Sentences with phrase «land ice cover»

Some people say the Snowball did cause global sea icecover, and essentially global land ice cover.

Few AOGCMs include ice sheet dynamics; in all of the AOGCMs evaluated in this chapter and used in Chapter 10 for projecting climate change in the 21st century, the land ice cover is prescribed.

Not exact matches

It's estimated that roughly 99 percent of Earth's land ice is stored in the ice sheets that cover Antarctica and Greenland, so their health is something scientists — and the world — can no longer ignore.

Ice covers 99 percent of Antarctica, sudden snowstorms can bury dig sites, and gale - force winds scour the land.

Capt. Roald Amundsen, the discoverer of the Northwest Passage, left Norway in June, 1910, in the «Fram,» seemingly with the intention of sailing around Cape Horn, however, he sailed to the westward across the South Pacific, and made a landing at whale Bay on the ice sheet covering Ross Sea.

Huygens came to rest in what looked to be a floodplain strewn with «stones» of water ice polished smooth by flows of liquid methane, and it touched down with a crunch that suggested its slushy landing site was covered in a frozen glaze — a bit like crème brûlée.

Steve: And another factor you mention in the article is 30 percent of the land on the Earth that isn't covered with ice is used for grazing livestock and growing animal feed.

About 85 percent of Earth's ice - free lands is covered by vegetation.

The area covered by all the green leaves on Earth is equal to, on average, 32 percent of Earth's total surface area — oceans, lands and permanent ice sheets combined.

During ice ages, glaciers scour and cover large swaths of land, wiping out plant communities for millennia.

Grey areas are barren land or ice covered.

Leaving aside the collapse of the Larsen - B ice shelf and other ice shelves in Antarctica, is it too simplistic to expect that dramatic changes should be anticipated first in the Arctic because it is sea covered by a few meters of sea ice and therefore more susceptible to change, in comparison to Antarctica (which is obviously land covered by glacial ice up to several kilometers thick in places)?

Whilst it's natural to start with air temperatures, a more thorough examination should be as inclusive as possible; snow cover, ice melt, air temperatures over land and sea, even the sea temperatures themselves.

However, it's quite a different matter melting a long - lived massive ice sheet up to 1.5 km thick that covers over 70 % of the land surface (as happened at the end of the last glacial period), from melting isolated and much thinner ice caps / sheets that only cover about 11 % of the land surface (i.e. present - day).»

For example, the agency is partnering with the Indian Space Research Organization to develop the NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission that will routinely provide systematic observations of Earth's land and ice - covered surfaces at least twice every 12 days, enabling greater scientific understanding of the dynamic processes that drive the Earth system and natural hazards, as well as providing actionable support for disaster response and recovery.

After landing, Huygens photographed a dark plain covered in small rocks and pebbles, which are composed of water ice.

The importance of orbital variations, of the greenhouse gases CO2, CH4 and N2O, of the albedo of land ice sheets, annual mean snow cover, sea ice area and vegetation, and of the radiative perturbation of mineral dust in the atmosphere are investigated.

Now as vast areas of land which are currently forested, were covered by the glacial period ice sheets, the temperate forest is no longer using carbon dioxide which adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

Crown of the Ivory King, the third and final downloadable add - on coming to Dark Souls 2, will send players to a frozen, desolate land where blinding snowstorms and ice - covered monsters will deliver...

Crown of the Ivory King, the third and final downloadable add - on coming to Dark Souls 2, will send players to a frozen, desolate land where blinding snowstorms and ice - covered monsters will deliver what may the game's most difficult challenge yet.

As glaciers and ice caps melt, Louisiana is losing land to the sea and barrier islands are gradually slipping beneath the watery surface, drowned by a slowly rising tide, a process suggested by the cover photo.

Lost and damaged, the crew must land the ship on a strange ice covered world.

Covered in snow, this northern land dotted with houses made of ice will let you play four daytime & two nighttime levels, but be warned — you'll have to maneuver through some icy caverns and sharp icicles!

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As a letter written by a group of scientists from the Scott Polar Research Institute says, «Recent satellite images of Greenland make it clear that there are in fact still numerous glaciers and permanent ice cover where the new Times Atlas shows ice - free conditions and the emergence of new lands».

In addition, since the global surface temperature records are a measure that responds to albedo changes (volcanic aerosols, cloud cover, land use, snow and ice cover) solar output, and differences in partition of various forcings into the oceans / atmosphere / land / cryosphere, teasing out just the effect of CO2 + water vapor over the short term is difficult to impossible.

