Sentences with phrase «less sea»

The only two years with less sea ice were 2007 and 2008.

With less sea ice there is also less insulation, so that heat from the ocean escapes to warm the atmosphere in the autumn and winter.

What the graph illustrates is true: There's substantially less sea ice in the world than ever before.

What does less sea ice mean other than it is warmer?

How less sea ice does anything is not clear.

Less sea ice cover and a shorter ice season allows wind and wave action to attack the previously ice - protected coastline, especially during the autumn storm season.

NSIDC scientists point out why we shouldn't be reading too much into one summer of less sea ice decline.

The reason: rising air temperatures over the Weddell Sea, which could cause less sea ice to form.

The only other year on record that saw less sea ice in April was 2016.

The usual Sea Ice Extent (JAXA daily data plotted here as an anomaly — usually 2 clicks to «download your attachment») shows the crazy excursions during 2016 (a lot less Sea Ice Extent due to a very early melt season and a very late freeze season but with the height of the melt not as big as some expected and leaving a lot of ice in - place at the height of te melt).

However in the past decade there is a widespread attempt in the media to characterize observations of walruses and bears on land as a «perversion» caused by less sea ice from rising CO2.

The Zachariae stream drains around one - sixth of the Greenland ice sheet, and because warmer summers have meant significantly less sea ice in recent years, icebergs have more easily broken off and floated away, which means that the ice stream can move faster.

A person could easily become alarmed to find a million square kilometers less sea ice than on the same day of a previous year where there might have been a million square kilometers more.

Although we did not set a new record minimum as we expected, the ice did retreat considerably in the Beaufort, Chukchi, East Siberian, and Laptev seas as we expected, despite what may have been a cooler summer than 2007, and the fact that the winds during summer tended to export less sea ice from the Arctic Ocean.

Two dominion and for morning sea own first signs winged you may every, lesser sea unto saw lesser.

But climate change has brought milder winters, warmer sea temperatures and bigger storms, which create a vicious cycle that promises less sea ice and more wind and open water to generate ice - crushing waves.

Think less sea monsters, more doting parents: the long - necked plesiosaurs that roamed the seas during the dinosaur era gave birth to live young.

Interestingly, the Antarctic Peninsula supports extremely high krill biomass and predator densities in a region that experiences less sea ice than colder, adjacent regions of the Antarctic [6].

Even as the long - term trend in the Arctic is toward less sea ice in summers, for decades to come — and routinely in other seasons — any nation with interests in the far north will need to be able to navigate in heavy ice.

Hence less sea ice is melted.

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).

Serreze says if warm air and sea - surface temperatures persist, the 2017 maximum could set yet another record for even less sea - ice cover.

«Now I think we're seeing a feedback that involves less sea ice that allows more heat to be transported into the atmosphere.»

Other authors have found Arctic region temperatures oscillated profoundly between about 3 °C cooler than today and 6 °C warmer than today, with sea ice fluctuating between 2 months more sea ice coverage than today and 4 months less sea ice coverage than today.

For the Eastern Fraim Strait, the Southeast Barents Sea, and North Iceland, there was considerably less sea ice coverage (as assessed in months - per - year) during the late 1600s to early 1700s than there has been during the last few decades.

There was also less sea ice during this time (1887 - 1945), as the sea ice cover disappeared 1.1 month sooner than it does today.

Nearly every alarmist publication that asserts less sea ice causes polar bears to suffer from nutritional stress references as «proof» a 1999 paper by Ian Stirling showing body condition of bears in the western Hudson Bay declined from the 1980s to 1997.

This is far from a settled story, but most of the scientists I know now have the feeling that in a high CO2 world with less sea ice, the chill from a THC shutdown would be a lot less.

Barents Sea numbers have probably increased since 2005 and have definitely not declined despite much less sea ice cover.

It had much higher sea levels, forests extended all the way to the Arctic Ocean, and there was almost certainly a lot less sea ice.

Or that the current deep freeze in europe is caused by less sea ice etc..

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.

While it was record - breakingly cold on New Year's Eve in parts of eastern North America, the Arctic Ocean broke a different record, with a whopping 1.35 million square kilometers less sea ice — an area the size of Texas, California, and Minnesota combined — than the 1981 to 2010 median.

It's also possible that feeding opportunities are actually better for belugas in an ocean with less sea ice.

Thawing permafrost may mean more CO2 in the atmosphere but less sea ice may mean more carbon captured by the Arctic ocean

Less sea ice in summer means the Arctic Ocean warms more.

This past September the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., which collects polar and ice information for the government, announced that there was less sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean than at any time since satellite measurements began in 1979.

In September 2007 less sea ice covered the Arctic than at any point since the U.S. government began keeping records of its decline.

First of all, less sea ice is forming in the region, and secondly, oceanographic recordings from the continental shelf break confirm that the warm water masses are already moving closer and closer to the ice shelf in pulses,» says Dr Hartmut Hellmer, an oceanographer at the AWI and first author of the study.