Sentences with phrase «more open water»

The result is more open water in summer, which then absorbs more heat, warming the ocean and further melting the ice.

There are more open water leads within the ice, and the surface melt of the sea ice is more intensive than before.

Less ice means more open water to generate large waves — creating a feedback loop that could doom the ice cap.

Once you go through this program, you can enjoy more open water excursions with our company during your vacation.

Collapsing ice shelves and melting sea ice leaves more open water in the Earth's polar regions (photo a in earlier figure).

With your theory already completed before you get here, the first day will be spent in the pool, two open water dives the second day, and then two more open water dives on the last / third day.

Diminishing sea ice near the Arctic coast leaves more open water near the coast for winds to create waves.

«Dr. Meier said that small variations from one year to the next were less significant than the long - term trajectory, which remained toward progressively more open water.

In contrast during the most recent decade with more open water, the number of ringed seal pups in the western Hudson Bay tripled relative to the 1990s.4 With more seal pups the polar bears» body condition also improved.

Bamber, et al. (GRL V. 31, 2004) found that the largest ice cap on Svalbard (Austfonna) was increasing in elevation and correlated the increase to the decline in sea ice which, in turn, provided more open water and, hence, more local precipitation.

Polar experts are starting to place their bets on the fate of the thin veneer of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean, and quite a few are forecasting even more open water this summer than last.

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.

Point (ii) says that if we melt (say) a meter of ice, we will create more open water if we start with thin ice than if we start with thick ice.

«However, summer sea ice conditions in the southern Beaufort Sea have changed considerably over the last 20 to 30 years, such that there is much more open water during summer and fall.

The marine shipping industry has already taken advantage of more open waters at the top of the world to dramatically lessen time spent at sea, as well as carbon - spewing fuel burned.

To sum the PNAS study up: that one thinks especially at the onset of the winter season snowfall is likely to increase as a consequence of Arctic warming, as more open water in the Arctic Ocean means more evaporation (especially when the cold sets in over open water — that creates an unstable atmosphere with convection) and therefore more precipitation, usually in the form of snow.

The consensus agreed a shifting Arctic Oscillation altered the direction of subfreezing winter winds from Siberia, anomalously pushing sea ice away from the coast and generating more open water «polynya» and «leads.

3,4 As in the Arctic, more open water allows larger amounts of stored heat to escape, dramatically raising winter temperatures.

With your theory already completed before you get here, the first two days will be spent in the pool and enjoying the first two open water dives, and then two more open water dives on the third and final day.

The research team, led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), suspects that melting sea ice has left more open water near the coast for winds to create waves.

Dr. Meier said that small variations from one year to the next are less significant than the long - term trajectory, which remains toward progressively more open water.

leaves more open water in the Earth's polar regions (photo a in earlier figure).

In the latter half of the twentieth century, 4 to 6 meter waves (13 to 20 feet) rarely occurred in the western Arctic Ocean, but with more open water they have become more frequent, especially when strong storms enter the Arctic Ocean in late summer or early autumn.

As the climate warms, warmer temperatures and more open water will mean more water vapour entering the atmosphere — itself a powerful greenhouse gas.

«This is the first - ever such survey in the Northwest Passage, and we were surprised to find this much thick ice in the region in late winter, despite the fact that there is more and more open water in recent years during late summer,» says Haas.

Because the smaller fish shifted to shallow waters where bass threaten them less, he explains, the algae that inhabit the more open waters of the lake were free of their predators and their populations fluctuate more.

Ice is highly reflective and less of it means there's more open water in the Arctic Ocean to absorb energy from the sun.

The actual circuits work well with the level of waves definitely adding a required level of difficulty to the more open water events.

We often see wildlife in the archipelago, such as black bears and harbour porpoises, which are not as often seen in the more open waters of Blackfish Sound and Johnstone Strait.

Tarpon in Ambergris Caye are on average 60 - 90 pounds in inland habitats, and get larger in the more open waters, ranging in weight from around 100 - 150 pounds.

The PADI Advanced Open Water Course consists of five more open water dives which introduces exciting new areas of diving.

The loss of ice cover not only means that more open water will be around to directly warm the air into the Arctic night, but that more water vapor will be around to hold heat in.

In my query, I recalled research I'd reported on in 2007 showing that, over decades, sea ice may well experience substantial periods of shrinkage and growth on the path toward more and more open water in summers later in the century.

The first question is why was this year so surprisingly extreme, even along a trend toward more open water?

«And if storms like this continue, as there's more open water, more storms mean more exposed surface,» she said.