Sentences with phrase «poleward retreat»

A robust feature of the response of climate models to increases in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases is the poleward retreat of terrestrial snow and sea ice, and the polar amplification of increases in lower - tropospheric temperature.

This animation shows the poleward retreat of permafrost (thick black line), and the loss of soil carbon to the atmosphere (red), as the climate warms.

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Once you prove that to 95 % that species ranges are retreating poleward, they ask for proof about specific species.

NSF - funded scientists believe at least part of the answer lies in the frozen tundras of Siberia, where greater - than - average autumn snowfall causes weather patterns in the Arctic regions to shift southward into the midlatitudes during the winter, while less - than - average snowfall causes the patterns to retreat poleward.

Their spatial extent towards the tropics moves with the jet stream, extending farthest towards the tropics (about 35 deg latitude) during winter and retreating polewards (polewards of 50 deg latitude) during summer.