Sentences with phrase «sea ice albedo»

The study also determined what factors had the greatest impact on the decline in sea ice albedo.

After each tipping point (loss of sea ice albedo or loss of carbon sinks) the situation accelerates.

The freshwater layer increases sea ice albedo and offsets or reverses the temperature change, but the sea level rises faster.

Melt ponds are critical for sea ice albedo and therefore modeling the loss of sea ice with global warming in global climate models.

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In the Arctic, one familiar feedback effect is sea ice albedo, which measures how well the Earth's surface reflects sunlight.

The differences in total climate feedback parameter between the Cess and coupled models arise primarily from differences in clear - sky feedbacks that are anticipated from the nature of the Cess experimental design (i.e., ignoring the polar amplification and sea ice albedo feedback).