Sentences with phrase «multiyear ice in the region»

Not exact matches

This thicker multiyear ice takes longer to melt back (both because of greater thickness and higher albedo than first - year ice) and so in conjunction with the weather it is responsible for more extensive ice in the late summer in this region.

Relatively large expanses of older, multiyear ice were observed in the Beaufort Sea with a modal thickness around 3.6 m, which was also somewhat thicker than has been observed in this region recently.

The complete absence of multiyear sea ice in the region, confirmed by thickness surveys and local observations, is a first for the region in the past several decades.

For example, if warming continued into the mid-21st century, they proposed, bears in the Central Canadian Archipelago, the Arctic Basin and East Greenland («Archipelago» and «Convergent» ice regions, gold and blue on the map) would likely do better because thick, multiyear ice would be replaced by first year ice.

As indicated in the previous outlook for the region, fields of rotten multiyear ice persist off the northern coast of Alaska, with potential impacts on marine mammals (providing a platform for foraging walrus well into the season) and ship traffic.