Sentences with phrase «lowest ice area»

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Snow melt and rain will cause many rivers and streams to rise, potentially breaking ice layers causing ice jams and localized flooding with water covered roads, especially in low lying areas and urban and poor drainage areas.

Considering that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets span more than 1.7 million and 14 million square kilometers, respectively, while containing 90 % of the world's freshwater ice supply, melting of ice shelves could be catastrophic for low - lying coastal areas.

(By September, the Arctic area covered by sea ice was the third - lowest recorded since 1979 — the other record years were 2007 and 2008.)

«The low pressure tends to spread out the ice over a larger area, slowing the decline in extent,» he added.

Both of those effects actually add up to lower sea levels in the area right around the former ice sheet, Mitrovica said.

While climate models also simulate the observed linear relationship between sea ice area and CO2 emissions, they usually have a much lower sensitivity of the ice cover than has been observed.

AWI researchers observed a considerable decrease in the thickness of the sea ice as early as the late summer of 2015, even though the overall ice covered area of the September minimum ultimately exceeded the record low of 2012 by approximately one million square kilometres.

The area covered by sea ice hovered near its historic low this summer, and is expected to be largely gone by mid-century (ClimateWire, Dec. 17, 2010).

In the last three years, the sea ice's extent - the ocean area in which a defined minimum of sea ice can be found — was at its lowest in the 30 - year satellite record.

A cloud front can be seen in the lower left, and dark areas indicate regions of open water between sea ice formations.

The record - low winter maximum doesn't necessarily herald a record low end - of - summer minimum come September, as summer weather patterns have a large effect on sea ice area.

The Arctic has been one of the areas of the world that has seen sky - high temperatures this year, which have led to record - low sea ice levels.

At its minimum on September 16, the ice covered an area about the size of India; that is 18 percent smaller than the previous record low, set in 2007.

Through November the area of ice - covered ocean in the region reached a record low in seven of 11 months — an unprecedented stretch.

Eric Post, a Penn State University professor of biology, and Jeffrey Kerby, a Penn State graduate student, have linked the melting of Arctic sea ice with changes in the timing of plant growth on land, which in turn is associated with lower production of calves by caribou in the area.

Some of the shallow - water seeps are likely to be in now - submerged areas that were methane - producing wetlands during the most recent ice age, when sea levels were more than 100 metres lower than they are today.

Those high temperatures have kept Arctic sea ice to record low levels; the Arctic looks to see a record low winter maximum sea ice area for the third year in a row.

The biggest area of anomalous warmth in February was the Arctic, which also had record - low sea ice levels during January and February.

The area of the Arctic Ocean covered by sea ice in September, when the annual minimum occurs, was the sixth lowest extent in the satellite record, going back to 1979.

In the Antarctic, where the summer season just wrapped up, rapid ice melt led to the lowest sea ice minimum ever recorded for the area.

«While this is lower than previous estimates, it confirms that ice is being lost from around the globe, with just a few areas in precarious balance.

Combined with melting from mountain glaciers and the Greenland Ice Sheet, this could result in flooding of low - lying areas of Earth over the next century.

The area covered by sea ice in the Arctic hit record lows through the winter of 2017.

Earlier this week, scientists confirmed the area of Arctic Ocean covered by sea ice — known as sea ice extent — reached a record low in November.

Historically, a new low sea ice extent (area) is set every five years, with small recoveries in - between.

At the extremely low surface temperatures on these objects, water ice takes a disordered, amorphous form instead of the regularly ordered crystals typical in warmer areas, such as snowflakes on Earth.

The major areas of anomalous warmth were around the Arctic, which also saw record low sea ice extent during January and February.

Sea ice melt showed the greatest contribution to water masses in the Beaufort Sea and Canada Basin (fSIM up to 0.219) and comparatively low contributions in the Makarov Basin and Sever Spur areas (fSIM up to 0.061; Table 1, Figure 7).

These data link the Arctic Ocean's largest area of aragonite undersaturation to sea ice melt and atmospheric CO2 absorption in areas of low buffering capacity.

«This deposit is probably more accessible than most water ice on Mars, because it is at a relatively low latitude and it lies in a flat, smooth area where landing a spacecraft would be easier than at some of the other areas with buried ice,» researcher Jack Holt of the University of Texas said in a statement.

The limestone walls of the hole were formed during the last Ice Age when water levels in the area were much lower.

The ice and snow covered slopes are a great contrast to the deep green forested areas of the lower elevations.

Sadly, some areas are full of low - res textures hurting everything, like the ice - filled area having some muddy textures and the Egypt areas look awful up close.

The bottom line is that climatic change effects are being experienced RIGHT NOW; some are subtle while others are more overt, like glacial retreat, an increase in the severity and unpredictability of weather phenomena, or the North Polar ice cap shrinking to its lowest surface area in history.

Arctic sea ice has been shrinking more rapidly, falling to its lowest volume and second lowest area on record during the 2011 summer melt season.

Historically, a new low sea ice extent (area) is set every five years, with small recoveries in - between.

For example, if the Earth got cold enough, the encroachment of snow and ice toward low latitudes (where they have more sunlight to reflect per unit area), depending on the meridional temperature gradient, could become a runaway feedback — any little forcing that causes some cooling will cause an expansion of snow and ice toward lower latitudes sufficient to cause so much cooling that the process never reaches a new equilibrium — until the snow and ice reach the equator from both sides, at which point there is no more area for snow and ice to expand into.

``... for total area of ice, we are at a low that is historic over not just the satellite era, but at least 1450 years into the past.»

The total area of sea ice in both hemispheres, by the ice center's accounting, was «near or slightly lower than» area observed at a similar time of year in 1979, not equal to it.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

While temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere were warmer than average during the summers, the tropics and areas of the Southern Hemisphere were colder than average which comprised an average global temperature still overall lower than present day temperatures Northwestern North America had peak warmth first, from 11,000 to 9,000 years ago, while the Laurentide ice sheet still chilled the continent.

Even though the Arctic sea ice melted to a record low this summer, the ice happened to be exceptionally thick this spring in several areas where Shell held leases.

The rapid melting of Arctic ice would raise sea levels and render low - lying areas such as Miami and New Orleans more vulnerable to coastal flooding.

Light blues and greens in ocean areas indicate areas of low ice concentration.

Just that if ice extent was low during the NH autumn, then there was a probability that there would be higher then average snowfall in certain NH areas.

Now we are having a delayed freezing event in the Arctic that has Arctic Sea Ice area the lowest November on record:

Measurements for sea ice area from Cryosphere Today were 2,968,000 square kilometers or just 63,000 square kilometers above the all time record low.

Aqua measures the total area of sea covered by the ice, and by that measure the 2007 record low was broken for 10 days early last month.

Deploy a medium - scale test area of our material solution on Arctic ice, where our material can have the greatest impact on saving ice and lowering the risks of climate change.

A run of bad news from the climate scientists might convince a government that the breakup of the Greenland ice sheet was accelerating, and that Earth's low - lying areas were facing an imminent rise of 3 feet or more in sea level.