Sentences with phrase «of sea ice melt»

However, Arctic summer weather still exerts a strong control on the severity of sea ice melt, and prolonged periods of above - average temperatures were generally absent during Summer 2017 except in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska.

Contrary to some reporting, that projection has been unchanged for years, though Maslowski is in the process of creating a more sophisticated model that he expects «will improve prediction of sea ice melt,» as he explained to me recently.

The issue of southern sea ice is really just a distraction which diverts our attention from the more important issue of sea ice melt in the Arctic.

Only during interglacials, like the one we are in now, does some of the sea ice melt during summer, when the top of the planet is oriented a bit more towards the Sun and receives large amounts of sunlight for several summer months.

The area of sea ice melt during 2007 - 9 was about 40 percent greater than the average prediction from I.P.C.C. AR4 climate models.

Does anyone have any interest in climatalogical impact of sea ice melt or is it all about breaking records?

«The base driver of sea ice melt ultimately is anthropogenic greenhouse gases,» Walt Meier, an Arctic expert at NASA, said.

Due to global warming, larger and larger areas of sea ice melt in the summer and when sea ice freezes over in the winter it is thinner and more reduced.

There has been a huge increase in the amount of sea ice melting each summer, and some are now predicting that as early as 2030 there will be no summer ice in the Arctic at all.

«Uncertain attribution of the sea ice melting, with natural internal variability hypothesized to account for at least 40 % of the loss»

McLaughlin's research shows that there is now evidence for falling concentrations of aragonite — the result of surface waters becoming more acidic because of the sea ice melting — making it more difficult for the shellfish to maintain their shells.

There has been a huge increase in the amount of sea ice melting each summer, and some are now predicting that as early as 2030 there will be no summer ice in the Arctic at all.

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A decade of ice melt and warming seas will trigger a climate catastrophe, the researchers said, releasing up to 50 billion tonnes of the potent greenhouse gas.

The discovery is incredibly important, though, because it shows scientists exactly why the most vulnerable parts of Greenland's ice are melting so quickly — each summer since 1997, melting ice that would usually be captured and refrozen the next winter is now flowing straight out to sea.

Many of us who follow climate change news are aware that Greenland's ice is melting away, the Antarctic is cracking, and some Pacific islands are going underwater as seas rise — all because we are pumping more greenhouse gases into the thin layer of atmosphere in which we live.

And if TransCanada's Energy East proposal doesn't fly, then plans are already afoot to take advantage of melting Arctic sea ice and head north.

Rising temperatures will warm the oceans and accelerate melting of land ice, affecting sea - levels along the California coast.

The second cause of sea level increase is the melting of land ice — such as glaciers and ice sheets.

Further, the less time an ice sheet has to create new layers of ice each winter, the less strong ice is created and built into centuries of previous strong sea ice, leaving ever more vulnerable and easy - to - melt sea ice.

The melting of the arctic ice and the Greenland glaciers along with the warming of the ocean will raise sea levels and flood some of the world's most populous and fertile regions, the deltas of the great rivers.

Gore begins with hero scientists like Roger Revelle, who first began to imagine the magnitude of this tragedy, and continues through the latest scientific findings, like last fall's revelation that the ice over Greenland seems to be melting much faster than anyone had predicted — news that carries potentially cataclysmic implications for the rate of sea - level rise.

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But Arctic sea ice has been consistently below the long - term average since 2003 and the summer melts of 2007, 2008 and 2009 were the three largest melts recorded.

He said the idea to pack the water, conceived some few years back through his interaction with the charity, was necessitated by the fact that the accumulated ice was melting away into the sea and going waste due to climate change effects while some people were in need of water.

According to the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), an NSF Science and Technology Center led by the University of Kansas, the melt from Greenland's ice sheet contributes to global sea level rise at a rate of 0.52 millimeters annualIce Sheets (CReSIS), an NSF Science and Technology Center led by the University of Kansas, the melt from Greenland's ice sheet contributes to global sea level rise at a rate of 0.52 millimeters annualice sheet contributes to global sea level rise at a rate of 0.52 millimeters annually.

