Sentences with phrase «near record sea»
In 2009 the DA was strong in June and July, suggesting a near record sea ice loss for that year, but by August the DA pressure pattern was replaced by the more normal low pressure center.
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Looking for tsunami records in a sea cave was not something that would have occurred to Horton, and he says Daly's professional generosity — archaeologists are careful about who gets near their digs — and his own and Rubin's openness to insights from other disciplines made the research possible.
That helped drive last summer's near - record thaw of Arctic sea ice, second only to the dramatic melt observed in 2007.
The warmth was due to the near - record strong El Niño that developed during the Northern Hemisphere spring in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific Ocean and to large regions of record warm and much warmer - than - average sea surface temperatures in parts of every major ocean basin.
Arctic sea ice coverage is still below average and the previously stable Antarctic sea ice extent was at or near a record low, the statement adds.
Least unexpected observations: (Joint winners) 2008 near - record minima in Arctic sea ice extent, last decade of record warmth, long term increases in ocean heat content, record increases in CO2 emissions.
Sea ice is near record low for winter, thin, and easily broken by storms.
They were found lying down in shallow sea, which, according to researchers, could provide the first evidence of an environment where early life might have thrived near the start of Earth's geological record.
In early 2007, a Bentley Continental GT Speed equipped with Nokian Hakkapeliitta Sport Utility 5 studded winter tyres and driven by four - time World Rally Champion Juha Kankkunen, broke the World Speed Record on Ice - on the frozen Baltic Sea near Oulu, Finland.
These sources included: (1) records of gray whale catches off the Korean coast between 1948 and 1966), (2) an observation of four gray whales in the western Okhotsk Sea in 1967 and (3) a sighting of a mother - Remote research station used since 1995 to conduct research on gray whales feeding off Sakhalin Island seen in the background, while a gray whale feeds near shore in the foreground.
But before you read on, have a quick look at this short time - lapse video of sea ice and weather conditions in the central Arctic Ocean from early July through August 8, recorded by one of the two autonomous cameras set on the sea ice near the North Pole each spring by a research team from the University of Washington (the same folks I accompanied in 2003).
Least unexpected observations: (Joint winners) 2006 near - record minima in Arctic sea ice extent, near - record maxima in Northern Hemisphere temperatures, resumed increase in ocean heat content, record increases in CO2 emissions
It seems that the near - zero replenishment of the MY ice cover after the summers of 2005 and 2007, an imbalance in the cycle of replenishment and ice export, has played a significant role in the loss of Arctic sea ice volume over the ICESat record.
The graph of ocean heat content shows a slight decline in the year 2010; this co-occurred with a decline in sea surface and a record (or near record) surface temperature.
Re # 17 This claim that sea level will not rise near the coast was also repeated by Mörner in «Sea Level Changes as recorded in nature itself», Journal of Engineering Research and Applicatiosea level will not rise near the coast was also repeated by Mörner in «Sea Level Changes as recorded in nature itself», Journal of Engineering Research and ApplicatioSea Level Changes as recorded in nature itself», Journal of Engineering Research and Applications.
There continues to be significant excess heat storage in the Arctic Ocean at the end of summer due to continued near - record sea ice loss.
... June sea ice extents in 2008 and 2007 are essentially identical, and near the lowest values for June ever recorded by satellite for the Arctic....»
Satellites provide a near - continuous record of Arctic sea ice cover, allowing scientists to monitor changes from one day to the next.
Canadian Ice Service, 3.8, Heuristic Arctic Ocean September sea ice extents (while expected to be well below the 1979 ‐ 2013 average of 6.4 million square kilometres, and while expected to continue to be near or below 4.0 million square kilometres) are therefore expected to experience a slight recovery, preventing a repeat of last year's record.
Many retreats began with an increase in thinning rates near the front in the summer of 2003, a year of record high coastal - air and sea - surface temperatures.
-LSB-...] In fact, the global sea - ice record shows virtually no change throughout the past 30 years, because the quite rapid loss of Arctic sea ice since the satellites were watching has been matched by a near - equally rapid gain of Antarctic sea ice.
The new report also shows that Arctic sea ice hit a near - record low for the season last month.
Global mean temperatures in 2011 did not reach the record - setting levels of 2010, but were still the highest observed in a La Niña year, and Arctic sea - ice extent fell to near - record - low levels.
In addition to near - record temperatures, 2017 also saw record - low sea ice during parts of the year, both in the Arctic and Antarctic.
At the onset of the deglaciation, a ~ 500 - year long, glacio - eustatic event may have contributed as much as 10 m to sea level with an average rate of about 20 mm / yr... RSL (relative sea level) records indicate that from ~ 7 to 3 ka, GMSL likely rose 2 to 3 m to near present - day levels.