Leaving aside the collapse of the Larsen - B ice shelf and other ice shelves in Antarctica, is it too simplistic to expect that dramatic changes should be anticipated first in the Arctic because it is sea covered by a few meters of sea ice and therefore more susceptible to change, in comparison to Antarctica (which is obviously land covered by glacial ice up to several kilometers thick in places)?

This empirical climate sensitivity corresponds to the Charney (1979) definition of climate sensitivity, in which «fast feedback» processes are allowed to operate, but long - lived atmospheric gases, ice sheet area, land area and vegetation cover are fixed forcings.

But on the bright side, he noted, in a joking reference to the meeting's Danish hosts, the retreat of the sheath of ice covering Greenland, which is Danish - controlled territory, «would increase your usable land by, I don't know, 10,000 percent.»

We present our best estimate of the thickness and volume of the Arctic Ocean ice cover from 10 Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) campaigns that span a 5 - year period between 2003 and 20ice cover from 10 Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) campaigns that span a 5 - year period between 2003 and 20Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) campaigns that span a 5 - year period between 2003 and 2008.

East Antarctic ice sheet: Abrupt (geologic, but still shortish), absolutely catastrophic (even over centuries; 70 meters covers an awful lot of arable land and infrastructure, and there's no guarantee that the remaining dry land will be an Eden).

About half the world's land area that isn't covered with ice or sand is devoted to food production.

The weight of the ice cover compressed land that now is tending to rise to the earlier level.

Now as vast areas of land which are currently forested, were covered by the glacial period ice sheets, the temperate forest is no longer using carbon dioxide which adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

Polar bears living in regions (such as Hudson's Bay and Svalbard) that were not ice covered all year round even before global warming spend the warmer months on land where they are a real danger (male polar bears are the only healthy carnivore that routinely stalks and hunts people).

F. Engelbeen's claim that he only looked at land temperature trends, while Johannessen e.a. mainly looked at sea surface temperatures and ice cover is a Tech Central Station like.

In both cases we're talking about seasonal sea ice floating in a thin layer on the sea, next to cold and ice - covered land.

If that happened a natural barrier to the flow of ice from glaciers and land - covering ice sheets into the oceans would be removed.

China's melting glaciers Xinjiang covers one sixth of China's land surface and contains 47 % of nation's ice stock.

Ocean and land surfaces warm at different rates, and land covered by vegetation absorbs and reflects solar energy differently than do deserts or ice - caps.

9137 cubic km is approximately equivalent to Canada's entire land mass covered by 1 m of ice [9,137,000 sq km x 1m].

The geophysical record of the Earth tells the story of warm periods and huge dinosaurs that once flourished and then perished and ice ages and long periods when mile - deep glaciers covered the lands.

The ice shrinkage has meant that polar bears, which are strong swimmers, have had to cover longer distances between ice and land.

These methods have been significantly improved by fully coupling the hydrologic cycle among land, lake, and atmosphere.94, 95 Without accounting for that cycle of interactions, a study96 concluded that increases in precipitation would be negated by increases in winter evaporation from less ice cover and by increases in summer evaporation and evapotranspiration from warmer air temperatures, under a scenario of continued increases in global emissions (SRES A2 scenario).

The 2009 State of the Climate Report of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) tells us that climate change is real because of rising surface air temperatures since 1880 over land and the ocean, ocean acidification, sea level rise, glaciers melting, rising specific humidity, ocean heat content increasing, sea ice retreating, glaciers diminishing, Northern Hemisphere snow cover decreasing, and so many other lines of evidence.

The Arctic is an ocean covered in ice, ringed by land (whereas the Antarctic is a lump of land covered in ice, ringed by ocean).

Both rise in some heavily sunken areas with massive glaciers and subsistence in land tide gauges in areas not covered by ice 15,000 years ago.

20,000 years ago Vermont was covered by a mile of ice and migration to North America was by land across the Bering Strait.

Indeed, as I mentioned back in Germany, the earth is now thought to have become completely covered with ice and snow on some occasions, all of the land and sea surfaces white except for a few hot springs areas such as Iceland.

The IPCC has issued comprehensive assessments in 1990, 1996, 2001, 2007 and 2013, methodology reports, technical papers, and periodic special reports assessing specific impacts of climate change (the latest ones in the works: oceans and ice cover, land degradation, impacts of 1.5 °C warming).