So
the north polar sea ice has been steadily thinning in depth and shrinking in area for more than 30 years.
Not exact matches
Polar Express -
Sea World has once again transformed the
polar exhibit into a train ride on the
Polar Express that takes you to the
North Pole to meet Santa Clause.
The
sea is just 5 °
north of the Martian equator and would be the first discovery of a large body of water beyond the planet's
polar ice caps.
Scientists with Cassini's radar investigation will be looking this week at their final set of new radar images of the hydrocarbon
seas and lakes that spread across Titan's
north polar region.
Scientists first noticed this deadly phenomenon in 2004 when they noticed four drowned
polar bears in the Beaufort
Sea off Alaska's
North Slope.
The Bering Strait is a
sea strait between Cape Dezhnev, Russia, the easternmost point (169 degrees 43» W) of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, the westernmost point (168 degrees 05» W) of the
North American continent, with latitude of about 65 degrees 40»
North, slightly south of the
polar circle.
In 2004, during an aerial survey of bowhead whales in the Beaufort
Sea north of Alaska, Monnett and his colleague Jeffrey Gleason observed four dead
polar bears.
Titan's
north polar region, which is bejeweled with sprawling hydrocarbon
seas and lakes, was dark when Cassini first arrived at the Saturn system in 2004.
The researchers reached that conclusion by capturing more than two dozen
polar bears, implanting temperature loggers and tracking their subsequent movements on shore and on ice in the Arctic Ocean's Beaufort
Sea,
north of Alaska and Canada, during 2008 - 2010.
Paradoxically, both phenomena are likely linked: When
sea - ice
North of Scandinavia and Russia melts, the uncovered ocean releases more warmth into the atmosphere and this can impact the atmosphere up to about 30 kilometers height in the stratosphere disturbing the
polar vortex.
The
North Pole and Its Seekers October 28, 1868 New Expeditions to the Arctic Regions June 24, 1871 The Latest Arctic Explorations — The Remarkable Escape of the Polaris Party June 7, 1873 Rescue of the Remaining Survivors of the Polaris October 4, 1873 The Latest
Polar Expedition December 26, 1874 Work for Arctic Explorers July 17, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition The Coming Arctic Expeditions May 22, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition August 28, 1975 July 3, 1876 The Search for the Pole The British Arctic Expedition December 23 and 30, 1876 The Recent Arctic Expedition January 20, 1877 Another Approach: Balloons and Airships Some Suggestions for Future
Polar Expeditions February 13, 1877 Proposed New British
Polar Expedition September 20, 1879 To the
North Pole by Balloon July 13, 1895 Wellman's Airship for His
North Polar Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American July 7, 1906 The Wellman
Polar Airship Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American June 22, 1907 Farther
North The American Arctic Expedition September 14, 1878 The Peary Arctic Expedition July 15, 1893 Nansen's
Polar Expedition March 14, 1896 The Recent Failures of Arctic Expeditions August 29, 1896 The Return of Lieut. Peary September 27, 1902 The
Polar Regions June 11, 1904 Peary's New Ship for Work in Arctic
Seas October 8, 1904 Peary and the
North Pole July 15, 1905 Peary's Arctic Ship, The «Roosevelt» July 15, 1905 Peary's «Farthest
North» November 17, 1906 Race to the Finish: Peary and Cook Peary's Quest of the
North Pole July 18, 1908 Peary and the
North Pole August 21, 1909 Dr. Cook and the
North Pole September 11, 1909 Dr. Cook's Discovery of the
North Pole September 11, 1909 Honor to Whom Honor is Due September 18, 1909 Commander Peary's Discovery of the
North Pole September 18, 1909 Retrospect of the Year 1909: Exploration January 1, 1910 «Investigating» Peary April 22, 1911 THE SOUTH POLE Exploring Antarctica Antarctic Exploration January 23, 1897 To South
Polar Lands February 13, 1897 The Voyage of the «Discovery» February 3, 1906 Antarctic Expeditions, Past and Present Some Heroes of Exploration November 11, 1911 Dr. Charcot's Antarctic Expedition November 30, 1907 Motoring Toward the Pole By Motor Car to the South Pole By J. S. Dunnet October 19, 1907 The Shackleton Antarctic Expedition By John Plummer August 29, 1908 Lieut. Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition April 3, 1909 Lieut. Shackleton April 9, 1910 Two Novel Motor Sleds By Walter Langford May 14, 1910 Race to the Finish: Amundsen and Scott The Antarctic Expeditions January 13, 1912 The Discovery of the South Pole March 16, 1912 Amundsen's Attainment of the South Pole Progress of Antarctic Exploration By G. W. Littlehales, Hydrographic Office, United States Navy March 23, 1912 Capt. Scott at the South Pole April 13, 1912 Shadows at the South Pole June 15, 1912 The Scott Expedition and its Tragic End A Sacrifice Made for Scientific Ideals February 22, 1913 Achievements and Lessons of the Scott Expedition March 1, 1913 To the South Pole with the Cinematograph Film Records of Scott's Ill - Fated Expedition June 21, 1913 Science in the Heroic Age The Height of the Antarctic Continent By Walter Langford June 4, 1910 The Renewed Siege of the Antarctic January 17, 1914 Shackleton's South
Polar Expedition The Value of His Scientific Observations By Henryk Arctowski June 17, 1916 Thawing Scott's Legacy A pioneer in atmosphere ozone studies, Susan Solomon rewrites the history of a fatal
polar expedition By Sarah Simpson December 2001 Greater Glory In the race to the South Pole, explorer Robert F. Scott refused to sacrifice his ambitious science agenda By Edward J. Larson June 2011
Global warming will also mean more forest fires; hurricanes hitting cities that are at present too far
north of the equator to be affected by them; tropical diseases spreading beyond their present zones; the extinction of species unable to adapt to warmer temperatures; retreating glaciers and melting
polar icecaps; and rising
seas inundating coastal areas.
