Sentences with phrase «of polar winter»

He sings far beneath the ice in the dark of a polar winter, so maybe it's about time we listened to the incredible songs that this whale concocts every winter, every month and possibly each day!

He sings far beneath the ice in the dark of a polar winter, so maybe itÂ's about time we listened to the incredible songs that this whale concocts every winter, every month and possibly each day!

The depletion is due to the intense cold of the polar winter, not to CFCs or HCFCs.

Bio-optical sensors would supplement satellite observations of the ocean's color by providing measurements of chlorophyll, light, and light scattering deep into the ocean interior throughout the year, in cloud - and ice - covered areas, or during the dark of polar winter.

Not exact matches

There's nothing you can do to stop winter from setting in, but if the thought of another season of polar vortices and local news broadcasts about «snowmageddon» has you dreading the months ahead, perhaps there is another option for some lucky business owners and freelancers.

That means, unless you're sleeping outdoors in the winter, your baby probably doesn't need three layers of ultra polar fleece to be comfortable at night.

Play sets of polar bear and penguins are also great gifts to gear up for the celebrations of the chilly winters; kids also enjoy with jumping penguins and figures of polar bear in cute and cuddly fashion with scenic and wintry backgrounds.

Overall, eight subpopulations show signs of decline, including some groups of polar bears and seals that depend on winter ice for feeding and reproduction.

Colder temperatures and weaker high - altitude winds may make the arctic polar vortex even more intense in future winters and trigger greater ozone loss, says atmospheric scientist Paul Newman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, although the losses probably won't approach those in Antarctica.

In addition to polar bears, which were mostly hunted in winter, the Zhokhovians pursued reindeer hundreds of kilometers across vast plains.

Mori et al. identified two circulation patterns that drove winter temperatures in Eurasia from 1979 to 2013: the Arctic Oscillation (which confines colder air to the polar latitudes) and a pattern dubbed «Warm Arctic and Cold Eurasia» (WACE), which correlated both to sea - ice loss in the Barents - Kara Sea and to particularly cold winters; its impact has more than doubled the probability of severe winters in central Eurasia.

Because these warm - blooded creatures had to endure the darkness of winter in the polar regions, Rich's group gave it the official name of Ausktribosphenos nyktos, the «Australian Cretaceous tribosphenic mammal that lived by night.»

The negative impacts of warmer winters may be less evident in Nordic countries than in places like Alaska, where people and animals like polar bears and seals are more dependent on the presence of sea ice, according to Serreze.

The research is timely given the extreme winter of 2017 - 2018, including record warm Arctic and low sea ice, record - breaking polar vortex disruption, record - breaking cold and disruptive snowfalls in the United States and Europe, severe «bomb cyclones» and costly nor'easter s, said Judah Cohen, director of seasonal forecasting at AER and lead author of the study.

As we steel ourselves against the cold and curse the polar vortex for bringing these bitter winds upon us, its helpful to remember that winter can also be a magical time of fluttering snowflakes and beautiful evening skies.

«We found out that that winter there was an unusually high number of high pressure systems over the Barents Sea combined with polar lows.

The repeated bouts of warm weather this season have stunned polar researchers, and could push the Arctic to a record low winter peak for the third year in a row

The temperature of the stratosphere is one of the key factors in the springtime depletion of ozone above the Antarctic where in winter it gets colder than anywhere else on Earth, encouraging icy particles to form in polar stratospheric clouds.

Some earlier research suggested that polar bears could, at least partially, compensate for longer summer food deprivation by entering a state of lowered activity and reduced metabolic rate similar to winter hibernation — a so - called «walking hibernation.»

Real - time data transmission from remotely operated instruments is key in polar regions, where continuous climate data is particularly important and maintaining personnel in the Antarctic through the winter is expensive and hazardous, says Rita Colwell, an environmental microbiologist at the University of Maryland, College Park, and another co-author of the NRC report.

Rising polar temperatures caused the average thickness of winter Arctic sea ice to decrease from about 12 feet to 6 feet between 1978 and 2008, and thinner ice melts more readily.

• One is that the cold air above the Laurentide Ice Sheet created a tremendous high pressure system that shifted the polar jet stream to the south, pushing the track followed by winter storms down into the Southwest, which had the effect of dramatically reducing the amount of rainfall in the Northwest while increasing it in the Southwest.

