Sentences with phrase «less ice year»

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.

But with less ice every year, those who make their living through tourism in Hokkaido are worried.

Not exact matches

Millennials appear to have grown less fond of iced tea brands over the past two years, according to YouGov BrandIndex.

Yet, less than a century and a half before, an 11 - year - old boy and his partly crippled great - grandfather had maintained a valley bottom outpost, unaided, against Indians, ice storms and wild animal depredations for almost six months until the rest of their family could return from a trip to Louisiana marked by a rash of mishaps.

In less than one year, My / Mo Mochi Ice Cream has become available in more than 6,000 retail locations in the U.S.

The Arctic now has seven times less old sea ice than it did 30 years ago.

Polyakov says a positive feedback loop is underway, in which less summer sea ice will lead to warmer winter waters and even less summer ice in subsequent years.

Completed in 1980 but operational before then, the VLA was behind the discoveries of water ice on Mercury; the complex region surrounding Sagittarius A *, the black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy; and it helped astronomers identify a distant galaxy already pumping out stars less than a billion years after the big bang.

In the hot spots of the Amundsen and Bellinghausen seas, the ice shelves lost 18 % of their thickness in less than 20 years.

But new modeling studies by Marchant and his team have shown that sublimation of deeply buried ice is extremely slow, less than a tenth of a millimeter per year.

Today we are pushing the carbon dioxide level to a height it last reached 24 million years ago, when there was a lot less ice on Earth and the climate was very different.

In some years — including the past two — an icebreaker passing through the Ross Sea and into McMurdo Sound encounters primarily «first - year ice,» which is less stiff than multiyear ice and easier for icebreakers to clear.

Less than a year after the first research flight kicked off NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland campaign, data from the new program are providing a dramatic increase in knowledge of how Greenland's ice sheet is melting from below.

Over the past few years, the ice on the Arctic Ocean in late summer — covers less area than it did 30 years ago; declined but then recovered to about the same area it had 30 years ago; or covers more area than it did 30 years ago.

If the average temperature in summer were to rise by 4 oC or less, the ice could be melted completely within a few years, says M. I. Budyko, a Russian researcher.

They have built up a strong case over the past few years that Europa's ice is less than 10 kilometres thick.

What will happen to the sea ice in Antarctica over the next few years is less clear.

A report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year found that between 1993 and 2010, the Greenland ice sheet contributed less than 10 percent to global sea - level rise.

Only within the last 10,000 years, after the ice age ended and relatively moist conditions returned to the arctic, did nutritious forbs yield to less nourishing plants such as graminoids and woody shrubs.

Radiocarbon dates for the mosses suggest the region has less ice cover now than it did 45,000 years ago.

It seems impossible to us today that the structure of water ice was a mystery less than 100 years ago.

If it was just being heated by tidal forces within the ice, the ocean would freeze over in less than 30 million years.

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.

Periods of volcanism can cool the climate (as with the 1991 Pinatubo eruption), methane emissions from increased biological activity can warm the climate, and slight changes in solar output and orbital variations can all have climate effects which are much shorter in duration than the ice age cycles, ranging from less than a decade to a thousand years in duration (the Younger Dryas).

The findings suggest that while the response of Antarctic summer sea ice to human - caused climate change may be less dramatic than in the Arctic, sea ice cover may have declined by as much as 14 % over the last 100 years.

For instance, team member Linda Sohl used the GISS 3D model to see whether Earth circa 715 million years ago, with less carbon dioxide in the air, would be fully or partially covered in ice.

The average temperature of asteroids (about 150 — 200 kelvin)-LSB--100 °F to -190 °F] at this distance from the Sun should cause surface ice to sublimate away in a matter of a few years or less, which is inconsistent with the billions of years that Themis is thought to have spent at its current location.»

They can only break ice that is less than one year old (not multi-year sea ice), and this can be a significant barrier to scientific operations.

And yes — I could probably eat less of the few foods that don't necessarily improve my health like ice cream and queso (although just a few months ago I did just have the best checkup with my Integrative Doc that I've had in 5 1/2 years — whoo - hoo!)

In addition to body changes, drastically less free time and money to spend on shopping, curating clothes, and paying attention to fashion trends, and increased likelihood of kid staining, stretching clothes, theres also the fact that you basically put your entire wardrobe on ice for a year or more due to pregnancy and nursing, so it doesn't really get the gradual updating over time that people normally do, so the little wardrobe details like how pants or sweaters fit or which boots you have will just be a little more behind the fashion curve.

That winter tires area almost always less expensive for most cars than year - round tires, is just icing on the cake.

With 300 + days of sunshine a year, weight of ice and snow is less of a concern than in other parts of Colorado.

After a few years of rolling black - outs, ice - storms, and metre high snow, home owners have begun to pay attention to the less - than - glamourous work horse in their home: the furnace.

Increased melting of sea ice did occur in the 1920s and 1930s in the Barents Sea (Ifft, Monthly Weather Review, November, 1922, p. 589) and over the Arctic Basin (Ahlmann, 1949, Rapports et Proces - Verbaux des Revions du Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer 125, 9 - 16) but it was much less so than in recent years.

It could be that ice sheets, through dynamical behavior, are not on a 3000 year clock that straight melting implies but rather respond with much less delay to warming.

Remember that on the map you link to, despite the distracting psychadelic colours, in fact ALL the ice on the RH side will start 2009 as multiyear ice according to the NSIDC's definition: http://nsidc.org/cgi-bin/words/word.pl?multiyear%20ice And if there's less 4/6 + year old ice?

If you understand the links above, volume is wholesale a lot less compared to 1996, along with open water, with very little multi year ice in the archipelago.

no time to trivialize how serious the disappearance of old multi year ice, but it seems that this mega story gets less attention than a Mars landing.

If this year and summer are cooler than last, and that is not a certainty, then this summer's Arctic sea ice melt will be less extensive than last year.

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).

During the so - called Holocene Climate Optimum, from approximately 8000 to 5000 years ago, when the temperatures were somewhat warmer than today, there was significantly less sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, probably less than 50 % of the summer 2007 coverage, which is absolutely lowest on record.

I've been criticized by some environmentalists in recent years for writing that the long - term picture (more CO2 = warmer world = less ice = higher seas and lots of climatic and ecological changes) is the only aspect of human - caused global warming that is solidly established, and that efforts to link dramatic weather - related events to the human influence on climate could backfire should nature wiggle the other way for awhile.

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?

There was a less severe ice age 300 million years ago, and the current ice age called the Pleistocene, began about 2 million years ago.

If polar bears have been around for few hundred thousand years they have experienced a variety of environmental changes in the Arctic, including periods when there was more sea ice than present as well as periods when seasonal sea ice was considerably less than at present.

[Andy Revkin — On Arctic ice trends, I have a post coming shortly on the latest update from the world's leading teams of sea ice experts, showing this year's retreat is unlikely to match last year's, while the long - term trend is still heading toward ever less summer ice.

Would it be the Larsen taking 2 years to sail through the NW passage, instead of less than a week now a days??? Or is it some secret Nazi Arctic submarine navigation chart smuggled to Argentina after the war, the U-boats needed to surface often for air, and it was so ice free they had a regular sub charter schedule to Japan.

Summer winds this year appear to play a lesser role than last year in driving the ice out of the Pacific sector.

o 8000 of the 10000 years since the last ice age were warmer than now and generally had less CO2 and lower sea levels o For 3000 years (from 5000 BP to 2000 BP) world temperatures were falling whilst CO2 levels were rising o Manâ??

During the Little Ice Age, the fall in average global temperature is estimated to have been less than 1 Â °C and lasted 70 years.