Sentences with phrase «polar ice stream»
A numerical model of interactions between a polar ice stream and the ocean: Application to ice stream E, West Antarctica.
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Shipp, S.S., Wellner, J.S., and Anderson, J.B., Retreat significance of a polar ice stream: sub-glacial geomorphic features and sediments from the Ross Sea, Antarctica: J.A. Dowdeswell and C. O'Cofaigh (eds.)
A model of a polar ice stream, and future sea - level rise due to possible drastic retreat of the West Antarctic ice sheet.
Not exact matches
• One is that the cold air above the Laurentide Ice Sheet created a tremendous high pressure system that shifted the polar jet stream to the south, pushing the track followed by winter storms down into the Southwest, which had the effect of dramatically reducing the amount of rainfall in the Northwest while increasing it in the Southwest.
When they can't do a single detail right (polar ice, ENSO, precip, jet stream, blocking, ITCZ, tropical tropo hot spot.....)
Those are fast - flowing streams of ice,» said Martinson, who specializes in polar oceans.
Screen (32) explored the influence of Arctic sea ice on European summer climate using a state - of - the - art atmospheric model in view of the historically unprecedented sequence of six consecutive wet summers from 2007 to 2012 in northern Europe, which featured a marked southward shift of the polar jet stream.
As warmer waters stream into an increasingly ice - free Arctic Ocean, new species — from phytoplankton to whales — have the potential to upend this sensitive polar environment.
During the ice age, due to the large polar cooling, the northern hemisphere jet stream extended more southwards.
While climate change does not affect Earth's tilt, it does have potential implications for many of the other factors that influence winter weather in the US, including Arctic sea ice, the polar jet stream, the polar vortex, and El Niño.
Earlier this year, climate scientist Marco Tedesco of Columbia University published data supporting an earlier proposal that the retreat of Arctic sea ice has disrupted the polar jet stream, causing weather systems to meander more slowly from west to east.