Sentences with phrase «less sea ice many»

We have probably all heard about ways that climate change will threaten Indigenous peoples — by causing rising sea levels, less sea ice, and so on.

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.

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

For several thousand years, there was much less sea ice in the Arctic Ocean — probably less than half of current amounts....

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).

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.

New evidence from clams and mussels with temperature - sensitive habitat requirements confirm that warmer temperatures and less sea ice than today existed during the early Holocene period about 10.2 — 9.2 thousand years ago and between 8.2 and 6.0 thousand years ago (based on radio carbon dates) around Svalbard.

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

Less sea ice in autumn means more snowfall on the continents, which can have a larger impact on on albedo.

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 thread has to do with Arctic sea ice and temperatures and based on the medieval Viking settlements in Greenland, there is no doubt that the Arctic was warmer and had less sea ice than today.

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.

You claim that less sea ice will result in more snow, but the opposite seems to be the case.

Meanwhile, 6,000 kilometers to the north, the Arctic has less sea ice than at any time in the 37 years that satellites have been measuring ice coverage.

This sea ice feedback at 18K is consistent with the smaller fsnow / ice ∼ 1.1 in the So and CO2 experiments, which applied to a warmer earth with less sea ice.

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

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.

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.

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

With less sea ice, storms can also kick up stronger waves that pummel and erode coastlines, the scientists said.

Global Weather and Climate Logistics, 5.32, Statistical Our predictor screening approach predicts slightly more sea ice extent than last year and our anomaly correlation approach predicts slightly less sea ice extent than last year.

Whole of Arctic has had FAR LESS sea ice than now for over 9000 years of the last 10000 years.

It's still cutting - edge research and there's no smoking gun, but there's evidence that with less sea ice, you put a lot of heat from the ocean into the atmosphere, and the circulation of the atmosphere responds to that... We've seen a tendency for autumns with low sea ice cover to be followed by a negative Arctic Oscillation.

Every time I hear that explanation that less sea ice means arctic air can move south I think «Damn, it must have been cold in the Medieval Warm Period».

4 Before the MWP, which had LESS sea ice than now, the first 7000 - 8000 year of the Holocene was often basically ice free in summer.

Taylor also debunked the notion that less sea ice means less polar bears by pointing out that southern regions of the bears» home with low levels of ice are seeing booming bear populations.

One member's 2008 outlook (Kalaeschke) went from less sea ice to more sea ice compared to 2007; this was based on applying a different method with a stronger weighting for initial conditions.

Some scientists have reported larger salp populations there in warmer years with less sea ice.

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).

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.

Sampling areas were split according to their ice cover: North - West (less sea ice cover), South - East (larger amplitude in sea ice extent) and North - East / South - West (NESW) as bears from that zone are more mobile among all regions of Svalbard.

Peak abundances of the small subpolar planktic foraminifer species Turborotalita quinqueloba found in MIS 5e sediments from the southern Lomonosov Ridge close to the Greenland continental margin (Site GreenICE, Fig. 1), a region with a modern perennial sea ice cover, may indicate less sea ice than today45.

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.

Low heights in the Atlantic side suggest colder temperatures and less sea ice export, while north of Siberia winds are now offshore, which may reverse the persistence of sea ice in that region.

Summer of 2008 shows a large region of less sea ice than normal over the Beaufort Sea compared to 2005 which had less ice cover than normal in the Eastern Siberian Sea and Laptev Sea.

Polar bears need less sea ice to be well fed and to reproduce.

With less sea ice, the refrigerator door is left open - darker open water is exposed, which readily absorbs the Sun's energy in summer, heating the ocean and leading to even more melt.

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.

In fact it was running hotter as demonstrated by two big ice melt years and less sea ice extent in general.

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

Additionally, the less sea ice covers the surface of the ocean, the more sunlight is absorbed by the water, which scientists warn could accelerate the Arctic's warming.

As there is less and less sea ice to act as a buffer, more energy can go into melting glaciers from below and warming the air above them.

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

Research indicates that the Arctic had substantially less sea ice during this period compared to present Current desert regions of Central Asia were extensively forested due to higher rainfall, and the warm temperate forest belts in China and Japan were extended northwards West African sediments additionally record the «African Humid Period», an interval between 16,000 and 6,000 years ago when Africa was much wetter due to a strengthening of the African monsoon While there do not appear to have been significant temperature changes at most low latitude sites, other climate changes have been reported.

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

Beluga has two other ships carrying goods along the northern sea route this summer, and the expectation is that such trade will expand given projections of Arctic summers with ever more open water and less sea ice.

Simple physics dictates that with less sea ice there is magnified warming of the Arctic due to powerful albedo feedback; this in turn reduces the equator to pole temperature gradient which slows the jet stream winds causing them to become more meridional; this combined with 4 % more water vapor in the atmosphere (compared to 3 decades ago) is leading to much more extremes in weather.

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

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.

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.