Sentences with phrase «regions ice area»

In both regions ice area is predicted to be slightly higher than in 2011.

Not exact matches

In spite of the icy temperatures in the region, satellite images depict a large ice - free area in the middle of the ice cover.

A new University of Colorado Boulder study comparing dissolved black carbon deposition on ice and snow in ecosystems around the world (including Antarctica, the Arctic, and alpine regions of the Himalayas, Rockies, Andes, and Alps) shows that while concentrations vary widely, significant amounts can persist in both pristine and non-pristine areas of snow.

On January 14, the Huygens probe will parachute to the surface and show what lies beneath the haze: Light areas may be ice continents; darker regions could be chilly ethane seas.

In previously ice - rich areas such as the Beaufort Gyre off the Alaskan coast or the region south of Spitsbergen, the sea ice is considerably thinner now than it normally is during the spring.

A cloud front can be seen in the lower left, and dark areas indicate regions of open water between sea ice formations.

A possible cause for the accelerated Arctic warming is the melting of the region's sea ice, which reduces the icy, bright area that can reflect sunlight back out into space, resulting in more solar radiation being absorbed by the dark Arctic waters.

For their work Maksym and co-investigators Guy Williams from the University of Hobart, Tasmania and Jeremy Wilkinson of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK, used a robot known as an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to cruise under ice in three regions near the coast and measure the thickness directly over a much larger area.

His team has shown that the brightest regions detected by the radio telescopes match up with the coldest areas on Mercury, where ice can exist on the surface.

Previous research estimated that it covered much of western Canada as late as 12,500 years ago, but new data shows that large areas in the region were ice - free as early as 1,500 years earlier.

Through November the area of ice - covered ocean in the region reached a record low in seven of 11 months — an unprecedented stretch.

The findings suggest that the Indo - Pacific area would see a 40 per cent increase in fisheries catches at 1.5 C warming versus 3.5 C. Meanwhile the Arctic region would have a greater influx of fish under the 3.5 C scenario but would also lose more sea ice and face pressure to expand fisheries.

That's the equivalent of a missing area of sea ice almost four times the size of Colorado, and puts this year right in line with a trend of ever decreasing sea ice in the region as the climate warms.

As it decreases, the lack of Arctic sea ice could reshape the economy of the region, opening previously inaccessible areas for oil and gas extraction and shipping.

Reconstructions of past Hothouse climates had shown that temperatures had been around six degrees higher on average, and higher still in polar regions, with no polar ice - caps and a temperate to subtropical fauna and flora, as evidenced by the fossil record in these areas.

Such research is now becoming urgent as regional climate change is already impacting upon areas of West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula [30] and colonies in this region may already be affected by the consequent loss of sea ice [8].

The drink will be available year - round in stores across the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, New York metro area, and Midwest, which are the regions that apparently drink the most iced coffee.

The Capital Region largely sits on clay and silt deposited by a lake that swallowed the area during the last Ice Age, said Andrew Kozlowski, an associate state geologist at the State Museum and director of the state Geologic Mapping Program.

Spectacular vertical granite peaks, immense rivers of ice, wind - swept plains and native beech forests define this spot of intense rugged beauty in the South of Chili and Argentina, where the Andes mountains are covered by the most extensive area of glaciers outside the world's polar regions.

Assume equal distribution of light (this favors ice since polar regions actually receive less light per unit area).

If some suitably huge area of the arctic is totally free of ice this summer, could it then be claimed with confidence that this was the first time such a large region was free of ice in «x» years, where x is some largeish number like 50,000 or 100,000?

[Response: Someone may have a more precise definition but it's basically the relatively straight part of the glacier (think, «river») below the large, usually more circular catchment area (think «watershed») and the «toe» region (typically an ice shelf for the glaciers in question here).

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At an average height of 13,000 feet above sea level, they make up the largest area of ice outside the polar regions, nearly a sixth of the world's total.

This study proposes a mechanism sustaining the enhanced westerly winds by a cyclonic atmospheric circulation in the Barents Sea region created by a strong surface heat flux over the ice - free areas.

