Sentences with phrase «less sea ice»

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.

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.

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

Less sea ice = yes of course global warming.

How less sea ice does anything is not clear.

So why is it suggested that less sea ice reduces polar bears access to food?

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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).

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Less sea ice allows more photosynthesis.

With less sea ice many marine ecosystems will experience more light, which can accelerate the growth of phytoplankton, and shift the balance between the primary production by ice algae and water - borne phytoplankton, with implications for Arctic food webs.

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).

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

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.

There's a strong consensus that the season will see much less sea ice than the average for the period monitored by satellites (from 1979 onward), but is unlikely to see the extent of open water measured in 2007.

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.

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.

Less sea ice means less food for the krill and less food for the penguin.

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.

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.

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.

In a February report, Dr. Parkinson said, «If trends toward shortened sea ice seasons and lesser sea ice coverage continue, this could entail major consequences to the polar and perhaps global climate, and to the lifestyles and survivability of selected Arctic plant and animal species.»

Svalbard in the western Barents Sea has recently had less sea ice extent than it had in the 1980s, especially in the west and north, but this is not unprecedented.