Sentences with phrase «recent snow and ice»

With the recent snow and ice on the roads in Georgia, there have been numerous multi-vehicle crashes including one involving 27 cars.

The recent snow and ice in Boston made it very difficult for people to get around, especially pizza delivery drivers.

With recent snow and ice, we were prepared for the cold... but I was less prepared for warmer temps melting everything into a muddy mess.

Not exact matches

In recent years, in the islands and on the mainland he has enjoyed himself thoroughly riding waves, skiing on both snow and water, playing football, tennis, ice hockey, golf, handball and squash.

A West Brom die - hard fan, Jamie Bourn, is going even further by praying that the recent snow is a sign that the next Ice Age is upon us and then the Premier League season will be to be cancelled.

Signs of repeated ice - and snow - melt in a mid-latitude gully may point to the most recent water activity on the Red Planet's surface

The team suspects that some of the pockets in these gullies might have held water in various forms in the recent past, over the last few hundreds of thousands of years, periodically harboring snow and ice when the conditions were right.

According to the recent Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic report, if we reduce emissions roughly in line with the Paris Agreement, we would see an additional 54 centimeters of global sea level rise by 2100.

Spatial and temporal variability in snow accumulation at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide over recent centuries.

«There wasn't enough tread left to grip the road very well, and the recent pilings of snow and ice made for a scary ride home from Chicago as I tried to outrun an impending snow storm.»

In my estimation, some of the finest suspense novels in recent memory hail (sorry, couldn't resist the pun) from the lands of ice and snow Scandinavia.

Some maps showing these projections are in the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program's recent synthesis report, «Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic.»

black soot has also been found by a recent university of california study to be the direct cause of the albedo warming effect on the otherwise highly reflective and pristine white arctic ice & snow.

Some really interesting recent weather events in the High Arctic have shown me the reality of a warmer polar region, snow flakes do not melt in an ocean -1.5 C cold, and ice does not form when its -6 C outside.

And may I add looks remarkably similar to the idealized deformation of the polar vortex under scenarios with Arctic warming, low Arctic sea ice and increased Siberian snow cover presented in my recent review paper with Jennifer Francis [of Rutgers UniversitAnd may I add looks remarkably similar to the idealized deformation of the polar vortex under scenarios with Arctic warming, low Arctic sea ice and increased Siberian snow cover presented in my recent review paper with Jennifer Francis [of Rutgers Universitand increased Siberian snow cover presented in my recent review paper with Jennifer Francis [of Rutgers University].

The unusual pattern of atmospheric high and low pressure over and around the Arctic that has contributed to the recent snow and cold from Alabama to Washington, to East Anglia, England (and rain and warmth along the west coast of Greenland) is also an important influence on the shifting sheath of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean.

Florence Fetterer of the National Snow and Ice Data Center referred me to the results of a recent symposium on sea ice (pdf), described in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological SocieIce Data Center referred me to the results of a recent symposium on sea ice (pdf), described in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Socieice (pdf), described in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society:

The most recent ice data, 10 June 2013, from a SAMS ice mass balance buoy installed in the fast ice in Inglefieldbukta (N 77 ° 54», E 18 ° 17») reported an ice thickness of about 88 cm and snow depth 20 cm.

The dramatic decline in Arctic sea ice and snow is one of the most profound signs of global warming and has coincided with «a period of ostensibly more frequent events of extreme weather across the mid-latitudes, including extreme heat and rainfall events and recent severe winters,» according to the conference organizers, who are posting updates under the #arctic17 hashtag on Twitter.

Meanwhile during this period of ice melt, Mt. Blanc in Europe and Mt. Logan in North America have both recently had their elevations increased due to the significan accumulation of snow in recent years - hardly what I would say is an indicator of serious global warming.

Improvements in seasonal forecasting practice arising from recent research include accurate initialization of snow and frozen soil, accounting for observational uncertainty in forecast verification, and sea - ice thickness initialization using statistical predictors available in real time.

«Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 is very high,» says the International Commission for Snow and Ice (ICSI) in its recent study on Asian glaciers.