The ice in this region of approximately 100 kilometers in diameter is always thinner than the surrounding regions, and small areas of open water are common year - round.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

Other pages display maps of individual glaciers, with white regions indicating the «accumulation zone,» where snow falls and adds to the mass, and gray stippled areas showing the «ablation zone,» where melting eats away at the ice.

Generally, in this region you may have several melt re-freeze cycles, with a blanket of new fallen snow with a reflectivity in the UV range of near 90 % versus something in the area of 50 % of ice within the first foot.

The blue on the left map shows the extent of the ice, which was greater in area than Antarctica and 3000 m (10,000 feet) deep in the dark blue region centered on Hudson Bay.

Far more certainly there will be changes in surface reflectivity; changes in snow and ice cover, open water area, regions of desert, vegetation patterns etc..

We need further field data from key areas of East Antarctica to reject some of the ice model scenarios — although there are fewer rock outcrops to sample geologically and geodetically in this region there are still large regions where outcrops exist but no, or few, data have been collected and / or results have been published.

The total area covered by thick older ice that survives one or more summers («multi-year ice») shrank 42 percent or 1.54 million square kilometers (595,000 square miles), leaving thinner first - year ice («seasonal ice») as the dominant type of ice in the region.

The region's sea ice extent — defined by NSIDC as the total area covered by at least 15 percent of ice — varies from year to year because of changeable weather conditions.

Russia's president also pointed to the economic importance of the Arctic region as he argued global warming and ice melting in the area created beneficial conditions for economic improvement.

When they measure the ice they divide the area into regions, and if a region is more than 15 percent ice they say it's ice - covered.

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

Since the whole world does not appear to freeze during a ice age, the must be massive ice making going at the pole driven by heat lifting oceans of water to the sky from the equator where it is pushed by the expanding air and vapor to the poles areas where it returns to the surface and follows cold land like a culvert between warmer expanding ocean air back down to the equatoral region.

Equilibrium line - The boundary between the region on a glacier where there is a net annual loss of ice mass (ablation area) and that where there is a net annual gain (accumulation area).

The only comprehensive study of the Antarctic Ice Sheet mass was a 10 + year study based on continuous 24/365 satellite measurements over the period 1993 to 2003, covering 80 % of the AIS with estimates from other methods for the remaining 20 %, which can not be measured by satellites (coastal areas and polar regions).

And with regard to Antarctic «trends» — virtually all the action is on the Peninsula region and the Western Ice Sheet (about 15 % of the area)-- with no significant trend for the other 85 % of the continent.

Dark blue regions are areas of first - year sea ice.

Landfast ice disintegrated somewhat later (about one week) in the region than last year, but was already unstable and unsafe in many areas prior to that.

Purple regions are areas of first - year sea ice.

There is much talk about naive assumptions of the effects of reduced ice area on the energy budget of the region.

«The authors write that «the Mediterranean region is one of the world's most vulnerable areas with respect to global warming,»... they thus consider it to be extremely important to determine what impact further temperature increases might have on the storminess of the region... produced a high - resolution record of paleostorm events along the French Mediterranean coast over the past 7000 years... from the sediment bed of Pierre Blanche Lagoon [near Montpellier, France]... nine French scientists, as they describe it, «recorded seven periods of increased storm activity at 6300 - 6100, 5650 - 5400, 4400 - 4050, 3650 - 3200, 2800 - 2600, 1950 - 1400, and 400 - 50 cal yr BP,» the latter of which intervals they associate with the Little Ice Age.

It found that decreasing ice cover in this region doubles the chances of unusually cold winters across wide areas to the south and east.

The ongoing loss of ice in a region that is on average not wamer in the latter part of 60 years (1941 - 2000) seems like a good reminder that it does not take a constant yeaer on year increase to cause pronounced natural response over large areas.

Sampling areas were split according to their ice cover: North - West (less sea ice cover), South - East (larger amplitude in sea ice extent) and North - East / South - West (NESW) as bears from that zone are more mobile among all regions of Svalbard.

OSLO / WASHINGTON Winter sea ice on the Arctic Ocean covered the second smallest area on record this year, part of a thaw that is opening the region to shipping and oil exploration and may be disrupting weather far to the south, scientists said on Friday.