Sentences with phrase «lakes at high latitudes»

This is especially true for lakes at high latitudes that are covered in ice each winter but may see less ice as temperatures rise.

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Previous work by Hook using satellite data indicated that many lake temperatures were warming faster than air temperature and that the greatest warming was observed at high latitudes, as seen in other climate warming studies.

And at high global latitudes, cold lakes normally covered by ice in the winter are seeing less ice year after year — a change that could affect all parts of the food web, from algae to freshwater seals.

«Ever since the lakes and seas were discovered, we've been wondering why they're concentrated at high northern latitudes,» said Elizabeth (Zibi) Turtle, a Cassini imaging team associate based at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. «So, seeing that there's something special about the surface in this region is a big clue to help narrow down the possible explanations.»