Sentences with phrase «ongoing loss of sea ice»

Not exact matches

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.

Joughin et al. (2010) applied a numerical ice sheet model to predicting the future of PIG, their model suggested ongoing loss of ice mass from PIG, with a maximum rate of global sea level rise of 2.7 cm per century.

«The ongoing rapid loss of Arctic sea ice has far reaching consequences for climate, ecology, and human activities alike,» Dirk Notz and Julienne Stroeve write in Science.

But once the ongoing effect of warming shocks to the glacier front were modeled for the next 90 years, a maximum realistic sea - level rise from Greenland's ice - loss was 2 inches.

The main memory is through the warming of the oceans, manifested in part through the ongoing rise in sea level, and the loss of Arctic sea ice and glacier mass.

Ongoing sea level rise due to the loss of ice mass into the sea is and will impact coastlines profoundly but to different degrees — i.e., the oceans are not a simple bathtub subject to uniform sea level rise.

You refer to the ongoing loss of the Arctic Sea Ice cap, which is indeed ongoing, but floating (and thus adds nothing to the sea level budgeSea Ice cap, which is indeed ongoing, but floating (and thus adds nothing to the sea level budgesea level budget).