Sentences with phrase «less ice loss»

While three predicted less ice loss in 2008 than in 2007 and were correct.

Not exact matches

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The recent string of record - low winter maximums could be a sign that the large summer losses are starting to show up more in other seasons, with an increasingly delayed fall freeze - up that leaves less time for sea ice to accumulate in winter, Julienne Stroeve, an NSIDC scientist and University College London professor, previously said.

During the later period, when there was less sea ice, the whales dove significantly longer and deeper than in the earlier period — presumably in search of prey as the animals, in turn, changed their habits because of different ocean conditions brought on by sea ice loss.

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.

This melt is the primary control on Antarctic ice - sheet loss, as the thinner ice shelves are less able to buttress ice in the interior, leading to faster ice flow.

The findings also show that the loss of ice from calving has remained more or less constant through the 20th century, says Dr Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist at the Danish Meteorological Institute who wasn't involved in the study.

Cold exposure, ranging from cryotherapy to ice baths, is trending in the weight - loss world, but what if something a little less brutal could deliver the same metabolism - boosting benefits?

Will less ice and snow in the Arctic during winter increase, decrease or be about the same radiation loss as years with thick multiyear ice?

Combined climate / ice sheet model estimates in which the Greenland surface temperature was as high during the Eemian as indicated by the NEEM ice core record suggest that loss of less than about 1 m sea level equivalent is very unlikely (e.g. Robinson et al. (2011).

Following this summer's new record ice loss, the Arctic will enter a winter with even less ice than ever before, leading to even thinner ice, which barring any monumental external events like a major volcanic eruption, will likely perpetuate the trend in sea ice decline.

Warm oceans take a lot of heat loss to freeze and the closer to freezing they start the less heat loss before ice forms.

The physical justification for this statement is based primarily on the loss of old, thick sea ice and the increased mobility of sea ice (less extensive, thinner ice is more mobile).

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The volume of the ice lost is much less than that from the loss of a comparable area by Jakobshavn because the ice is an order of magnitude thinner.

What is unclear here is the period on which the «normal statistics» is computed, since the past data are obviously much less known, with a considerable loss of variance (the «constant» ice minima are obviously wrong).

The loss of large areas of ice on the surface could accelerate global warming because less of the sun's energy would be reflected away from Earth to begin with (refer back to our discussion of the greenhouse effect).

Five (5) respondents suggested a less dramatic loss than in 2007 (ie., 4.3 million square kilomoters)-- closer toward the long - term trend line of summer sea ice loss;

The July 2008 pressure pattern suggests some support for additional sea ice loss compared to climatology, but less than in 2007, and emphasizes loss in the Beaufort Sea over the Chukchi and East Siberian Seas.

Finally, less ice means more Arctic heat loss which reduces global warming.

Many of you probably have watched this, or a similar video, but as the Arctic sea ice loss comes into the news over the next few weeks, some of your less educated friends may wonder «Why do we care?»

The reason, Werner said, is because the loss of snow and ice makes the earth's surface less reflective, meaning solar radiation — or heat — is absorbed in greater amounts by the exposed dark ocean or tundra.

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;

Main Experts Now Say Unprecedented Arctic Sea Ice Loss Occurred In Past - 50 % Less Ice Than Summer 2011»

Relatively large daily ice losses have continued into early August, though they are less than the extreme losses in early August 2012 that occurred in the wake of a strong cyclone that moved through the area and broke up the ice in the Chukchi Sea.

When the Arctic freezes over the ice insulates the sea and slows the heat loss from the N pole, when the Arctic ocean has less ice then more heat radiates off to space.

now it also results less ice coverage which means greater heat loss and cooler temperatures....

As sea ice declines, it becomes thinner, with less ice build - up over multiple years, and therefore more vulnerable to further melting.15 Models that best match historical trends project northern waters that are virtually ice - free by late summer by the 2030s.25, 26,12 Within the general downward trend in sea ice, there will be time periods with both rapid ice loss and temporary recovery, 27 making it challenging to predict short - term changes in ice conditions.

Data for the modern rate of annual ice sheet mass changes indicate an accelerating rate of mass loss consistent with a mass loss doubling time of a decade or less (Fig. 10).

Researchers at the University of Texas, Austin, report that increased melting of the Greenland ice sheet — and to a lesser degree, ice loss in other parts of the globe — helped to shift the North Pole several centimeters east each year since 2005.

Second, and less important but still rather spectacular, was the melting of virtually every square inch of the surface of this ice sheet over a short period of a few days during the hottest part of the summer, a phenomenon observed every few hundred years but nevertheless an ominous event considering that it happened just as the aforementioned record ice mass loss was being observed and measured.

the sedimentary record (Jakobsson et al., 2011), and our physical understanding (Alley et al., 2008) suggest that beyond some threshold ice - shelf reduction leads to complete loss as the ice shelf calves away, potentially in less than or much less than one year.

We conclude that a critical threshold for summer Arctic sea - ice loss may exist, whereas a further threshold for year - round ice loss is more uncertain and less accessible this century.

in September, a first - of - its - kind analysis by an international team of 18 top scientists found «less ice covers the Arctic today than at any time in recent geologic history» and this ice loss is «unexplainable by any of the known natural variabilities.»

Ice cover loss can influence winds and precipitation on other continents, possibly leading to less rain in the western United States and creating more in Europe.

(That is, if we simply held global mean temperature constant by injecting aerosols into the stratosphere, I have no idea whether that would be enough to halt Antarctic ice loss — probably not, in fact almost certainly not, though it would mean less ice sheet loss than would occur if we didn't do it.»

This is not because there was not thicker winter sea ice near Iceland (there was), but because that was more than compensated by sea ice losses in less accessible areas so that overall sea ice extent declined in that period (albeit, slowly):

While Greenland's ice loss is astonishing, on the other side of the globe, parts of Antarctica's vast ice sheet may be even less stable.

If sea ice cover was 50 % less 5,000 years ago and polar bears were very much alive and well, it is hard to see how claims of their extinction are credible from future ice loss.