Sentences with phrase «of sea ice thickness»

Our results stress the importance of considering loss of sea ice thickness in future climate change assessments.

She says improved summer weather predictions as well as satellite measurements of sea ice thickness and concentration could help forecasting.

In this study, we conduct sensitivity experiments to isolate the role of sea ice thickness on the atmospheric circulation.

• How can improved estimates of sea ice thickness help improve seasonal predictions of sea ice conditions?

Note, that the ocean heat content includes loss of sea ice area, but not loss of sea ice thickness.

Loss of sea ice thickness contributes to a negative Northern Annular Mode (NAM / NAO)- like response, which is found in the net sea ice loss experiment.

«It may even be possible to predict sea ice cover a year in advance with high - quality observations of sea ice thickness and snow cover over the whole Arctic,» said Cecilia Bitz, co-author and professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington.

Babko, O., D.A. Rothrock, and G.A. Maykut, 2002: Role of rafting in the mechanical redistribution of sea ice thickness.

Ship reports of sea ice thickness will help evaluate the vulnerability of the first - year and second - year ice to solar and ocean heating.

Instead, we are interested in isolating the role of sea ice thickness on the atmosphere and quantifying its contribution compared to sea ice concentration.

Our model experiments demonstrate that the response to loss of sea ice thickness reinforces the effect of loss of sea ice concentration in the troposphere.

The research involved measurements of sea ice thickness made by upward - looking sonar aboard naval submarines operating under the ice sheet.

Researchers used 88 million measurements of sea ice thickness recorded by the European Space Agency's CryoSat - 2 mission between 2010 and 2014.

To make use of that potential we would need good estimates of sea ice thickness, such as might be obtained from ICESat or CryoSat (i.e., complete spatial coverage).

Overall, we find the loss of sea ice thickness contributes up to 1/3 of the response from loss of sea ice concentration in the lower to mid-atmosphere.

As a result of limited satellite observations of sea ice thickness (for more information: Sea Ice Thickness Data Sets: Overview and Comparison), few climate modeling experiments have isolated the role of changing sea ice thickness.

Overall, we conduct five different experiments using WACCM4 to compare the atmosphere responses to loss of sea ice concentration (SIC), loss of sea ice thickness (SIT), and their combined effect (NET).