From the American Geophysical Union: WASHINGTON, DC — Humans may have been altering Arctic sea ice longer than previously thought, according to researchers studying the effects of air pollution
on sea ice growth in the mid-20th Century.
Not exact matches
The
growth of Antarctic
sea ice in the winter exhibits more short - term ups and downs (seen as wiggles
on the graphs charting the
growth) than Arctic
sea ice does, and so the Antarctic maximum takes longer to emerge from the noise.
«Because these plants are photosynthetic, it's not surprising to find that as the amount of
sea ice cover declined, the amount of [photosynthesis] increased,» says biological oceanographer Kevin Arrigo of Stanford University's School of Earth Sciences, who led an effort to use the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) devices
on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites to determine changes in phytoplankton
growth.
«We found that the Antarctic
ice sheet had an uneven effect
on the global
sea level because its
growth resulted in a complex interplay between gravitational and rotational effects and the deformations to Earth's crust caused by
ice advance and retreat,» he says.
Eric Post, a Penn State University professor of biology, and Jeffrey Kerby, a Penn State graduate student, have linked the melting of Arctic
sea ice with changes in the timing of plant
growth on land, which in turn is associated with lower production of calves by caribou in the area.
Continuous annually layered strata provide the best kind of geological archive in which to search for a «golden spike» — these form
on the floors of oxygen - starved
seas and lakes, in glacial
ice, and in corals and trees with seasonal
growth rings
Freshwater flux has little effect
on simulated Northern Hemisphere
sea ice until the 7th decade of freshwater
growth (Fig. 13d), but Southern Hemisphere
sea ice is more sensitive, with substantial response in the 5th decade and large response in the 6th decade.
However,
sea ice then grows very rapidly, since the
growth rate for thin
ice is much higher than for thick
ice, which acts as a negative feedback
on thickness during the
growth season (Bitz and Roe, 2004; Notz, 2009).
Unless scientists have totally missed the mark with their understanding of the greenhouse effect, there is no doubt that continued expansion of our population, coupled with continued economic
growth spurred
on primarily by fossil fuels, is going to continue to warm the planet, melt
ice, raise
sea levels, etc. for a long time to come.
Re # 49 & # 82 The limitations
on the
growth of algae in the arctic varies with the season, the effect of
sea -
ice melting is not as certain as Harold would have us believe: http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2005/2005JC002922.shtml http://www.nurp.noaa.gov/Spotlight/ArcticIce.htm
(The recent work of Huybers and Langmuir suggests that
on ice - age time scales, the loading and unloading of the planet by
ice growth / shrinkage and
sea - level fall / rise may weakly organize the volcanoes, but not a lot, and with nothing interesting for our time.)
ScienceDaily (Oct. 3, 2008)-- Arctic
sea ice extent during the 2008 melt season dropped to the second - lowest level since satellite measurements began in 1979, reaching the lowest point in its annual cycle of melt and growth on Sept. 14, according to researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center.&raq
ice extent during the 2008 melt season dropped to the second - lowest level since satellite measurements began in 1979, reaching the lowest point in its annual cycle of melt and
growth on Sept. 14, according to researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and
Ice Data Center.&raq
Ice Data Center.»
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The maps suggests
growth of parts of coastal East Antarctica, little change in the interior and
ice mass loss in West Antarctica (basins 18 - 27 and 1) focused
on the Amundsen
Sea Coast region (basins 20 - 23).
When there is evidence for the
growth of a large
ice sheet
on Antarctica or
on Greenland or the
growth of
sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, we see evidence for a dramatic change in carbon dioxide levels over the last 20 million years.
Dozens of autonomous buoys deployed
on the
sea ice as far as 20 kilometers away from the vessel measured the
growth and melting of
sea ice to give indications of ocean heat flux
on a larger scale.
Much of what we know and conclude about climate change is based
on computer models, which have proven to be inaccurate over the years, and the Antarctic
sea ice growth is another example of where the model went wrong.
For the decade of 2007 - 2017 (left), the research team predicts that there may be some
growth of winter
sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, particularly
on the Atlantic side, where scientists have the most confidence in the model's ability.
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-- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015GL064541/abstract High - resolution measurements of ocean temperature and salinity in the Arctic Ocean's Canada Basin reveal the importance of the release of solar - derived stored ocean heat
on sea -
ice growth.
That
growth of
sea ice could have potentially been caused by the influx of freshwater as glaciers
on land melted, or from changes in the winds that whip around the continent (changes that could be linked to warming or the loss of ozone high in the atmosphere).
This is often observed and commented
on in relation to
sea ice as «
growth», or a surface increase.