Sentences with phrase «more sea ice coverage»

Not exact matches

The Arctic Ocean's end - of - summer sea ice coverage has decreased, on average, more than 13 percent per decade since 1979.

You can find out more (and see links to my earlier coverage of Arctic sea - ice trends, and what's going on with sea ice at the other end of the planet) in my latest post on Dot Earth.

It's also worth noting that the area of sea ice coverage is influenced by the wind, and the rapid area loss of last summer was mainly wind - driven — but thin sea ice is more sensitive to wind forcing than thick sea ice is.

Given that this summer's minimum has fallen below last year's and will settle in at the 2nd or 3rd lowest on record, last summer's minimum now appears more as a bump in the road toward continuing lower Arctic sea ice coverage.

It is not that the polar regions are amplifying the warming «going on» at lower latitudes, it is that any warming going on AT THE POLES is amplified through inherent positive feedback processes AT THE POLES, and specifically this is primarily the ice - albedo positive feedback process whereby more open water leads to more warming leads to more open water, etc. *** «Climate model simulations have shown that ice albedo feedbacks associated with variations in snow and sea - ice coverage are a key factor in positive feedback mechanisms which amplify climate change at high northern latitudes...»

The estimates also suggests, based on current sea - ice coverage, that it will take another trillion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions before Arctic summer sea ice more or less vanishes.

Lacking a more direct measure of the relationship between bearded seal vital rates and ice coverage, the BRT assumed that this preference relationship reflects the species requirements for sea - ice coverage.»

Morover, I think you really should look at more recent work by Polyakov — say, his 2012 paper, «Recent Changes of Arctic Multiyear Sea Ice coverage and the Likely Causes.»

Some have claimed it was complete global coverage of sea, though it seems me more would claim there remained corridor of tropical ocean which remain ice free.

For both summer and winter Arctic sea - ice, the area coverage is declining at present (with summer sea - ice declining more markedly; ref.