Sentences with phrase «in arctic»

A better idea of the energy balance in the arctic might help me understand events there better.

With polar sea ice [not polar ice caps] for about 30 years we have been fairly accurately measuring it, and in arctic it has significantly decreased, 2007 and 2012 were lowest ice extent during summer.

Therefore, the effect of warming in the arctic is cooling at the lower latitudes, from increased albedo from clouds and snow, and transportation of colder air from the arctic.

I am currently working on my article «Historic variations in arctic ice - part two.»

that described that warming in the arctic would lead to more snow (more water vapor, and though warmer, not warm enough so it would not snow, but instead snow more) later springs and the reversal of the very pattern that was warming, Such things take decades and centuries.

Recent discoveries of methane hydrate in arctic and deep - water marine environments have highlighted the need for a better understanding of this substance as a natural storehouse of carbon and a potential energy resource.

In the arctic region of Alaska, permafrost warmed up to 5.4 °F (3 °C) from 1980 to 2000.

A look at the DMI site reveal no summer warming, but winter warming in the arctic, I would venture to say that the warming between the arctic and antarctic circles is far less than warming north and south of it.

Snow distribution in the arctic.

This is nothing but a political ploy to hold up polar bears in the arctic as a reason to halt production of a new power plant in, say, Texas.

I have been wondering if the amount of heat required to melt (latent heat of fusion and all that) the vast amounts of ice in the arctic and the various ice glaciers contributes at all to the stabilizing of the rising global temperature.

D / L aspartic geochronology in arctic chronosequences.

BTW, come April is a report coming on polar bears in the arctic.

The oceans are rising in an accelerated fashion, attesting to the effect of massive melting of ice in the arctic and antarctic.

(Remember, it's completely dark in the arctic / antarctic in winter due to Earth's tilt.)

Wang, J., J. Zhang, E. Watanabe, M. Ikeda, K. Mizobata, J.E. Walsh, X. Bai, and B. Wu,» Is the dipole anomaly a major driver to record lows in arctic summer sea ice extent?»

If projects can be designed for +135 degrees (f) in the desert and -60 degrees (f) in the arctic, the range of temperature increase due to global warming can be easily considered.

Significant changes in arctic climate have been detected in recent years.

And seems to me that this large increase of 2 C in global temperatures would probably include arctic polar ice melting in summer, so as to allow ice free travel in arctic during most summers.

which is why you will see an increased trend in arctic ice extent over the next 20 years plus, along with net cooling of the northern hemisphere, though by your account of the oceans sequestration of CO2, ocean acidification will go through the roof at the same time.

Though the dirty energy industries» dislike of Obama seems a bit misplaced, (between allowing widespread fracking and his support of drilling offshore and in the arctic, Obama has given the fossil fuel lobby plenty) it does make sense that they would support Mitt Romney.

I used to read Stevenson screen temps when I worked in the arctic and the height was not an issue for anyone over 5 feet tall IMO, based on recollection.

The most recent calculations of ice mass balance in the antarctic also do indicate loss of ice, though nothing close to the changes seen in the arctic sea ice and Greenland ice sheet.

A price paid in the arctic.

They attempted to live a European lifestyle in an arctic climate, side by side with Inuit who easily outlasted them.

If world leaders in Paris are serious about holding global temperatures from warming above 2 C, drilling in the arctic would be impossible as well as 75 percent of drilling of Canadian oil, according to a study by the University College of London.

Other references seem to demonstrate a higher surface trend as compared to lower troposphere trend over extra-tropical land, especially in arctic, due to polar amplification.

Its not an absence of ozone production — or you would same in arctic.

Ultimately for me as a non expert, I haven't seen any convincing explanation to explain why the paleo record (which shows a warmer arctic and no corresponding large methane release) isn't a good analogue of the current warming trend in the arctic.

Until I do see such an explanation I will find it very hard to accept that there is an imminent methane bomb in the arctic.

If this pattern should be reestablished it would likely lead to a stronger reversal of the decline in arctic sea ice.

To summarise the arguments presented so far concerning ice - loss in the arctic basin, at least four mechanisms must be recognised: (i) a momentum - induced slowing of winter ice formation, (ii) upward heat - flux from anomalously warm Atlantic water through the surface low ‐ salinity layer below the ice, (iii) wind patterns that cause the export of anomalous amounts of drift ice through the Fram Straits and disperse pack - ice in the western basin and (iv) the anomalous flux of warm Bering Sea water into the eastern Arctic of the mid 1990s.

yet 13 years of ice return and static levels in the arctic would cause little cold build up yet we have amplification?

If you don't have data in the arctic you can't use it in a global average.

Evaluation of seven different atmospheric reanalysis products in the arctic.

As for «melting in the arctic, droughts, shifting climate zones, increased ocean temps and sea level rise», these things have always happened and always will happen, as will their opposites.

A different understanding doesn't stop melting in the arctic, droughts, shifting climate zones, increased ocean temps and sea level rise or the need to anticipate changes these realities will FORCE on society, changes that can't be made quickly.

The topic I would want to follow up is that addressed in questions 1, 2 and 6, namely whether previous high temperatures in the arctic were global or local; this is a topic he really should know something about.

In arctic regions, the acceleration of permafrost thaw and deepening of the seasonal active layer leads to thaw pond formations due to the organic and ice - rich ground subsiding [1]--[2].

Dark Snow Project is supporting Snow Chemist Ross Edwards in an ice sheet transit via the amazing Wind Sled — a new initiative in Green Science in the arctic.

I was at the Met office library on Tuesday collecting information for an article I am wtiting on the historic variations in arctic ice.

More coverage in the arctic, as seen in the GISS data leads to a greater positive temperature anomaly.

As a result of a weakening polar vortex, the movement of the air mass in the arctic begins to change.

Below are examples of photos show the strongest and most obvious result of global warming; retreating glaciers, melting ice and shrinking snow cover occurring in the arctic region of the world.

(c) It may also be objected that the atmospheric circulation depends on the difference of temperature between low and high latitudes and, hence, should be weakened instead of strengthened by a warming in the arctic.

That the last little bit of ice in the arctic is melting, an ice sheet that once covered huge swaths of North America as far south as the US Rockies, upper Midwest and all of New England, is hardly proof that humans are changing the climate.

Nor the droughts and heat waves in the USA or the melting ice in the arctic.

This dependence is a function of ocean water temperature, as the the ratio of D / H in the arctic snow.

I've long wondered how those arguing that the recent decline in arctic sea is natural cyclical variation can explain the long history of failed attempts to explore the northwest passage by sea.

Inversion layers are common in arctic and inversion layers inhibit lapse rates - they are layers of warm air and are due number of factors.