Sentences with phrase «oceans ice free»

Argo has nearly 4000 floats in areas of oceans ice free and deeper than 2000m.

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He writes about the sixteen days he spent sailing the Pacific Ocean with five buddies and a crate of canned meat, the time he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state, his stubbornness in getting into law school by sitting on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll, his «office» at Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, the flowers he sent to the elderly woman who nearly killed him running a stop sign, the work he's done to free Ugandan children from prison.

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«Antarctica: Return of the Weddell polynya supports Kiel climate model: After 40 years, a large ice - free area appears again in the Southern Ocean in mid-winter.»

Scientific observations show that in the Arctic, warming temperatures have led to a 75 % loss in sea ice volume since the 1980s, and recent reports suggest the Arctic Ocean will be nearly free of summer sea ice by 2050, said Sullivan.

It also eliminates much of the uncertainty surrounding potentially ill effects; whereas various mathematical models may disagree about when and at what concentrations Arctic Ocean sea ice disappears, they all agree that at roughly 3 degrees C of warming, the far north will be ice - free.

Year - round ice - free conditions across the surface of the Arctic Ocean could explain why Earth was substantially warmer during the Pliocene Epoch than it is today, despite similar concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

During this time, when dinosaurs roamed the almost subtropical forests of an ice - free Antarctic, conditions on the other side of the planet were even more remarkable: the Arctic Ocean was a gigantic freshwater lake infested with crocodile - like reptiles.

Year - round ice - free conditions across the surface of the Arctic Ocean could explain why Earth was substantially warmer during the Pliocene Epoch than it is today, despite similar concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to new research carried out at the University of Colorado Boulder.

These are the conclusions of the first systematic analysis of the economic cost of Arctic melting, which delivers a sobering antidote to other, more upbeat assessments that say melting in this area would improve access to minerals on the ocean bed, increase fishing and create ice - free shipping lanes.

The scenarios projected by climate modellers vary greatly, and it remains unclear when we can expect to see the Arctic Ocean free of ice in the summer.

Ocean cruise companies already offer Arctic voyages and, with more ice - free months, are weighing more trips during formerly frozen - over months.

«We have not seen an ice free period in the Arctic Ocean for 2,6 million years.

By the end of the present century, the Arctic Ocean seems likely to be completely free of sea ice, especially in summer.

Over the next few decades, the Arctic Ocean is projected to become ice - free during the summer.

However, in the ice - free greenhouse of the Mesozoic, reptiles cruised the oceans from pole to pole, occupying the ecological roles now largely filled by whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals and even sharks.

If it reaches the ocean, he says, it could impact the North Water Polynya, an ice - free area off the island's northwest coast that provides important year - round habitat for marine mammals and birds.

If global greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, said the UN panel, «a nearly ice - free Arctic Ocean in September before mid-century is likely.»

«The combined sea ice data suggest that the seasonal Arctic sea ice cover was strongly reduced during most of the early Holocene and there appear to have been periods of ice free summers in the central Arctic Ocean.

New data indicate that substantial areas throughout westernmost Canada were ice free prior to 12.5 ka and some as early as 14.0 ka, with implications for climate dynamics and the timing of meltwater discharge to the Pacific and Arctic oceans.

«By the middle of the century, the Arctic Ocean is predicted to be ice - free during part of the year,» lead author Cvijanovic explained.

Dr Coward's question was «Has an ice free arctic ocean been modelled?»

This is also why the Arctic Ocean could be completely ice - free for at least part of the summer within a few decades.

When ice melts, it allows the surface ocean to begin absorbing sunlight, potentially locking in the ice - free condition.

It would help any discussion regarding ethanol as an alternative, renewable fuel to include the words «ice - free Arctic Ocean» in the same sentence.

Now that this new iceberg is free of the ice shelf, it will drift north into the Southern Ocean.

It will be able to map about 95 % of the ice - free oceans» topography every 10 days and help scientists monitor ocean circulation, climate change and sea level rise.

South of Spitzbergen, the oceans have been ice free the past 2 winters, reason being, the warm waters from the Gulf Stream are travelling further north, and closer to the ocean surface, only 25 meters at the last measurement, The ocean temperature has been +2 C instead of -2 C.

