Sentences with phrase «sea ice around»

That is particularly striking, he added, because it's what we're observing right now: an increase in cold surface waters around Antarctica and Greenland, as well as increases in sea ice around some parts of Antarctica.

In examining the ultimate transdisciplinary issue, humanity's evolving two - way relationship with the climate, I've had the rare privilege of studying the whole picture, from the climate models running on supercomputers in Boulder in 1985 to the burning rain forests of the western Amazon in 1989 to the shifting sea ice around the North Pole in 2003 to the contentious climate treaty talks in one city after another.

Sea ice in the Arctic is governed by somewhat different processes than the sea ice around Antarctica, and the very different geography of the two poles plays a large role.

Increased surface melting, loss of ice shelves, and reduction of summer and autumn sea ice around the Antarctic and Greenland continents during the warmest interglacials would have a year - round effect on temperature, because the increased area of open water has its largest impact on surface air temperature in the cool seasons.

«The spreading sheet of sea ice around Antarctica could be viewed as a napkin being draped over a monstrous water pistol.»

By late winter (August - September), the typical extent of sea ice around Antarctica is about 19 106 km2, i.e. more than twice the area of Australia, and more than the area of Arctic sea ice.

Scientists mystified by a sudden fall in sea ice around Antarctica, but said there was no evidence it was related to global warming

Every year, sea ice around it comes (in winter) and goes (in summer), and over time tends to average out.

Two studies in the current edition of the journal «Nature» show that global warming is already posing a threat to a variety of plants and animals, and other research suggests that the sea ice around the Earth's poles could melt entirely by the end of this century.

If the sea ice around Antarctica is growing (on a decadal trend basis)-- which any schoolboy analysis of freely available basic data shows...... what does this tell you about the certainty of global warming?

But the influence of the release of heat - trapping gases is much less clear with sea ice around the South Pole.

He was the first Times reporter to file stories and photos from the sea ice around the North Pole.

But deep water production by convection may be less, depending on how much NADW is Arctic in origin and how much is simply recirculated Antarctic bottom water (extremely dense water, formed as brine under the sea ice around polynas offshore of Antarctica and sliding down the continental shelf into the depths without much mixing, creates a giant pool of dense water extending all the way up the bottom of the Atlantic to about 60 ° N).

Both sources reveal an unseasonable lack of solid sea ice around Svalbard.

Photographs from the 2017 Operation IceBridge field campaign show the many forms of land and sea ice around the frozen (and melting) southern continent.

According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, the sea ice around Antarctica has set record lows each of the past two years.

Sometime before 2020 certainly, but based on the 5 year rebuilding time between 2007 and 2012, we might see a new lower low in Arctic sea ice around 2017, as the spiral continues down to an ice free condition this century.

«This year's maximum is a far cry from the 20.201 million square kilometres record maximum we had in 2014 and shows the highly variable nature of sea ice around the Antarctic continent,» Dr Turner said.

The last several years I have written a post on sea ice around the time of the Arctic sea ice minima

«We see an increase in the storminess of the Antarctic, and that's obviously redistributing the sea ice around» the continent differently, Dr Lieser said.

That suggests that there is a lot more sea ice around the perimeter of Antarctica than in the Arctic region, contrary to my expectations.

Stroeve says a couple of powerful cyclones that churned around the high Arctic last month moved sea ice around and complicated efforts to measure its extent.

«Also, since 1979, sea ice around Antarctica has gradually increased, not decreased, which climate models have not been able to explain.»

''... qualitatively consistent with the counterintuitive prediction of a global atmospheric - ocean model of increasing sea ice around Antarctica with climate warming due to the stabilizing effects of increased snowfall on the Southern Ocean.»

However, it is clear that the extent of sea ice around the coast of the continent is growing.

Experts with the National Snow and Ice Data Center say formation of sea ice around the Arctic Ocean probably petered out about two weeks ago.

Paul Holland of the British Antarctic Survey calls the freshwater concept «plausible» but thinks there are also plausible alternative explanations for the increase in sea ice around Antarctica, among them changes in the wind patterns that might deliver blasts of colder air to the surrounding seas.

... does anyone know what the extent of sea ice around the North Pole is after the recent cold spell around the Northern Hemisphere?

And there are fresh findings on why the sea ice around the North Pole has seen dramatic summer retreats lately.

In fact, as I proposed in my overview of ice trends last October, the system up there may be becoming more like the sea ice around Antarctica, which flashes into existence each austral winter and then all disappears each southern summer.

The continuing warming and summertime retreats of sea ice around the North Pole are making life difficult for seal - hunting polar bears, eroding Inuit coastal villages and now, evidently, eroding Arctic defenses (although not weakening them, the Pentagon insists).

The study also noted a 10 percent rise in the area of sea ice around the continent since 1980, which the authors said appears related to changes in winds ascribed to the depletion of the ozone layer there.

SUMMARY: Climate scientist Paul Beckwith will tell us why sea ice around the world is in retreat, and what it means for our weather.

It is one of the reasons ascribed to the increasing trend in sea ice around Antarctica.

In examining the ultimate transdisciplinary issue, humanity's evolving two - way relationship with the climate, I've had the rare privilege of studying the whole picture, from the climate models running on supercomputers in Boulder in 1985 to the burning rain forests of the western Amazon in 1989 to the shifting sea ice around the North Pole in 2003 to the contentious climate treaty talks in one city after another.

The winter sea ice around Antarctica has grown slightly over the past few decades.

A: The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announced this week that the sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached its maximum extent — its widest halo around the continent — in 2014 on 22 September: more than 20 million square kilometers, which also set a record for the highest extent of sea ice around the continent since satellite measurements began in the late 1970s.

We have no idea how thick the sea ice around Antarctica is, for instance.

Risky robotic exploration of the vast expanse of sea ice around Antarctica has revealed it to be far thicker in many places than previously measured.

With improved technologies and a reduction in sea ice around Antarctica, Hemmings, Ainley and many other experts believe its fisheries will be further threatened without policy changes.

And on the opposite side of the planet, on March 3 sea ice around Antarctica hit its lowest extent ever recorded by satellites at the end of summer in the Southern Hemisphere, a surprising turn of events after decades of moderate sea ice expansion.

The ring of sea ice around the Antarctic continent behaves in a similar manner, with the calendar flipped: it usually reaches its maximum in September and its minimum in February.

King penguins are in fact picky animals: in order to form a colony where they can mate, lay eggs and rear chicks over a year, they need tolerable temperature all year round, no winter sea ice around the island, and smooth beach of sand or pebbles.

I mean even without that 7 million square miles of frozen sea ice around it, you could fit the United States in Antarctica very easily, including Alaska.

The image showed that the amount of sea ice around the poles is dramatically lower than scientists would have predicted.

In March 2017, sea ice around the North and South Poles reached record lows for that time of year.

Not exact matches

There's no getting around the fact that the loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet and the resulting sea level rise would be pretty devastating for humanity.

All of that has led scientists to see that the glaciers are losing almost 23 feet of ice each year and the specific glaciers studied all contribute to sea levels around the world into the Amudsen Ssea levels around the world into the Amudsen SeaSea.

The sea level around a melting ice cap will fall even as distant shores are inundated

«Ice loss from this part of West Antarctica is already making a significant contribution to sea - level rise — around 1 mm per decade, and is actually one of the largest uncertainties in global sea - level rise predictions.