Sentences with phrase «of polar sea ice»

The mean of the model ensemble is reducing biases of each model and provides the best estimate of the signal of the polar sea ice loss.

The Arctic warming and the decline of the polar sea ice, do these phenomena have a connection to the cooling trends of winter in the Eurasia?

There is a widespread idea that there are actual and robust measurements of polar bear populations, the extent of glaciers, the rate of sea - level rise, and the extent of polar sea ice.

By the mid-2020s, sea level rise around Manhattan and Long Island could be up to 10 inches, assuming the rapid melting of polar sea ice continues.

Although a recent downward trend in coverage is clearly visible by naked eye inspection, Goddard invites us to believe there has ``... been no net gain or loss of polar sea ice since records began.»

Much of the polar sea ice (frozen ocean water) that blankets the Arctic Ocean and surrounds the Antarctic continent in winter melts during the summer as temperatures do get above freezing.

«MODIS observations of polar sea ice were combined with observations of Antarctica made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's AVHRR sensor — the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer.»

Since 2010, the European Space Agency's CryoSat satellite has circled the Earth and monitored the state of the polar sea ice, along with the ice sheets that cover Antarctica and Greenland.

I'm not sure how realistic that is; Doesn't the preponderance of polar sea ice melting come from ocean heat, not radiation?

30 March, 2017 — NASA scientists say that in the last six months the world has lost an area of polar sea ice that is bigger than Mexico.

They found that the circulation of air — and its temperature and humidity — could contribute 60 % of the polar sea ice decline since 1979.