When the strong winds that circle the Arctic slacken, cold polar air can escape and cause extreme winter chills in parts of the Northern hemisphere.

«Methane is volatile enough that it can only stick to the surface during the long, cold polar winters,» Will Grundy, lead author of the new study, told Space.com by email.

But some of these owls are not cool with polar winters.

The repeated bouts of warm weather this season have stunned even seasoned polar researchers, and could push the Arctic to a record low winter peak for the third year in a row.

It's unlikely that truly polar air will invade the Lower 48 for the rest of the month, which marks the end of meteorological winter.

An examination of these changes gave them new insights into how much of the polar ice cap's carbon dioxide freezes out of the atmosphere during winter.

Using the MIRO instrument aboard Rosetta, scientists have studied the southern polar regions of its target comet at the end of their long winter season.

Thus temperatures during the period when a lot of sunlight first returns to the polar areas following winter, March in the Arctic and September in the Antarctic, are crucial.

My thought is that the UK's temperate climate is primarily due to SWly prevailing winds blowing from the relatively warm ocean, as opposed to places on the eastern side of a large continent which will frequently receive cold polar continental airmasses in winter, because the mid-latitude westerlies will be blowing from a cold continental interior.

The new images show ozone in spring, suggesting that «global winds are inhibiting the spread of water vapor from the rest of the planet into winter polar regions.»

Decades of weather reports show a strong link between the polar blasts that have plunged the eastern United States in a deep freeze several times in the past few winters and the warming of the Arctic, where temperatures have been hitting unusual highs, a new study reports.

«We're saying they're connected, and certainly the fact that this warming of the Arctic is taking place up in the stratosphere, and that warming over the polar region is related to the increase in severe winter weather,» he said.

For example, few data are available for the polar winter, and it is not known whether aragonite - undersaturated areas decrease in size with the seasonal freezing of sea ice.

Since we're on the verge of another winter storm and polar vortex (OMG), thought I'd share some winter skin tips and some of my favorite cold weather essentials:

Apparently, I never knew what a real winter felt like until now: the year of the polar vortex.

Construction on the first Intrinsic School began during Chicago's famed «polar vortex» winter of 2013.

The pampered pooches have an enviable winter wardrobe of polar - fleece jackets, coats and snow booties.

We did find a trend that the animals in the experimental group were less likely to receive flea / tick or heartworm preventative, but we suspect this was due to the fact that the data for the experimental group was collected in the middle of the polar vortex winter in Northern Ohio, while data for the baseline group was collected in the fall.

Cabo San Lucas is a mecca for sun worshipers, especially during these winter months as the polar vortex continues to terrorize parts of North America.

As both a movie - tie in and Olympic competition, the timing of Ice Age: Continental Drift — Arctic Games «release is nearly impeccable, even it's polar cap - based sporting recreations evoke the Winter games rather than the imminent summer competitions.

In Chicago, Ghost Nature was sited as one of Hyperallergic's top 10 shows to see in Chicago during the polar vortex winter, made the top 20 and top 18 list of shows to see in the Chicago Magazine in January and February respectively, and was listed on the CAA website as a recommended exhibit.

With the exception of glaciers that terminate in the ocean, and glaciers in the polar regions or at extreme high altitudes where the temperature is always below freezing, essentially just two things determine whether a glacier is advancing or retreating: how much snow falls in the winter, and how warm it is during the summer.

The temperatures themselves are greatly influenced by the strength of the polar vortex, a wind that swirls around the pole and when strong, can keep air confined throughout the winter in the polar night, allowing it to cool dramatically.

Firstly, models do indeed predict polar amplification (particularly in the Arctic and particularly in winter) of global warming trends (see our previous piece on this concept) in general.

Some scientific indicators suggest a January 2016 weakening of the stratospheric polar vortex, increasing the chance for severe late winter weather over the continents.

Thus temperatures during the period when a lot of sunlight first returns to the polar areas following winter, March in the Arctic and September in the Antarctic, are crucial.

I do honestly wonder if the effects on polar circulation discussed above means a return, if temporary, to the «old normal» of Winter in the northern US.

We might have a saviour in the form of the growing antarctic ice sheets in the southern winter as this causes much more planckton to form on the undersurface of the forming ice sheet driving super saturated salty waters deep into the circum polar antarctic bottom waters which is the main driver of the Great Oceanic Conveyor and later on it's travels the AMOC.