Sentences with phrase «less ice extent»

Less clouds, less snowfall, less ice extent causes the warm.

A Roman or Medieval or Modern warm time is a time with less ice extent.

Half a million less ice extent is a lot more extra open ocean with far lower albedo.

Not exact matches

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Today the only place we have massive ice sheets is in the East Antarctic and to a lesser extent the West Antarctic, but now the world is twice as hot.

What is alarming is that the volume of water and the extent and rapidity of its movement is suprisingly much greater than previously believed, and that a possible, perhaps likely, effect of this on ice sheet dynamics is to make the ice sheets less stable and more likely to respond more quickly to global warming than previously expected.

The global mean temperature rise of less than 1 degree C in the past century does not seem like much, but it is associated with a winter temperature rise of 3 to 4 degrees C over most of the Arctic in the past 20 years, unprecedented loss of ice from all the tropical glaciers, a decrease of 15 to 20 % in late summer sea ice extent, rising sealevel, and a host of other measured signs of anomalous and rapid climate change.

Sea ice extent has dropped precipitously as has the amount of old ice, which is less prone to breakup.

With increasingly less multi-season ice, rebuilding previous sea ice extent gets harder and harder.

Ice Cube's Doughboy, one of Tre's best friends, gets off a touching curtain speech, but it's a bit too little and too late, and to a lesser extent Morris Chestnut's Ricky fails as well.

Its simple, winter was much smaller in extent, mimicking directly the lesser volume of Arctic sea ice.

Today the only place we have massive ice sheets is in the East Antarctic and to a lesser extent the West Antarctic, but now the world is twice as hot.

As you are probably aware, the Barents Sea and to a somewhat lesser extent the Kara Sea had quite late icing up this year (as opposed to other NH basins which more or less froze up on queue).

By comparison, the actual minimum ice extent was 18 percent less than the previous record set in 2007.

Results showed the storm caused the sea ice to pass the previous record 10 days earlier in August than it would have otherwise, but only reduced the final September ice extent by 150,000 square kilometers (almost 60,000 square miles), less than a 5 percent difference.

The established icons of Arctic climate change are the polar bear and, to a lesser extent, those indigenous communities that are trying to maintain traditional ways in the face of slushy floes and the relentless erosion of coasts exposed to waves as sea ice retreats.

There was a USGS 2010 paper by D Douglas that predicted «For the Bering Sea, median March ice extent is projected to be about 25 percent less than the 1979 — 1988 average by mid-century and 60 percent less by the end of the century» But if Bering ice is driven by the PDO I suspect that prediction will fail.

This cooling all combines to let the ice extent spread further south (meaning an even higher albedo, less H2O, less CO2, etc., and so the ice age deepens and temperatures continue to drop).

There was a USGS 2010 paper by D Douglas that predicted «For the Bering Sea, median March ice extent is projected to be about 25 percent less than the 1979 — 1988 average by mid-century and 60 percent less by the end of the century» But if Bering ice is d»

The ice extent was even less than we have today.

The Independent story headline is a small gamble, there can be massive cloud coverage (occurring as I write) continuing from the usual great snow and ice Arctic summer melt, but I am quite sure the ice extent may be equal or less than last year come September 20.

On the admittedly tenuous observation that conditions this April seemed different than last April (colder and less windy), I'll bet on a little greater ice extent inn Fall 08, but I wouldn't wager a lot of money on it.

Based solely on how high the A.O. has been this winter, I would expect higher sea - ice extents, or less retreat across most of the Arctic seas.

From the Archives, Oct. 2, 2009 The established icons of Arctic climate change are the polar bear and, to a lesser extent, those indigenous communities that are trying to maintain traditional ways in the face of slushy floes and the relentless erosion of coasts exposed to waves as sea ice retreats.

NASA GMAO (Cullather et al.), 5.03 (+ / - 0.41), Modeling The GMAO seasonal forecasting system predicts a September average Arctic ice extent of 5.03 ± 0.41 million km2, about 4.7 percent less than the 2014 value.

Wind blows it one way... you get less extent and thicker ice....

«By «ice - free», scientists usually mean a sea ice extent of less than one million square kilometres, rather than zero sea ice cover.

