Sentences with phrase «new sea ice formed»

It may seem surprising that no widespread sea ice forms on the night side of the planet within 50 years; after all, new sea ice forms every winter in Earth's high latitudes.

Not exact matches

That new freshwater could encourage more sea ice to form on the basin, unless winds wash the new water away.

Sea ice skylights formed by warming Arctic temperatures increasingly allow enough sunlight into the waters below to spur phytoplankton blooms, new research suggests.

He argues that such surfaces can easily form a new layer of ice or even frost flowers — rare (and gorgeous) ice crystals that grow upward from the sea.

«Right now, pregnant females foraging offshore in summer must wait up to a month longer than they did just 10 years ago for new sea ice to form so they can travel to denning areas on land,» says Steve Amstrup of the USGS.

Bacteria, however, have remained Earth's most successful form of life — found miles deep below as well as within and on surface rock, within and beneath the oceans and polar ice, floating in the air, and within as well as on Homo sapiens sapiens; and some Arctic thermophiles apparently even have life - cycle hibernation periods of up to a 100 million years while waiting for warmer conditions underneath increasing layers of sea sediments (Lewis Dartnell, New Scientist, September 20, 2010; and Hubert et al, 2010).

Any existing ice this year will form the basis of the multi-year ice, yes — but the sea forms at the bottom, in contact with sea water, and melts at the top — so at the end of next summer, all of this year's ice could have melted off the top, leaving only the new ice beneath, possibly thinner than this year.

Your attempt to tweak the ozone hole explanation with a new twist also does not work... you say the ozone fails to absorb UV in the stratosphere, causing more sea ice to form in the winter.

Climate scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) present evidence in a new study that they can predict this rate, and hence anticipate whether the Arctic sea ice that forms in the winter will grow, shrink, or hold its own over decade - long time spans.

A landmark new study in Nature Climate Change finds the melting of the sea ice over the last 30 years at a rate of 8 % per decade is directly linked to extreme summer weather in the US and elsewhere in the form of droughts and heatwaves.

For example, one new study shows that the melt ponds that form on top of sea ice floes in June and July can dramatically accelerate sea ice melt.

After the minimum, a new freeze cycle begins: early October sea ice forming near Kotzebue, Alaska.