Freshwater injection into the
North Atlantic and Southern oceans increases
sea level pressure at middle latitudes and decreases it at
polar latitudes (Figs. 20, S22), but the impact is different in the
North Atlantic than in the Southern Ocean.
Impact of ice melt on storms Freshwater injection onto the
North Atlantic and Southern Oceans causes increase of
sea level pressure at middle latitudes and decrease at
polar latitudes.
Diminished
sea ice can impact the ability of Arctic species like
polar bears and walruses to find food, and could impact the weather across
North America, Europe and Asia, though that connection is still contentious.
In the long term, changes in
sea level were of minor importance to rainfall patterns in
north western Sumatra With the end of the last Ice Age came rising temperatures and melting
polar ice sheets, which were accompanied by an increase in rainfall around Indonesia and many other regions of the world..
Today, if just the current Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica melted, it is estimated that
sea level would rise 20 to 251 If we melted all of the ice on Greenland, the
North polar areas and the Antarctic in addition,
sea level could rise 300» or so.
The continuing warming and summertime retreats of
sea ice around the
North Pole are making life difficult for seal - hunting
polar bears, eroding Inuit coastal villages and now, evidently, eroding Arctic defenses (although not weakening them, the Pentagon insists).
This change speed is dizzying us in the Arctic, even snow buntings come back very early this spring, and
polar bears are seen on the thin enough
sea ice for seals at the
North Pole.
You can get a fresh look at the
sea ice by clicking here to check out the
North Pole Webcams left behind in April by the
polar research team.
* Monitor
polar bear populations and trends * Study
polar bear feeding ecology * Work cooperatively with the Alaska Nanuuq Commission and the
North Slope Borough for co-management of
polar bears in Alaska * Provide technical assistance to the participants of the 1988
North Slope Borough Inuvialuit (In new vee al u it) Game Council Agreement for the conservation of
polar bears in the southern Beaufort
Sea region and monitor the effects of oil and gas operations in the Beaufort
Sea region.
(Keep in mind that almost all Arctic
sea ice researchers add a big caveat when talking of an «ice - free Arctic Ocean,» noting that a big region of thick floes
north and west of Greenland will almost surely persist in summers through this century, which is one reason some scientists have proposed targeting
polar bear conservation efforts there.)
Exploratory drilling will occur just
north of the western edge of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in the Beaufort
Sea, home to bowhead and beluga whales, seals, walruses,
polar bears, and a wide variety of migrating birds.
, lightning related insurance claims, Lyme disease, Malaria, malnutrition, Maple syrup shortage, marine diseases, marine food chain decimated, Meaching (end of the world), megacryometeors, Melanoma, methane burps, melting permafrost, migration, microbes to decompose soil carbon more rapidly, more bad air days, more research needed, mountains break up, mudslides, next ice age, Nile delta damaged, no effect in India, nuclear plants bloom, ocean acidification, outdoor hockey threatened, oyster diseases, ozone loss, ozone repair slowed, ozone rise, pests increase, plankton blooms, plankton loss, plant viruses,
polar tours scrapped, psychosocial disturbances, railroad tracks deformed, rainfall increase, rainfall reduction, refugees, release of ancient frozen viruses, resorts disappear, rift on Capitol Hill, rivers raised, rivers dry up, rockfalls, rocky peaks crack apart, Ross river disease, salinity reduction, Salmonella,
sea level rise, sex change, ski resorts threatened, smog, snowfall increase, snowfall reduction, societal collapse, songbirds change eating habits, sour grapes, spiders invade Scotland, squid population explosion, spectacular orchids, tectonic plate movement, ticks move northward (Sweden), tides rise, tree beetle attacks, tree foliage increase (UK), tree growth slowed, trees less colourful, trees more colourful, tropics expansion, tsunamis, Venice flooded, volcanic eruptions, walrus pups orphaned, wars over water, water bills double, water supply unreliability, water scarcity (20 % of increase), weeds, West Nile fever, whales move
north, wheat yields crushed in Australia, white Christmas dream ends, wildfires, wine — harm to Australian industry, wine industry damage (California), wine industry disaster (US), wine — more English, wine — no more French, wind shift, winters in Britain colder, wolves eat more moose, wolves eat less, workers laid off, World bankruptcy, World in crisis, Yellow fever.
