Sentences with phrase «polar regions because»

But cooling is unlikely in the polar regions because sunlight which gets past the clouds is probably reflected by snow and ice anyway.

The Bootstrap sea ice concentration data set is believed to be more useful for modeling and process studies in the polar regions because it is generally free of residual errors that could not be removed by conventional techniques.

It aims to give a more complete picture of the changes taking place in polar regions because of climate change.

Not exact matches

But these low - oxygen waters near the equator are expanding, because the water in the polar regions is not as cold and is not absorbing as much oxygen as it used to be.

Because these warm - blooded creatures had to endure the darkness of winter in the polar regions, Rich's group gave it the official name of Ausktribosphenos nyktos, the «Australian Cretaceous tribosphenic mammal that lived by night.»

«There are ways that this approach could increase global ozone but at the same time, because of the climate dynamics in the polar regions, increase the ozone hole.»

The newly discovered phenomenon over the South Seas boosts ozone depletion in the polar regions and could have a significant influence on the future climate of Earth — also because of rising air pollution in South East Asia.

These include methane, nitrous oxide («laughing gas»), halons, methyl bromide and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which are notorious as «ozone killers» because they play a major role in ozone depletion in the polar regions.

Because ocean currents play a major role in transporting the planet's heat and carbon, the ECCO simulations are being used to understand the ocean's influence on global climate and the melting of ice in polar regions.

Black carbon warms the atmosphere because of its ability to absorb radiation from the sun, but its effect can be especially pernicious in polar regions, where, falling on bright ice, the soot diminishes the regions» ability to reflect away heat.

Drifting snow is a complicated and poorly understood process that is important to fathom because it accounts for a major fraction of wind - blown snow redistribution within polar and mountainous regions of the world.

The team was especially interested in regions near the north and south poles, because the polar ice caps are the planet's largest known reservoir of water.

There are ways that this approach could increase global ozone but at the same time, because of the climate dynamics in the polar regions, increase the ozone hole,» Keith said.

Because of this, ice deposits in the polar regions are likely to be diminished in the summer period, while the build - up of ice in Tombaugh Regio may have endured for millions of years.

The differences are that the UVic model has a smaller forcing from the ice sheets, possibly because of an insufficiently steep lapse rate (5ºC / km instead of a steeper value that would be more typical of dryer polar regions), and also a smaller change from increased dust.

The polar regions of Jupiter haven't been studied previously because they are difficult to see from Earth.

Because they depend on sea ice to hunt seals, the polar bear is considered threatened as global warming melts and thins ice in this region.

New research shows that the mythical - looking marine mammals that thrive in polar regions are experiencing symptoms of chronic stress, likely because of how climate change is affecting their habitats.

We know this because of the ice core analysis from the polar regions both north and south.

Ten celsius (50F) works well because that temperature seems to be too cool for equatorial regions and too warm for polar regions in the mind of the average viewer.

The S polar region is intrinsically colder because the ice is over land and can not be melted from the bottom, thus is always reflecting energy.

The warm air above nocturnal or polar inversions, or even stable air masses with small positive lapse rates, are warmer than otherwise because of heat capacity and radiant + convective heating during daytime and / or because of heating occurring at other latitudes / regions that is transported to higher latitudes / regions.

I am arguing that because the area of the polar region (higher than latitude 60) is approximately a third of the area of the tropics (lower than latitude 30), then the global temperature will be dominated by that of the tropics.

For example, conditions at the poles affect how much heat is retained by the earth because of the reflective properties of ice and snow, the world's ocean circulation depends on sinking in polar regions, and melting of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets could have drastic effects on sea level.

The surface waters around Antarctica were much fresher because cooler polar regions experience greater precipitation relative to evaporation.

As to your original premise that the melting of polar (land) ice would slow down the rotation because of sea level rise in the equatorial regions, I am still thinking on that question.

This helps the climate scamsters, because the climate is said to be changing in bad ways at hard to visit places, like the polar regions.

Bottom line: Barents Sea polar bears are loyal to this region because the eastern portion has the habitat they require to thrive even when sea ice cover in the western portion essentially disappears for thousands of years at a time.

The largest decreases have occurred at the highest latitudes in both hemispheres because of the large winter / spring depletion in polar regions.

Because the GISS analysis combines available sea surface temperature records with meteorological station measurements, we test alternative choices for the ocean data, showing that global temperature change is sensitive to estimated temperature change in polar regions where observations are limited.

Polar bears are one of the most sensitive Arctic marine mammals to climate warming because they spend most of their lives on sea ice.35 Declining sea ice in northern Alaska is associated with smaller bears, probably because of less successful hunting of seals, which are themselves ice - dependent and so are projected to decline with diminishing ice and snow cover.36, 37,38,39 Although bears can give birth to cubs on sea ice, increasing numbers of female bears now come ashore in Alaska in the summer and fall40 and den on land.41 In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.45

The high and persistent temperatures this fall are particularly extraordinary, scientists said, because the region has already plunged into «polar night,» the time of year when the sun no longer rises over the North Pole.

The amount of energy reflected in the polar regions is much less because the angle of the Sun.

It is also because angle of incidence in the polar regions is so low compared with the other regions of the world.

Partly because they give birth on mobile pack ice, harps have their pups earlier in the season than all other Arctic seals, which means that in some regions, they are a critical food source for polar bears that have eaten little over the winter months.

In addition, because of the complexities of climate and environment, it is quite possible to plausibly explain away apparently contradictory results, for instance that higher temperatures may result in increased snowfall in the polar regions.

The GISTEMP result differs because GISTEMP covers the polar regions missing from the other datasets.

And because the polar regions are the most sensitive to, and indicative of, the perils of climate change, we can have good reason to fear that the entire planet will topple over the tipping point as well.

As a side - effect, less auroras form in the middle latitudes because a stronger magnetic field and a less ionized ionosphere mostly constrains the auroras in the polar region.

Okay, I should be slightly careful here, as the expectation is really that the feedback response is not exactly linear as we double CO2, but this is thought to be because of different regions warming at different rates (polar amplification, for example) than because the response is actually non-linear.