To forecast sea level rise, a flotilla of robot subs must map the unseen bottom of a melting ice shelf — if they are not sunk by it

«Such warming could cause accelerated melting of glacial ice and a consequent increase in the sea level of several feet over the next century,» she told a meeting of the UK's Royal Society.

As melting sea ice opens up the Arctic to more human activity, the mammals, known as «unicorns of the sea» for their single tusk, may be more exposed to the potentially harmful escape response, scientists say.

The record - setting melt of Arctic sea ice helped set the stage for Hurricane Sandy according to scientists

For example, Kangerdlugssuaq glacier has lost mass from melting and, in its thinner form, has less weight to speed the flow of its ice toward the sea.

Most sea - level rise comes from water and ice moving from land into the ocean, but the melting of floating ice causes a small amount of sea - level rise, too.

Computer model simulations have suggested that ice - sheet melting through warm water incursions could initiate a collapse of the WAIS within the next few centuries, raising global sea - level by up to 3.5 metres.»

A new University of Washington study, with funding and satellite data from NASA and other agencies, finds a trend toward earlier sea ice melt in the spring and later ice growth in the fall across all 19 polar bear populations, which can negatively impact the feeding and breeding capabilities of the bears.

Scientists from Rice University and Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi's Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies have discovered that Earth's sea level did not rise steadily but rather in sharp, punctuated bursts when the planet's glaciers melted during the period of global warming at the close of the last ice age.

The research team — which utilized 34,000 data records from 2010 and 2011 — concluded that melting sea ice is diluting seawater and reducing the concentrations of the carbonate minerals critical as building blocks for the shells of marine life.

The Greenland ice sheet occupies about 82 % of the surface of Greenland, and if melted would cause sea levels to rise by 7.2 metres.

Such erosion can result from any number of factors, including the simple inundation of the land by rising sea levels resulting from the melting of the polar ice caps.

This year's Arctic sea ice cover currently is the sixth - lowest on modern record, a ranking that raises ongoing concerns about the speed of ice melt and the effects of ice loss on global weather patterns, geopolitical fights, indigenous peoples and wildlife, scientists said yesterday.

Superstorm Sandy can't be directly, indubitably linked to the massive amount of Arctic sea ice that melted in 2012, said Greene.

Satellite data show that, between 1979 and 2013, the summer ice - free season expanded by an average of 5 to 10 weeks in 12 Arctic regions, with sea ice forming later in the fall and melting earlier in the spring.

An article in the March issue of Oceanography, authored by scientists from Cornell and Rutgers universities, points to 2012's unprecedented Arctic sea ice melt as the root cause of the events that transformed a relatively modest storm into a destructive force (ClimateWire, Sept. 20, 2012).

Melting of the ice shelves doesn't directly affect sea level rise, because they're already floating.

As it melts, sea levels around it will fall, say Natalya Gomez and Jerry Mitrovica of Harvard University and colleagues: with the mass of ice shrinking, its gravitational pull on the seawater will be weaker.

The thick sea ice in the Arctic Ocean was not expected to melt until the end of the century.

But climate change is heating up the atmosphere and substantial amounts of offshore sea ice are melting.

Recent NASA photos showed the opening of the Northwest Passage and that a third of the Arctic's sea ice has melted in recent decades.

So, what tourism is impacting and actually what climate change is impacting is a relatively very small piece of that peninsula; but you know the impact on the peninsula if all that ice melts could be huge; when they talk about sea levels rising, you know, by inches and feet, you know if that ice along the peninsula melts they will add to the volume of the sea very quickly.

That widespread melting leaves huge swaths of dark ocean water that absorbs more heat from the sun than the white, reflective sea ice it replaces.

Dear EarthTalk: Recent NASA photos showed the opening of the Northwest Passage and that a third of the Arctic's sea ice has melted in recent.

After further analysis of the data, the scientists found that although a strong El Niño changes wind patterns in West Antarctica in a way that promotes flow of warm ocean waters towards the ice shelves to increase melting from below, it also increases snowfall particularly along the Amundsen Sea sector.