Sentences with phrase «influence polar sea»

Naturally many factors influence polar sea ice extent, such as weather patterns, winds, -LSB-...]

Naturally many factors influence polar sea ice extent, such as weather patterns, winds,

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Oceanography postgraduates, for example, might study how coastal dynamics affect amphibious warfare, or how decreasing polar sea ice might influence global climate patterns.

«With most [species], we can identify a localized threat, but the threat to the polar bear comes from global influences on sea ice.»

The newly discovered phenomenon over the South Seas boosts ozone depletion in the polar regions and could have a significant influence on the future climate of Earth — also because of rising air pollution in South East Asia.

Sea ice is a crucial part of the ecosystems at both poles, providing habitat and influencing food availability for penguins, polar bears and other native species.

The strength of these currents is influenced by the location of the polar fronts as determined by sea level pressures in the Southern and Northern Annular Modes.

««In terms of the human influence on the Antarctic, I think you have to be very cautious about over-interpreting the results of the paper, that's the bottom line,» added Eric Rignot, a polar researcher with NASA and the University of California - Irvine who published a blockbuster study on the destabilization of the Amundsen Sea in 2014.»

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Screen (32) explored the influence of Arctic sea ice on European summer climate using a state - of - the - art atmospheric model in view of the historically unprecedented sequence of six consecutive wet summers from 2007 to 2012 in northern Europe, which featured a marked southward shift of the polar jet stream.

Factors like ENSO, the MJO, sea ice, snow cover, and oscillations in the tropical stratospheric winds have all been found to influence the strength of the polar vortex.

This in turn is influenced by sea level pressure patterns in polar and subpolar regions — as more or less wind and currents are pushed north (Roemmich et al, 2007, Qiu, Bo et al 2006).

You say anthropogenic influences on polar sea ice is not a difficult concept to understand.

Now, finally, to «the faith of the polar bear» — a species like any other, influenced by a myriad of environmental factors, including bullets and melting sea ice

In its first comprehensive report since winning a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, the IPCC is unequivocal about the influence of human activity, the progressive warming of the planet, the melting of the polar ice caps, and the rise in sea level.

While climate change does not affect Earth's tilt, it does have potential implications for many of the other factors that influence winter weather in the US, including Arctic sea ice, the polar jet stream, the polar vortex, and El Niño.

Features of the model described here include the following: (1) tripolar grid to resolve the Arctic Ocean without polar filtering, (2) partial bottom step representation of topography to better represent topographically influenced advective and wave processes, (3) more accurate equation of state, (4) three - dimensional flux limited tracer advection to reduce overshoots and undershoots, (5) incorporation of regional climatological variability in shortwave penetration, (6) neutral physics parameterization for representation of the pathways of tracer transport, (7) staggered time stepping for tracer conservation and numerical efficiency, (8) anisotropic horizontal viscosities for representation of equatorial currents, (9) parameterization of exchange with marginal seas, (10) incorporation of a free surface that accommodates a dynamic ice model and wave propagation, (11) transport of water across the ocean free surface to eliminate unphysical «virtual tracer flux» methods, (12) parameterization of tidal mixing on continental shelves.