In fact it was running hotter as demonstrated by two big ice melt years and less sea ice extent in general.

Prior to 1978, satellite measurements of sea ice extent are not available and the data is much less reliable.

There has been a long - term downward trend in summer global sea ice extent, though the trend is less clear in the winter, reflecting the fact that the Arctic shows a clearer long - term trend than the Antarctic.

Though most of the CMIP5 models project a strong > nearly ice - free Arctic (sea ice extent less than 1 × 106 km2 for at least 5 consecutive years)...

«Though most of the CMIP5 models project a nearly ice - free Arctic (sea ice extent less than 1 × 106 km2 for at least 5 consecutive years) at the end of summer by 2100 in the RCP8.5 scenario...»

For high GHG emissions such as those corresponding to RCP8.5, a nearly ice - free Arctic Ocean (sea ice extent less than 1 × 106 km2 for at least 5 consecutive years) in September is likely before mid-century (medium confidence).

When there is less summer sea ice extent, the rebound to the following Spring maximum is greater.

Though most of the CMIP5 models project a nearly ice - free Arctic (sea ice extent less than 1 × 106 km2 for at least 5 consecutive years) at the end of summer by 2100 in the RCP8.5 scenario (see Section 12.4.6.1), some show large changes in the near term as well.

«CMIP5 models project a nearly ice - free Arctic (sea ice extent less than 1 × 10 ^ 6 km2 for at least 5 consecutive years) at the end of summer by 2100 in the RCP8.5 scenario... «Assume a 15 km2 million max and 3 km2 million min.

Gauthier et al. (Canadian Ice Service); 4.9 Million Square Kilometers; Heuristic / Empirical The Canadian Ice Service (CIS) is predicting the minimum arctic sea ice extent to be less than 5 million square kilometres in September 20Ice Service); 4.9 Million Square Kilometers; Heuristic / Empirical The Canadian Ice Service (CIS) is predicting the minimum arctic sea ice extent to be less than 5 million square kilometres in September 20Ice Service (CIS) is predicting the minimum arctic sea ice extent to be less than 5 million square kilometres in September 20ice extent to be less than 5 million square kilometres in September 2010.

1 it is less than 1m sq km of Sea Ice EXTENT so, suppose your best instrument is a satellite with a 25 sqkm footprint.

The September sea ice extent anomaly should demonstrate tendencies of more ice in the Pacific and less ice in the Atlantic sectors.

My calculation is that the Arctic sea ice extent is down a little less than 32 % from the first complete year of the satellite record — 1979.

It is important to understand that the maximum extent of sea ice during the winter is a less important climatic indicator than the minimum extent in summer.

Sampling areas were split according to their ice cover: North - West (less sea ice cover), South - East (larger amplitude in sea ice extent) and North - East / South - West (NESW) as bears from that zone are more mobile among all regions of Svalbard.

The total extent of the Arctic sea ice reached 5.59 million square miles, which is about 450,000 square miles less than the average and 20,000 square miles more than 2017.

From October 1 to 15, ice extent increased only 378,000 square kilometers (146,000 square miles), less than a third of the 1981 to 2010 average gain for that period.

However, of the 19 participants in the SIO June report, for example, 10 projected a September ice extent of 4.4 million square kilometers or less; thus, the majority of the participating groups were low relative to past years and thus were strongly in the right direction.

«The dramatic changes in lake ice may also contribute to further warming of the entire region, because open water on lakes contributes to warmer air temperatures, albeit to a lesser extent than open seawater,» Surdu said.

In forcing the model with these winds, only the case of using winds from 2007 to project 2008 sea ice extent produce less sea ice than the observed 2007 ice extent (Ensemble member 7).

Summer 2008, though having a larger ice extent, has less ice than summer 2007.

Lukovich and Barber: The results from an investigation of stratospheric circulation in winter and spring, and comparison of summertime surface winds and SLP with vortex splitting and minima in sea ice extent composites suggested that the September, 2009 ice extent would be comparable to or less than the September ice extent minimum in 2008, based on dynamic considerations.

Five (5) respondents suggest a return toward the long term trend line of summer sea ice loss, but less than the 1979 - 2000 mean extents;