Sentences with phrase «receding sea ice cover»

Cambridge ocean physicist Peter Wadhams said receding sea ice cover in the Arctic has allowed summer temperatures in the East Siberian Sea to rise several degrees above freezing.

If the heat transport by the Atlantic thermohaline circulation suddenly increases for some reason (we'll come to that), Greenland suddenly gets warm (an effect amplified by receding sea ice cover of the seas near Greenland) and Antarctica starts to cool.

Not exact matches

There were hints that the floating sea - ice cover at summer's end was receding, accompanied by shifts in ocean circulation.

Arctic sea ice cover as of Wednesday reflects had already begun to slowly recede two weeks after it had reached its maximum extent for the winter of 2016 - 17 on March 7, when it reached 5.57 million square miles (14.42 million square kilometers).

The evidence for AGW covers a number of areas: increases in CO2 levels, overall warming, a rise in sea levels, falls in snow cover, receding glaciers, a decrease in Arctic ice, earlier springs, treelines moving towards the poles.

«Even if the thermometer had never been invented, the evidence is there from deep ocean changes, from receding glaciers, from rising sea levels and receding sea ice and spring snow cover.