Sentences with phrase «other recent years»

In spite of last winter's snow, the decade 2000 - 2009 was the warmest on record, with 2009 tying a cluster of other recent years as the second warmest single year.

You can also see what the satellite is seeing and Today's Ice versus other recent years from the International Arctic Research Center, showing that this year's ice is well below the average for the warm months.

That's down from 145 million square feet of space that was delivered last year, but still quite a bit above other recent years, according to Marcus & Millichap.

Considerable first - year sea ice survived summer melt in 2009 to constitute second - year sea ice, in contrast with low survival in other recent years.

Last year tied with a cluster of other recent years — 1998, 2002, 2003, 2006 and 2007 1998 and 2007 — as the second warmest year since 1880.

This week on «New York NOW,» we look back at 2011, which was much less turbulent, politically - speaking, than other recent years.

It was also a year when more different games captured a # 1 vote spot over any other recent year.

United States Geological Survey scientists have noted that thousands of Pacific walruses have come ashore in Alaska, as has happened in some other recent years when the ice between Russia and Alaska has pulled far offshore.

2014 was the third warmest year in the 36 - year global satellite temperature record, but by such a small margin (0.01 °C) as to be statistically similar to other recent years.

Figure 2: Break - up timing and solar shortwave energy incident at the surface (mean and cumulative shown on bottom and left axis, respectively) for 2009 (thick red line) and other recent years.

The rapid sea ice loss in early June 2012 and in other recent years was associated with the presence of the Arctic Dipole (AD) pressure pattern with high pressure on the North American side and low pressure on the Siberian side.

The story also reported that 2014 was the hottest year on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA, but did not include the caveat that other recent years had average temperatures that were almost as high — and they all fall within a margin of error that lessens the certainty that any one of the years was the hottest.

Observations from the North Pole Environmental Observatory indicate that freeze - up started in late August (almost a week earlier than in other recent years), surface ocean temperatures are at the freezing point, and a near lack of snow cover will promote rapid ice growth.

Break - up timing and solar shortwave energy incident at the surface (mean and cumulative shown on bottom and left axis, respectively) for 2009 (thick red line = observed as of July 6; thinner dark red line = forecast) and other recent years.

Polar bears had more sea ice cover and better hunting this year in Hudson's Bay than in other recent years.

Figure 6: Antarctic sea ice extent for 2017 and other recent years, plus the record low year of 1986, compared to the 1981 - 2010 average, with 1 and 2 standard deviation intervals indicated.

Jennifer Francis, a researcher at Rutgers University and the most prominent proponent of the hypothesis that Arctic warming is altering the jet stream around the Northern Hemisphere, told Climate Central that while the cold snap is brief in duration, it fits with patterns observed this year and in other recent years.

One can immediately see that April this year saw greater ice extent than any other recent year.

While sea ice was more extensive in 2013 than in other recent years, it fits into range of variability characteristic of the time period 2007 - 2011 with a similar path of summer ice evolution as 2009 (Figure 2).

The bankruptcy laws haven't seen much update since the 2005 BAPCPA reform, and filing bankruptcy in 2014 is virtually no different than any other recent year.