Sentences with phrase «loss of the sea»

Researchers were tracking the movement of the walrus and their behaviors in order to understand how the loss of sea ice affects their foraging patterns.

Excess amounts from human activities often end up in rivers, streams and coastal environments, causing algal blooms, loss of sea grass and low oxygen levels in the water, which can kill large numbers of fish and other organisms.

An increasing body of research reveals that these weather events can be linked to loss of sea ice in the Arctic, said Charles Greene, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell University, who contributed to the article.

«The loss of sea ice in the Arctic and changes to heat storage will lead to changes in weather patterns that could bring extreme heat and cold events to the continental United States similar to those seen in recent years, and possibly even more intense.»

In addition to leaving a void in a finely tuned ecosystem, the loss of sea stars would also disrupt a seeming iconic shoreline organism.

Climate change and the resulting loss of sea ice during the summer have opened new hunting territory for the killer whales in the eastern Canadian Arctic, but scientists knew very little about these animals until they tapped into the traditional knowledge of Inuit hunters who shared unique firsthand descriptions of orca hunting tactics.

The findings are relevant to modern - day atmospheric models and to an understanding of what a loss of sea ice means to both sea and land temperatures.

«I've accepted that the loss of sea ice, not subsistence [hunting of the animal] or the oil and gas industries, is the reason for the threat to the polar bears,» which are already protected by the more stringent Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, Kempthorne said.

«You can't go as far as saying the loss of sea ice is causing cold weather in Florida,» said Overland.

«On short time scales, we can have variable responses to the loss of sea ice among subpopulations of polar bears,» Laidre said.

«The study suggests that loss of sea ice not only has an effect on the environment and wildlife of the Arctic region but has far reaching consequences for people living in Europe and beyond.»

WITH all the attention given to the loss of sea ice in the Arctic, it's easy to forget that some ice will persist for many years yet.

Representing biodiversity at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the obsolete glass menagerie has taken on new relevance under her watch: The models have become a benchmark for assessing the loss of sea life in the current Anthropocene epoch.

Some say the record loss of sea ice in summer 2012 was a one - off, others that it was the start of a runaway collapse.

«NASA backed us on research related to the biodiversity and ecology of Arctic marine mammals, as well as the development of metrics for the loss of sea ice, their habitat.»

«Loss of sea ice has resulted in walrus hauling out on land in Alaska and Russia in massive numbers — these land haul outs result in trampling of their young,» Laidre said.

Some species win, others don't Meanwhile, the loss of sea ice is making life harder for some marine animals, including polar bears and walruses, that rely on sea ice to hunt, breed and rear their young.

A: Overall, this uptick in Antarctic sea ice is still only a fraction (about a third) of the rapid loss of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean.

Covering 1.59 million square miles (4.12 million square kilometers), this summer's sea ice shattered the previous record for the smallest ice cap of 2.05 million square miles (5.31 million square kilometers) in 2005 — a further loss of sea ice area equivalent to the states of California and Texas combined.

Over the last decade, the Arctic Ocean has experienced record - breaking losses of sea ice in the summers.

«We have documented loss of sea ice and reductions of habitat for Arctic marine mammals across most of the circumpolar Arctic, so this area is not unique,» said co-author Kristin Laidre, a UW associate professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences and the Polar Science Center.

It's a pretty impressive signal, and is clearly associated with loss of the sea ice cover.

This report describes simulations of future sea - ice extent using the NCAR CCSM3, which point to the possible complete loss of sea - ice at the end of the melt season as soon as 2040.

Note, that the ocean heat content includes loss of sea ice area, but not loss of sea ice thickness.

«The region is profoundly affected by climate change — including loss of sea ice, acidification of the ocean, and increased access for industries that pose significant risks to the ocean environment.»

But from an email conversation with Francis, Vavrus, and several other atmospheric scientists this week, it became clear that there may be more questions than answers at this point, given the large amount of natural variability that affects winter weather patterns, and the very short observational record of how the atmosphere responded to extreme losses of sea ice (only five winters of records since 2007).

However, an important consideration discussed in Trathan et al [8], is that warming is currently regional, and that a simple latitudinal gradient in the loss of sea ice is unlikely.

In addition to the direct impacts of rapid Arctic warming — most notably the loss of sea ice — scientists also think that it could be having an indirect effect on weather patterns in the mid-latitude regions of the northern hemisphere.

Paul disagrees, partly due to loss of sea ice, and so no latent heat / cooling, leading to non-linear melting.

These magnificent animals are facing unprecedented threats as a warming climate and loss of their sea ice habitat make it more difficult for the bears to hunt prey like seals and find dens for their cubs.

Currently the loss of sea ice has been greatest from the West Antarctic Peninsula region.

Such research is now becoming urgent as regional climate change is already impacting upon areas of West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula [30] and colonies in this region may already be affected by the consequent loss of sea ice [8].

The accelerated loss of sea ice should come as no surprise given that another study presented at the AGU meeting found accelerated Arctic warming (see NSIDC: Arctic melt passes the point of no return, «We hate to say we told you so, but we did»):

The need to do so arises primarily because of state cutbacks, which have meant substantial loss of SEA staff.

The infographic covers data on the loss of sea life, the destruction of coral reef, and «the deadly trio.»

But as Maslowski quotes from Untersteiner, «A linear increase in heat in the Arctic Ocean will result in a nonlinear, and accelerating, loss of sea ice.»

If you believe that it is not warming then please explain the melting of glaciers, loss of sea ice, longer growing seasons, migration of species, increased humidity, and sea level rise.

How large of a role has ocean warming been playing in the rapid loss of sea ice volume there?

The motivation for this time series is to visualize the fact that the long term Arctic - wide loss of sea ice is not only happening in extent, which is well measured by satellites, but also in thickness, which isn't.

The lag between decreases in sea ice extent during late summer and changes in the mid-latitude atmospheric circulation during other seasons (when the recent loss of sea ice is much smaller) needs to be reconciled with theory.

Most past modeling experiments that investigated the atmospheric response to Arctic change only considered the loss of sea ice, which of course misses much of the effect of Arctic amplification.

The lag between decreases in sea ice extent during late summer and changes in the mid-latitude atmospheric circulation during other seasons (like autumn and winter, when the recent loss of sea ice is much smaller) have been demonstrated empirically, but have not been captured by existing dynamical models.

If I understand AMEGs argument correctly, it is that we need to find engineering solutions in the Arctic to alleviate an effective emergency (on a basis of precautionary principle at very least) posed by possible majority loss of sea ice or escalation in methane release.

That applies not only to the Australian drought, but to all aspects of climate change, whether it be loss of sea ice, loss of glaciers and ice caps, acidification of the oceans, desertification, mass migrations due to sea level rise, and so on.

The report comes to no conclusion about how sensitive the bears are to the current loss of the sea ice that they live on, and the evolutionary tale it presents can be read in different ways.

The findings challenge the idea that the bears adapted very quickly, but confirm that they have made it through warming periods and loss of sea ice before.

So how much do changes in the Arctic atmosphere play a role in the loss of sea - ice volume and the apparent failure of the GCMs to reflect the current volume loss?

And the loss of the sea ice will mean the loss of an entire ecosystem, with repercussions that could include a major food chain, because of organisms that live on the underside of the sea ice.

Very well: You predict that the loss of sea ice will halt and reverse over the next two decades.

He argued that the exceptionally cold snowy 2009 - 2010 winter in Europe had a connection with the loss of sea - ice in the Arctic.