Sentences with phrase «in sea ice»

And this doesn't cover changes in sea ice extent.

Nearly all models to date project a slight decline in sea ice extent at present and for the next several decades.

This suggests that the recent decline in sea ice extent represents a significant change in conditions from 1981 to 2010 time period.

A reduction in sea ice extent could increase the direct transfer of gas from the ocean to the atmosphere.

(4) This goes against everything, given the fact that we are observing an increase in sea ice extent.

They found that upon ending the experiment, the planet would experience a rapid increase in global mean temperature, along with increases in global mean precipitation rate and decreases in sea ice cover.

2016's low summer sea ice extent fits with the decades - long trend showing a rapid decrease in sea ice extent.

The recent drought is also outside the study's scope because the researchers focused on potentially larger losses in sea ice than have occurred to date.

And, third, the natural fluctuations in sea ice over multiple decades are generally smaller than the year - to - year variability.

Are you implying that weather is wildly unstable and unpredictable, and that for instance annual variations in sea ice are predictable and smooth?

Additionally, changes in sea ice levels associated with global warming have made it difficult for the hunt to carry on as smoothly as before.

The effects may be more impressive than if it occurred during other parts of the year as we are only few weeks away from the annual summer minimum in sea ice area.

If this greenhouse gas finds its way into the water, it can also become trapped in the sea ice that forms in these coastal waters.

The reason it is a mystery is because that increase in sea ice coverage is contrary to the theory of global warming.

And anomalies in sea ice and air temperature occurred at the same locations.

The biologists involved were interested in finding out how organisms living in the sea ice and the underlying water column adapt to the thinner ice cover.

But what about the differences in sea ice between the two regions?

He pointed to computer models he and his colleagues studied that project a 30 percent decline in sea ice by 2050.

This has a much more realistic representation of the year - to - year fluctuations in sea ice, as well as the long - term trend.

First crystals of calcium carbonate are formed in sea ice in winter.

But we have a new normal in the sea ice cover — a normal that has less ice, thinner ice, younger ice.

Researchers have been working to improve models to better reproduce the observed increase in sea ice there and predict what the future may bring.

The cooler ocean there should lead to a nice rebound in the sea ice this winter.

Ice seals, one of the primary diets of polar bears, give birth in snow caves dug in sea ice during late springs.

The observed drastic reduction in sea ice can also lead to a «tipping point» — a point beyond which an abrupt or irreversible transition to a different climatic state occurs.

As well as changes in sea ice, they considered other possible explanations for the changing behaviour observed.

This process should be independent of the season of the year and the fresher water flowing out on the surface may help to explain the increase in sea ice.

But the reason behind the record drop in sea ice isn't as simple as you might think.

There is no indication at all that we have seen a comparable decline in sea ice for thousands of years — certainly not in the 1920s, as we know from ship's observations.

The clear evidence is that the minimum in sea ice is on a downward trend.

The trend in PC2 is congruent with an additional 2 — 14 % decrease in sea ice concentration in the Amundsen Sea and a relatively small amount of warming (~ 0.5 °C) in WA.