Sentences with phrase «increasing ice coverage»

What confuddles me is this... why are both the poles showing increasing ice coverage if the ocean surface temps are so warm?

Or the ones with increasing ice coverage on them?

Not exact matches

Reduced lake ice coverage, in turn, increases the amount of sunlight lakes absorb.

«If ice caps and glaciers were to continue to crack and break into pieces, [the amount of] their surface area that is exposed to air would be significantly increased, which could lead to accelerated melting and much - reduced coverage area on the Earth,» Buehler said in a statement.

This changed ocean chemistry and reduced atmospheric CO2 levels, which increased global ice coverage and propelled Earth into severe icehouse conditions.

(There are equilibrium climates between the points where the runaway starts and where it ends, but they are unstable equilibria, and the equilibrium coverage of snow / ice increases with forcing that would cause warming.)

This increase was based on the June ice extent remaining within 1 sigma of the 1981 - 2010 long - term mean and nearly average melt pond coverage compared to recent years.

Then from 1995 to 2002, the ice area actually increased (although you would never read that in the popular press), it decreased again in 2004, and in 2005 it increased again â $ ¦ and at the end of 2005, the amount of Arctic ice was back to the 1979 - 2000 average ice coverage.

Ice ages come on slowly as the albedo from greater and greated snow coverage increases causing greater and greater cooling, but end rapidly as the melt back rapidly decreases the albedo.

Likewise NOAA's 2014 Arctic Report card also stated the «coverage of multiyear ice in March 2014 increased to 31 % of the ice cover from the previous year's value of 22 %.»

The NH had exceptional snow coverage this year and Arctic ice has been increasing!

The increase in longwave cooling is traced to decreasing coverage by ice clouds, potentially supporting Lindzen's «infrared iris» hypothesis of climate stabilization.

As to the Arctic icecap, the Daily Mail conveniently fails to mention that the 60 % increase in 2013 over 2012 still leaves the icecap coverage 20 % lower than it was in 1978, when NSIDC's record - keeping on the extent of Arctic ice began.

Or look at it the other way around: if the ice cover were a record high in late summer, the opportunity for ice growth (increased area coverage) would be reduced, since there would be less open water that could freeze over.

Sea ice has been slowly increasing in coverage, though this is largely due to variations in the Southern Annular Mode.

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

Note how they neglect to mention the increased Arctic ice coverage for the last 2 years by looking back to earlier averages?

Albedo should increase in response to very low solar conditions which should result in an increase in major volcanic activity, increase in global cloud coverage and sea ice / snow coverage.

The Statement also highlighted that long - term indicators of climate change such as increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, sea level rise and ocean acidification continue «unabated», with Arctic sea ice coverage remaining below average and the previously stable Antarctic sea ice extent at or near a record low.

Scientific confidence of the occurrence of climate change include, for example, that over at least the last 50 years there have been increases in the atmospheric concentration of CO2; increased nitrogen and soot (black carbon) deposition; changes in the surface heat and moisture fluxes over land; increases in lower tropospheric and upper ocean temperatures and ocean heat content; the elevation of sea level; and a large decrease in summer Arctic sea ice coverage and a modest increase in Antarctic sea ice coverage.

(2) Jeff Id's analysis of sea ice data showed no increase of ice coverage during the past 30 years.

However, it says «The increase in longwave cooling is traced to decreasing coverage by ice clouds, potentially supporting Lindzen's «infrared iris» hypothesis of climate stabilization.»