Most interesting is that the about monthly variations correlate with the lunar phases (peak on full moon) The Helsinki Background measurements 1935 The first background measurements in history; sampling data in vertical profile every 50 - 100m up to 1,5 km; 364 ppm underthe clouds and above Haldane measurements at the Scottish coast 370 ppmCO2 in winds from the
sea; 355 ppm in air from the land Wattenberg measurements in the southern Atlantic ocean 1925-1927 310 sampling stations along the latitudes of the southern Atlantic oceans and parts of the northern; measuring all oceanographic data and CO2 in air over the sea; high ocean outgassing crossing the warm water currents north (> ~ 360 ppm) Buchs measurements in the northern Atlantic ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2 over sea surface in northern Atlantic Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly aver
sea; 355 ppm in air from the land Wattenberg measurements in the southern Atlantic ocean 1925-1927 310 sampling stations along the latitudes of the southern Atlantic oceans and parts of the northern; measuring all oceanographic data and CO2 in air over the
sea; high ocean outgassing crossing the warm water currents north (> ~ 360 ppm) Buchs measurements in the northern Atlantic ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2 over sea surface in northern Atlantic Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly aver
sea; high ocean outgassing crossing the warm water currents
north (> ~ 360 ppm) Buchs measurements in the northern Atlantic ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2 over sea surface in northern Atlantic Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly av
north (> ~ 360 ppm) Buchs measurements in the northern Atlantic ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2 over
sea surface in northern Atlantic Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly aver
sea surface in northern Atlantic Ocean up to the
polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents
Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly aver
Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current,
North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly av
North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over
sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly aver
sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly average
-LRB-- NAO) This
sea ice then melts in the Sub
Polar Atlantic, releasing fresh water into the sub -
polar Atlantic waters, which in turn impedes the formation of NADW, which slows down the thermohaline circulation causing warm air not to be brought up from the lower latitudes as far
north as previous while in lessening amounts.
And it is known that the southern
polar regions «see - saws» with the northern — so when the
north polar is on the up cycle — the south
polar in on a downer (Bob Tisdale's graph of the southern ocean SSTs shows this clearly for the «global warming» period of 1980 - 2005 — and the Peninsula Region just catches a flow - in from warmer
seas to the
north).
Franz Josef Land provides the most stable
sea ice habitat for Barents Sea polar bears because it is largely beyond the influence of warm water influxes from the North Atlant
sea ice habitat for Barents
Sea polar bears because it is largely beyond the influence of warm water influxes from the North Atlant
Sea polar bears because it is largely beyond the influence of warm water influxes from the
North Atlantic.
«During aerial surveys in September 1987 — 2003, a total of 315 live
polar bears were observed with 12 (3.8 %) animals in open water, defined for purposes of this analysis as marine waters > 2 km
north of the Alaska Beaufort
Sea coastline or associated barrier islands.
The Arctic
sea - ice has long passed its tipping point, and so also have the other critical features in the
polar north.
This in turn is influenced by
sea level pressure patterns in
polar and subpolar regions — as more or less wind and currents are pushed
north (Roemmich et al, 2007, Qiu, Bo et al 2006).
In autumn 1939 naval activities squeezed the heat out of the
seas more quickly, freeing the way for
polar air from the high
North and Northeast.
Melting
polar ice in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, coupled with melting ice sheets and glaciers across Greenland,
North America, South America, Europe and Asia, are expected to raise
sea levels significantly.
Hi iceman, Sorry for the tardy reply, that pesky real life thing again...:) The reason there is so little excitement about the record high
sea ice extent in the antarctic (aside from it having no appealing potential victims, like
polar bears) versus the record low arctic
sea ice is probably because the southern record is only a matter of 2 % anamoly, whereas in the
north we are now looking at levels over 40 % below average.
And
sea ice dwindled to record low levels in both the Arctic and Antarctic, with the
north polar region warming twice as fast as the global average.