Sentences with phrase «important volume of ice»

Not exact matches

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.

Abstract: Mid - to late - Holocene sea - level records from low - latitude regions serve as an important baseline of natural variability in sea level and global ice volume prior to the Anthropocene.

While extent is a traditional measure of sea ice, volume is also important.

And it's also important to remember that, while sea ice is increasing in Antarctica, glaciers and ice shelves are all melting rapidly, producing large volumes of fresh water.

However, atmospheric CO2 content plays an important internal feedback role.Orbital - scale variability in CO2 concentrations over the last several hundred thousand years covaries (Figure 5.3) with variability in proxy records including reconstructions of global ice volume (Lisiecki and Raymo, 2005), climatic conditions in central Asia (Prokopenko et al., 2006), tropical (Herbert et al., 2010) and Southern Ocean SST (Pahnke et al., 2003; Lang and Wolff, 2011), Antarctic temperature (Parrenin et al., 2013), deep - ocean temperature (Elder eld et al., 2010), biogeochemical conditions in the Northet al., 2008).

Volume gives us an idea on how much freshwater is stored in Arctic sea ice — an important element in the global - Arctic hydrological cycle, i.e., the cycle of distillation due to freezing, and subsequent export, and melt.

Clearly, the sea ice volume data plot is the single most important topic of discussion, yet in the article it is shown in Figure 1 with a poor vertical scale and amongst linear trend lines which mislead and make the curve appear to be linear and reach the zero point far out in the future.

The ice loss amounts to a freshwater volume which should have made an important contribution to the observed decrease in salinity in the northern Atlantic — probably including the «great salinity anomaly» of the 1970s, famous amongst oceanographers.

If you're not refuting the volume analysis, then I can't see how you can say focusing on ice volume is «a bit funky» — it's clearly a more important measure of the system's ability to recover, which is the central point of this post.

While it's important to know the volume of an ice sheet - or how much space it takes up - it can change without affecting the amount of ice that is present.

In that case it is important to have a more precise statement, so I went back to check the reference Journal of Marine Systems Volume 48, Issues 1 - 4, July 2004, Pages 133 - 157 Sea ice from the Kara Sea region reaches Fram Strait from 2 to 4 years (min 2 years) on average, and while sea ice from the Laptev Sea takes roughly 4 — 6 years (min 3 years) to reach Fram Strait»... from the East Siberian, Chukchi and Beaufort seas within 6 — 10 years.

The long - term trend is what matters, and the most important of all metric in sea ice is volume.

There is, however, a subtle but important qualification: if Artic ice should melt, the sea level will not change because the volume of water created by melting ice is equal to the volume of water that ice displaces when floating.

Stroeve said that sea ice volume, which incorporates measurements of ice extent as well as thickness, is a more important metric than sea ice extent alone.

Trends in sea ice thickness / volume are another important indicator of Arctic climate change.