Sentences with phrase «melt season length»
Recent changes in Arctic sea ice melt onset, freeze - up, and melt season length.
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Then if we find the winter max and summer minimum each year we can look at the how the length of the melting season changes:
This phase change of water causes a powerful local feedback, which, together with moderate global warming, can substantially increase the length of the melt season.
Large - scale warming in the Arctic [Johannessen et al., 2004] has resulted in an extension of the length of the summer melt season over sea ice [Smith, 1998; Rigor et al., 2000], thawing permafrost [Osterkamp and Romanovsky, 1999], and near - coastal thinning and overall shrinkage of the Greenland ice sheet [Krabill et al., 1999; Lemke et al., 2007, and references therein].
As one goes further north toward the North Pole, the length of the shortwave radiation season is shortened with less ability to melt out multi-year sea ice (D. Perovich, personal communication).
According to the press release: «This trio of images shows changes between 1979 and 2007 in the average date of melt onset in the spring (left), the first autumn freeze (center), and the total average increase in the length of the Arctic sea ice melt season.
According to the press release: «The graph -LSB-...] illustrates how the length of the melt season varies significantly from year to year, but the long - term trend is clear.»
The melting season — i.e. the length of time in which continuous melting occurs — has increased on average by 6.4 days for every decade between 1979 and 2007.
Over the past quarter - century, both the extent of melting and the length of the melt season on the Greenland ice sheet have been growing, as local temperatures have risen.6 Satellites measure the extent of melting by differentiating between areas of the ice mass that are fully frozen and those with surface meltwater.
The Greenland ice sheet is melting at an accelerating rate, with both the extent of melting and the length of the melt season growing.
Both the extent of melting and the length of the melt season on Greenland are growing.
Every element of the hydrologic cycle, to some degree, is temperature dependent: when it snows versus when it rains; when it melts, how much evaporates; how much water the plants use; the length of the growing seasons.