For several thousand years, there was much
less sea ice in the Arctic Ocean — probably less than half of current amounts....
Less sea ice in autumn means more snowfall on the continents, which can have a larger impact on on albedo.
The only other year on record that saw
less sea ice in April was 2016.
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.
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.
Less sea ice in summer means the Arctic Ocean warms more.
Not exact matches
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.
Thawing permafrost may mean more CO2
in the atmosphere but
less sea ice may mean more carbon captured by the Arctic ocean
For example, Kangerdlugssuaq glacier has lost mass from melting and,
in its thinner form, has
less weight to speed the flow of its
ice toward the
sea.
As the Arctic summers are getting warmer we may see an acceleration of global warming, because reduced
sea ice in the Arctic will remove
less CO2 from the atmosphere, Danish scientists report.
In the hot spots of the Amundsen and Bellinghausen seas, the ice shelves lost 18 % of their thickness in less than 20 year
In the hot spots of the Amundsen and Bellinghausen
seas, the
ice shelves lost 18 % of their thickness
in less than 20 year
in less than 20 years.
The negative impacts of warmer winters may be
less evident
in Nordic countries than
in places like Alaska, where people and animals like polar bears and seals are more dependent on the presence of
sea ice, according to Serreze.
In addition, now that sea ice blankets the Southern Ocean off the western Antarctic Peninsula far less than before, more water is evaporating and forming precipitation, largely in the form of sno
In addition, now that
sea ice blankets the Southern Ocean off the western Antarctic Peninsula far
less than before, more water is evaporating and forming precipitation, largely
in the form of sno
in the form of snow.
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 19
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 19
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 19
ice covering the Arctic Ocean than at any time since satellite measurements began
in 1979.
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.
In a study published in the actual volume of Nature Communications, geo - and climate researchers at the Alfred - Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar - and Marine Research (AWI) show that, in the course of our planet's history, summertime sea ice was to be found in the central Arctic in periods characterised by higher global temperatures — but less CO2 — than toda
In a study published
in the actual volume of Nature Communications, geo - and climate researchers at the Alfred - Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar - and Marine Research (AWI) show that, in the course of our planet's history, summertime sea ice was to be found in the central Arctic in periods characterised by higher global temperatures — but less CO2 — than toda
in the actual volume of Nature Communications, geo - and climate researchers at the Alfred - Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar - and Marine Research (AWI) show that,
in the course of our planet's history, summertime sea ice was to be found in the central Arctic in periods characterised by higher global temperatures — but less CO2 — than toda
in the course of our planet's history, summertime
sea ice was to be found
in the central Arctic in periods characterised by higher global temperatures — but less CO2 — than toda
in the central Arctic
in periods characterised by higher global temperatures — but less CO2 — than toda
in periods characterised by higher global temperatures — but
less CO2 — than today.
The East Antarctic
ice sheet has long been considered relatively stable because most of the
ice sheet was thought to rest on bedrock above
sea level, making it
less susceptible to changes
in climate.
What will happen to the
sea ice in Antarctica over the next few years is
less clear.
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.
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.
Less ice than
in 2016 was recorded
in the Chukchi and East Siberian
Seas.
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.
It's also possible that feeding opportunities are actually better for belugas
in an ocean with
less sea ice.
He said that sensitivity includes water vapour and arctic
sea ice, but I suspect that the changes
in sea ice in the models are much
less than we are seeing
in practice.
If proxy data can confirm that
sea ice was indeed the major player
in past abrupt climate - change events, it seems
less likely that such dramatic abrupt changes will occur due to global warming, when extensive
sea -
ice cover will not be present.
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].
And
in fact this is self reinforcing (
less sea ice, warmer water, rising air, lower pressure, enhanced storminess).
That is a major change
in sea currents, warming, wildlife, coastal erosion, and much
less solar energy being bounced back into space by
ice that
in not there.
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.
The accelerating melting of land
ice into the
sea makes the surface of the ocean around Antarctica colder,
less salty and more easily frozen, leading to extensive
sea ice in some areas.
In his seminal 1982 book Climate, History, and the Modern World, the renown climatologist Dr. H.H. Lamb revealed that sea ice in the subarctic and Arctic regions was much less extensive during the Medieval Warm Period (9th - 13th centuries) compared to toda
In his seminal 1982 book Climate, History, and the Modern World, the renown climatologist Dr. H.H. Lamb revealed that
sea ice in the subarctic and Arctic regions was much less extensive during the Medieval Warm Period (9th - 13th centuries) compared to toda
in the subarctic and Arctic regions was much
less extensive during the Medieval Warm Period (9th - 13th centuries) compared to today.
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.
Summertime
sea ice in the Arctic Ocean now routinely covers about 40 percent
less area than it did
in the late 1970s, when continuous satellite observations began.
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This left
less water
in the oceans since large amounts were tied up
in glaciers and
ice sheets, and
sea level fell.
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 yea
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 yea
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.
If proxy data can confirm that
sea ice was indeed the major player
in past abrupt climate - change events, it seems
less likely that such dramatic abrupt changes will occur due to global warming, when extensive
sea -
ice cover will not be present.
Its simple, winter was much smaller
in extent, mimicking directly the
lesser volume of Arctic
sea ice.
Sea ice in the Arctic, on which arctic animals hunt, rest, and reproduce, now covers 15 %
less area than it did
in 1978; it has thinned to an average of 1.8 meters, compared to 3.1 meters
in the 1950s.
I have observed greater variations
in Arctic Inversions lately, the tendency is towards
less steep inversions, this is expected when the Arctic lower atmosphere warms during winter, if the models maintain a stronger inversion while its observed weakening this may explain why
sea ice models fail, strong boundary layers appear to be collapsing.
A bit
less ice in the Chukchi
Sea but, otherwise, very similar to 1938.
Or that the current deep freeze
in europe is caused by
less sea ice etc..
There have been substantial, sometimes rancorous, debates among polar bear researchers about this predator's prospects
in a warming climate with
less summer
sea ice.
There is no evidence for that now, or
in the recent past when Arctic
sea ice was
less extensive (specifically the Early Holocene or the Eemian).
Long term trends
in all seasons are towards
less Arctic
sea ice.
My take is that the tug of war over what's causing today's telegenic heat waves, floods, tempests — and even Arctic
sea -
ice retreats — distracts from the high confidence scientists have
in the long - term (but
less sexy) picture: that more CO2 will lead to centuries of climate and coastal changes with big consequences for a growing human population (for better and worse
in the short run, and likely mostly for the worse
in the long run).
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.
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.