Total sea ice extent for the previous three months was near or below the level of 2007, the year with the lowest minimum summer ice extent during the satellite record.
''... worked with two sediment cores they extracted from the seabed of the eastern Norwegian Sea, developing a 1000 - year proxy temperature record «based on measurements of δ18O in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, a planktonic foraminifer that calcifies at relatively shallow depths within the Atlantic waters of the eastern Norwegian Sea during late summer,» which they compared with the temporal histories of various proxies of concomitant solar activity... This work revealed, as the seven scientists describe it, that «the lowest isotope values (highest temperatures) of the last millennium are seen ~ 1100 - 1300 A.D., during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, and again after ~ 1950 A.D.» In between these two warm intervals, of course, were the colder temperatures of the Little Ice Age, when oscillatory thermal minima occurred at the times of the Dalton, Maunder, Sporer and Wolf solar minima, such that the δ18O proxy record of near - surface water temperature was found to be «robustly and near - synchronously correlated with various proxies of solar variability spanning the last millennium,» with decade - to century - scale temperature variability of 1 to 2 °C magnitude.»
Antarctic sea ice has been at or near record extent during the past few summers and is now expanding.
This fact should also be remembered and considered, sea water does not freeze until it reaches 28.4 degrees F. «Slush Waves» were also recorded along the coast near Boston, why are no official sources questioning this?
Masters on Brazilian floods: Brazil's deadliest natural disaster in history The role of near - record sea surface temperatures January 16, 2011 http://climateprogress.org/2011/01/16/brazilian-floods-brazil-deadliest-natural-disaster-in-history/
Sea ice is near record low for winter, thin, and easily broken by storms.
The first half of 2017 has seen record low sea ice extents at both poles and near - record global average temperatures — despite the absence of a...
23 March 2018... KTUU Anchorage, Alaska (Quoted): Arctic sea ice hits annual maximum at near record low levels
However, the pace of decline returned to near - average rates by July, and the end - of - summer minimum sea ice extent, recorded on September 10, eventually tied for second lowest with 2007 (2012 remains the lowest in the satellite time series by more than 600,000 square kilometers or 232,000 square miles).
I revisited a paper by Hathaway et al which compares solar activity, geomagnetic activity and the Armagh temperature record, which runs from 1840 in a non-uhi-contaminated location 65m above sea level near the coast of Ireland.
But the Arctic sea ice has hit near - record minimums of sea ice since 2002, meaning the ocean is absorbing more sunlight, and heat, than it used to, leading to more ice melt.
Ocean temperatures: As meteorologist Angela Fritz observes, sea surface temperatures off the Mid-Atlantic coast were near a record high in September, and 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit above the long term average.
Then things took a turn for the worse, and sea ice was at record or near - record low conditions for most of the summer.
Arctic sea ice is near all - time record lows.
Sea Surface Temperatures are running low near southern Alaska, and portions of Alaska are coming off one of their coldest summers on record.
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Active black smokers were first observed in 1977, however the geological record from Archean times revealed deposits of massive sulphides that were laid down on or near the sea floor in volcanic conditions.
Applying these standard deviations to the consensus Outlook value of 4.6 million square kilometers, there is about a 16 % chance that the estimate could be near the 2007 record value and about a 40 % chance of there being sea ice greater than the 2008 value.
In late August, sea ice extent was way below average for that time of year, and it was predicted we were headed for at least a near - record low this year.
The Statement also highlighted that long - term indicators of climate change such as increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, sea level rise and ocean acidification continue «unabated», with Arctic sea ice coverage remaining below average and the previously stable Antarctic sea ice extent at or near a record low.
Here tests for causality using the global mean near - surface air temperature (GT) and Atlantic sea - surface temperature (SST) records during the Atlantic hurricane season are applied.
Global temperatures have failed to rise for 15 plus years, sea level rise is failing to accelerate, tornadoes are at record lows, hurricanes are near record low activity... 2013 may be the year in which man - made global warming fears enter the dustbin of history.»
However, the removal of the altimeter from NPOESS is not considered a critical issue for climate, as ALT would not have provided a climate - quality sea surface height record due to the NPOESS Sun - synchronous orbit, nor would it have provided information about inland waters and near - coastal areas.
Current sea ice extent and meteorological conditions suggest a record low is unlikely, as surface temperature over the central Arctic has been near normal in the last two months and forecasts of atmospheric temperatures for the next few weeks indicate average surface temperatures.
The result is a global sea ice extent near low - record levels.