An ice - free Arctic Ocean absorbs solar radiation during the long summer days, and evaporates more water into the Arctic atmosphere.

Another theory has hypothesized that an ice - free Arctic Ocean leads to increased snowfall at high latitudes.

That is why informed folks, like those at Neven's Arctic Sea Ice blog, talk instead about time frames for an «essentially» or «virtually» ice free Arctic Ocean — by this they generally mean anything under one million square meters of sea ice exteIce blog, talk instead about time frames for an «essentially» or «virtually» ice free Arctic Ocean — by this they generally mean anything under one million square meters of sea ice exteice free Arctic Ocean — by this they generally mean anything under one million square meters of sea ice exteice extent.

The CDR potential and possible environmental side effects are estimated for various COA deployment scenarios, assuming olivine as the alkalinity source in ice ‐ free coastal waters (about 8.6 % of the global ocean's surface area), with dissolution rates being a function of grain size, ambient seawater temperature, and pH. Our results indicate that for a large ‐ enough olivine deployment of small ‐ enough grain sizes (10 µm), atmospheric CO2 could be reduced by more than 800 GtC by the year 2100.

Even NOAA, the U.S. government agency, now predicts the Arctic Ocean will be «nearly ice - free» possibly within the next 10 years.

At the same time, increasing depth and duration of drought, along with warmer temperatures enabling the spread of pine beetles has increased the flammability of this forest region — http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v1/n9/full/nclimate1293.html http://www.vancouversun.com/fires+through+tinder+pine+beetle+killed+forests/10047293/story.html Can climate models give different TCR and ECS with different timing / extent of when or how much boreal forest burns, and how the soot generated alters the date of an ice free Arctic Ocean or the rate of Greenland ice melt and its influence on long term dynamics of the AMOC transport of heat?

These figures may be even more noteworthy given that the uptake occurs predominantly in seasonally ice - free areas, which are a fraction of the Arctic Ocean surface.

We're told that ice is melting rapidly and at the current rate the Arctic Ocean could be ice - free by 2050 (a sobering thought).

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Mitigation implications of an ice - free summer in the Arctic Ocean (2017) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016EF000429/full

Published projections, though with varying definitions of what constitutes ice - free, all project an ice - free Arctic ocean somewhere between 2037 (Wang and Overland, 2009) and the end of the century.

As expected, the Arctic Ocean remains ice - free for several months, and significant sea - ice cover does not develop before November.

It is not well known that multi-year sea ice, as from the Arctic Ocean Ice pack, is nearly as pure as distilled water, free of salt, and makes a most delicious cup of tice, as from the Arctic Ocean Ice pack, is nearly as pure as distilled water, free of salt, and makes a most delicious cup of tIce pack, is nearly as pure as distilled water, free of salt, and makes a most delicious cup of tea.

We don't know yet what an ice - free Arctic ocean will mean.

I am not implying that the global climate system may be close to a phase transition, but as we see, large parts of the Arctic Ocean are evolving toward seasonal ice free state.

(I could be sarcy and say that at the present rate of advancement, the science will be hard pushed to reach its conclusions on the date of an ice - free summer Arctic Ocean prior to the event occuring!)

In practice, this would mean, for example, an international treaty banning oil drilling or exploration by any nation in ice - free areas of the Arctic Ocean in perpetuity.

I think what Alastair is alluding to is the fact that, say by 2050 when the arctic ocean will conceivably be ice - free in the summer, the atmosphere will have a much higher relative humidity than it has currently because of the open air = water interface, so this will have a magnifying effect beyond just the feedback from increased CO2.

Predicting the ice - free summer Arctic Ocean isn't what drives their effort.

«According to a 1972 article in the Christian Science Monitor, Belchen asserted that «a general warming trend over the North Pole is melting the polar ice cap and may produce an ice - free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000 ″»

Danny Bloom, a freelance writer, translator and editor living in Taiwan, is on a one - man campaign to get people to seriously consider a worst - case prediction of the British chemist and inventor James Lovelock: life in «polar cities» arrayed around the shores of an ice - free Arctic Ocean in a greenhouse - warmed world.