country more used to challenging winter weather have been getting an extra dose of wind, snow and ice this year as well.

It's rank in the 30 year record would would offer an interesting angle on the prevalence of rotten ice this year.

Eventually the north pole may flip and be free of ice year - round.

NSIDC scientists monitor and study Arctic sea ice year round, analyzing satellite data and seeking to understand the regional changes and complex feedbacks that we are seeing.

Greenland, it found, is losing 280 gigatons of ice a year on average, while Antarctica is shedding 120 gigatons — rates that both seem to be accelerating.

Is «complexity» an indicator which positively proves that less melting ice this year is caused by human global warming (btbw during a large temperature fall)?

And at high global latitudes, cold lakes normally covered by ice in the winter are seeing less ice year after year — a change that could affect all parts of the food web, from algae to freshwater seals.

Notable results included a report from researchers at MIT that Alaska lost an average of 10 and a half cubic miles of ice each year from 2003 to 2005.

The truth is that in the arctic we're seeing record low levels of sea ice year after year, including just this year, when in March the North Pole saw the lowest maximum ice extent on record.

Polar oceans freeze and the sun takes away ice every year until earth warms again.

Capital Weather Gang examined summer temperatures examined summer temperatures following the five highest ice years on the Great Lakes and found that they were below normal for much of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic.

Still, they indicate that some areas of the ocean are heating up especially fast, such as the Arctic Ocean — which this year had its lowest winter ice year on record — and is absorbing much more solar energy as melting ice cover exposes new dark surfaces.

In comparison to 2013, which was a high ice year for the Arctic — at least by modern standards (it was still the sixth - lowest extent on record!)

«The polar bears on Svalbard is round and full, thanks to a good [ice year] and good hunting opportunities.»

NASA has posted series of pictures of sea ice this year taken by its Aqua Earth - observing satellite.

(A separate group at the University of Texas published figures extrapolated from GRACE data showing that Greenland lost as much as 57 cubic miles of ice each year between 2002 and 2005; NASA shortly plans to publish data reconciling the two studies.)

But the average rate of ice thinning in West Antarctica has also increased, and this sector is now losing almost one third (31 %) as much ice each year than it did during the five year period (2005 - 2010) prior to CryoSat - 2's launch.

As a press release points out, the continent is packing on about two Dead Sea's worth of new ice each year.

And there is no doubt what so ever that the fauna and flora currently extant there are invasive species that would not have been viable if the area was covered with ice year around.

Even during mild ice years, thick multiyear ice is typically advected into these routes during the summer months.

«The Canadian Ice Service, an arm of Environment Canada, said there is 10 per cent more ice this year compared to the 30 - year average.

Pessimistic polar bear specialists are wrong — polar bears are much more resilient to low sea ice levels in summer than they assume: their own data from low summer ice years proves it.

And in actual fact, land ice in Antarctica is melting away extremely rapidly, and worldwide we're losing 450 billion tons of land ice every year.

Right now, about 200 gigatonnes of Greenland ice a year turn to water and run into the sea.

Survival of Barents Sea polar bears during low - ice years does not require emigration to another sea ice ecoregion or even another subpopulation area.

Today, the Arctic Ocean is covered with frozen ice all year long, an ice cap that has been there for about 14 million years.

John Nielsen Gammon has been sending around a frame comparing how in 1922 the farthest north that a expedition could get was 81o 29», open ice this year.

On top of meager ice conditions, some talk has focused on the percentage increase of sea ice this year over last year, which properly calculated, is close to 47 percent, according to Scambos.

According to NASA, Greenland loses about 11 billion tons of ice each year beginning in the 2000s but a mysterious melting process caused the Rink Glacier to lose an additional 6.7 gigatons in 2012.

The net loss of billions of tons of ice a year added about 11 millimeters — seven - sixteenths of an inch — to global average sea levels between 1992 and 2011, about 20 % of the increase during that time, those researchers reported.

«If you had had the conditions of 2007 again with the thinner ice this year there would have been record ice loss,» said Stroeve.

The Weddell Sea, which is where all the action is occurring, is choked with sea ice all year round, so it's not an open ocean that things can float free on.