Sentences with phrase «older sea ice from»

Each winter, it inhales cold air and causes a freeze up, then in the summer, it exhales a breath of older sea ice from the high Arctic into the seas on its southern edge.

Not exact matches

Centre analysts have begun testing the inclusion of sea - ice data from a Japanese satellite, but that spacecraft — designed to last five years — is now five years old.

The data that Old Weather volunteer citizen scientists meticulously transcribe from the logbooks are used to drive climate and sea ice models to help understand changes and improve predictions.

Add that to a changing climate which is causing damage to human constructions and releasing decade - old entrapped plastic debris from melting sea ice.

Other factors would include: — albedo shifts (both from ice > water, and from increased biological activity, and from edge melt revealing more land, and from more old dust coming to the surface...); — direct effect of CO2 on ice (the former weakens the latter); — increasing, and increasingly warm, rain fall on ice; — «stuck» weather systems bringing more and more warm tropical air ever further toward the poles; — melting of sea ice shelf increasing mobility of glaciers; — sea water getting under parts of the ice sheets where the base is below sea level; — melt water lubricating the ice sheet base; — changes in ocean currents -LRB-?)

The fate of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is determined by a complicated mix of factors, including the pressure changes, with the biggest loss of old thick ice resulting more from a great «flush» of floes than melting, Dr. Rigor and many other scientists tracking the region say.

There are degrees of everyone's positions here from those who think the IPCC is wrong because it is much too conservative through those who think the IPCC got it perfectly right to those who think the arctic sea ice has recovered because the record low level is now three years old through those who believe the GHE violates the laws of thermodynamics.

Varying thicknesses of sea ice are shown here, from thin, nearly transparent layers to thicker, older sea ice covered with snow.

H.H Lamb lists nine measurable effects including «Increasing spread of the Arctic ice sea ice into all the northernmost Atlantic and around Greenland, forcing the abandonment of the old sailing routes to Greenland which had been used from about A.D 1000 to 1300.»

This pink clay can be traced back to 400 million years old red sand stones at Svalbard, and was carried out to sea by melt water from the ice sheet.

Reasoning for a decrease in sea ice extent from recent years, perhaps approaching new record - low minimum, focuses on the below - normal sea ice thickness overall, the thinning of sea ice in coastal seas, rotting of old multi-year sea ice, warm temperatures in April and May 2010, and the rapid loss of sea ice area seen during May.

Stroeve's research expedition comes at the cusp of fundamental changes to the Arctic's sea ice cover — from older ice that is hard to melt, to seasonal ice that melts more quickly.

The NSIDC is also facing hot competition from the British Catlin Arctic Survey, which employs good old - fashioned Arctic explorers to do, we are told, what satellites can not, which is to measure the thickness of Arctic sea ice.

Like a cork removed from a champagne bottle, the early break up in these passages is allowing thick, old sea ice to flow south from the Arctic Ocean into the North Atlantic, choking areas used by fishing, shipping and ferry boats.

Old data from submarines (some of it released on the initiative of Vice President Gore) revealed thinning of ice, Rothrock et al. (1999); for sea ice extent, Overpeck et al. (2005), Lindsay and Zhang (2005), Stroeve et al. (2005).

Sea ice refused to export from the continental shelf, where it got thicker and thicker and older and older, while completely disappearing offshore.