There are, however, caveats: (1) multidecadal fluctuations in Arctic — subarctic climate and sea ice appear most pronounced in the Atlantic sector, such that the pan-Arctic signal may be substantially smaller [e.g., Polyakov et al., 2003; Mahajan et al., 2011]; (2) the sea - ice records synthesized here represent primarily the cold season (winter — spring), whereas the satellite record clearly shows losses primarily in summer, suggesting that other processes and feedback are important; (3) observations show that while recent sea - ice losses in winter are most pronounced in the Greenland and Barents Seas, the largest reductions in summer are remote from the Atlantic, e.g., Beaufort, Chukchi, and Siberian seas (National Snow and Ice Data Center, 2012, http://nsidc.org/Arcticseaicenews/); and (4) the recent reductions in sea ice should not be considered merely the latest in a sequence of AMOrelated multidecadal fluctuations but rather the first one to be superposed upon an anthropogenic GHG warming background signal that is emerging strongly in the Arctic [Kaufmann et al., 2009; Serreze et al., 200ice appear most pronounced in the Atlantic sector, such that the pan-Arctic signal may be substantially smaller [e.g., Polyakov et al., 2003; Mahajan et al., 2011]; (2) the sea - ice records synthesized here represent primarily the cold season (winter — spring), whereas the satellite record clearly shows losses primarily in summer, suggesting that other processes and feedback are important; (3) observations show that while recent sea - ice losses in winter are most pronounced in the Greenland and Barents Seas, the largest reductions in summer are remote from the Atlantic, e.g., Beaufort, Chukchi, and Siberian seas (National Snow and Ice Data Center, 2012, http://nsidc.org/Arcticseaicenews/); and (4) the recent reductions in sea ice should not be considered merely the latest in a sequence of AMOrelated multidecadal fluctuations but rather the first one to be superposed upon an anthropogenic GHG warming background signal that is emerging strongly in the Arctic [Kaufmann et al., 2009; Serreze et al., 200ice records synthesized here represent primarily the cold season (winter — spring), whereas the satellite record clearly shows losses primarily in summer, suggesting that other processes and feedback are important; (3) observations show that while recent sea - ice losses in winter are most pronounced in the Greenland and Barents Seas, the largest reductions in summer are remote from the Atlantic, e.g., Beaufort, Chukchi, and Siberian seas (National Snow and Ice Data Center, 2012, http://nsidc.org/Arcticseaicenews/); and (4) the recent reductions in sea ice should not be considered merely the latest in a sequence of AMOrelated multidecadal fluctuations but rather the first one to be superposed upon an anthropogenic GHG warming background signal that is emerging strongly in the Arctic [Kaufmann et al., 2009; Serreze et al., 200ice losses in winter are most pronounced in the Greenland and Barents Seas, the largest reductions in summer are remote from the Atlantic, e.g., Beaufort, Chukchi, and Siberian seas (National Snow and Ice Data Center, 2012, http://nsidc.org/Arcticseaicenews/); and (4) the recent reductions in sea ice should not be considered merely the latest in a sequence of AMOrelated multidecadal fluctuations but rather the first one to be superposed upon an anthropogenic GHG warming background signal that is emerging strongly in the Arctic [Kaufmann et al., 2009; Serreze et al., 200Ice Data Center, 2012, http://nsidc.org/Arcticseaicenews/); and (4) the recent reductions in sea ice should not be considered merely the latest in a sequence of AMOrelated multidecadal fluctuations but rather the first one to be superposed upon an anthropogenic GHG warming background signal that is emerging strongly in the Arctic [Kaufmann et al., 2009; Serreze et al., 200ice should not be considered merely the latest in a sequence of AMOrelated multidecadal fluctuations but rather the first one to be superposed upon an anthropogenic GHG warming background signal that is emerging strongly in the Arctic [Kaufmann et al., 2009; Serreze et al., 2009].

Editor's note: Marco Tedesco, Sarah Doherty, and other coauthors of the work described above urged the scientific community in a recent opinion piece on Eos.org to quantify the roles of multiple factors — among them coarsening of snow, light - absorbing particles, and melt ponds — in the darkening of the Greenland ice sheet's surface and subsequent ice loss.

This snowpack accumulation near the poles, which gets its water via the Arctic and Antarctic oceans, that in turn rob it from equatorial latitudes of our oceans, also results in a reduction in the earth's spin axis moment of inertia and causes the spin rate to increase as evidenced in the recent history of the rate at which Leap Seconds are added to our calendar (see Wysmuller's Toucan Equation for more on this evidence that during this warm time with much greater polar humidity, earlier seasonal, later seasonal and heavier snows are beginning to move water vapor from the oceans to the poles to re-build the polar ice caps and lead us into a global cooling, while man - made CO2 continues to increase http://www.colderside.com/faq.htm).

I suggest you look at global average temperature variations of the last 800,000 years inferred from Antarctica, Arctic and Greenland ice cores and also look at NOAA's similar time history DATA of when snow and ice accumulate at the poles in Mr. Pope's recent presentation to the Johnson Space Center Chapter of the NASA Alumni League.

We also show a recent «climatology» value calculated using mean daily sea ice concentrations for the period 2003 - 2012 from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), and the IFD values so far in 2014 (up to day 23ice concentrations for the period 2003 - 2012 from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), and the IFD values so far in 2014 (up to day 23Ice Data Center (NSIDC), and the IFD values so far in 2014 (up to day 231).

Meanwhile, up in the Arctic, distressing new information from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, shows that Arctic sea ice extent has settled to its fourth - lowest level ever measured at the end of the most recent melt seasIce Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, shows that Arctic sea ice extent has settled to its fourth - lowest level ever measured at the end of the most recent melt seasice extent has settled to its fourth - lowest level ever measured at the end of the most recent melt season.

These trends in extreme weather events are accompanied by longer - term changes as well, including surface and ocean temperature increase over recent decades, snow and ice cover decrease and sea level rise.

Recent research has shown that temperature changes in the Arctic are magnified by feedback over and above the effect of changing albedo due to reduced snow and ice cover.

The AER scientists took a different approach to reframe the question and, as a result, they demonstrate that snow cover in Asia and Arctic sea ice are related and key to understanding our recent streak of colder winters.»

A new study for the first time found links between the rapid loss of snow and sea ice cover in the Arctic and a recent spate of exceptional extreme heat events in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Recent studies identify black carbon, a component of ultrafine particulate air pollution, as a critical climate warming agent both in the atmosphere and when deposited on snow and ice.

Historical analysis shows that for large parts of evolution the earth was dramatically warmer and that it is relatively recent that we have had persistent long term ice ages that have covered the earth in snow and ice and left 50 % or so of the surface of the earth harsh and deadly to life.

However, spatially comprehensive surveys of impurities in Arctic snow in the late 2000s and mid-1980s suggested that impurities decreased between those two periods (Doherty et al., 2010) and hence albedo changes have probably not made a significant contribution to recent reductions in Arctic ice and snow.

We are knowledgeable about recent changes in Massachusetts» snow and ice law.

Pursuant to a recent Illinois Supreme Court decision, if a property owner shovels the snow or ice, and his or her efforts results in an «unnatural accumulation» of snow or ice that causes an injury, the property owner is still immune from liability.