Sentences with phrase «sea ice blocks»

The algae growth slows each winter when sea ice blocks sunlight, leaving behind layers similar to tree rings.

Last Friday afternoon, on a conference call hosted by the National Research Council to present a recent report on the Arctic region, Stephanie Pfirman, an environmental science professor at Barnard College, said Arctic ice coverage is shrinking and that thicker sea ice blocks, which anchor much of the landscape, are rapidly melting.

(Click here for a wider view of Antarctica and the sea ice blocking the path.)

Not exact matches

A frozen sea, surviving as blocks of pack ice, may lie just beneath the surface of Mars, suggest observations from Europe's Mars Express spacecraft.

The research team — which utilized 34,000 data records from 2010 and 2011 — concluded that melting sea ice is diluting seawater and reducing the concentrations of the carbonate minerals critical as building blocks for the shells of marine life.

By the end of August, the Northern Sea Route was open, with ice still blocking the Northwest Passage.

I forget the reality of having to practically hack my car out of an ice block on those «frosty mornings»; the threat of losing an eye in a sea of umbrella spokes on those «rainy cobbled streets» and that horrible, sweaty mess you turn into as the layers that protected you from the chill outside have to be peeled off everytime you go into an overcrowded, over-heated department store on the Christmas shopping run.

- Fish (salmon, cod, pufferfish, tropical fish)- Bucket of fish - Coral (coral, coral fans, coral blocks)- Kelp, Dried Kelp, Kelp Block - Dolphins (follow boats, get a boost swimming next to them)- Icebergs - Blue Ice - Nine Ocean Biomes (frozen, deep frozen, cold, deep cold, lukewarm, deep lukewarm, normal, deep normal, warm)- Underwater Ravines & caves - Sea grass - Sea pickle (w / illumination!

When you have the largest Atlantic storm in recorded history that is being feed by unusually warm ocean waters (+5 °F) and is being steered in a very unusual direction by a «3 - sigma» blocking higher over Greenland after the largest Arctic sea ice melt in human history, you might want to consider the «steroid» hypothesis a bit more.

During Greenland summers, melting Arctic sea ice favors stronger and more frequent «blocking - high» pressure systems, which spin clockwise, stay largely in place and can block cold, dry Canadian air from reaching the island.

The paper uses evidence and modeling to explain how the sun - blocking impact from a 50 - year stretch of unusually intense eruptions of four tropical volcanoes caused sufficient cooling to produce a long - lasting shift in the generation and migration of Arctic Ocean sea ice, with substantial consequences for the Northern Hemisphere climate that lasted centuries and left a deep imprint on European history.

A recent article in Scientific American stated that once the sea ice breaks away the inland ice is no longer blocked on its way to the sea.

That meltdown may be the impetus for an accelerating doom as it opens up shipping lanes previously blocked by ice in the Arctic Sea.

For example, warm sea - water can cause «blocking» sea - ice shelves to collapse.

I think there is evidence that AGW has caused the decline in arctic sea ice, which may be responsible for the changes seen in the paths of the jet stream, which may be responsible for the blocking high over Greenland which was responsible for Sandy's left turn.

You say that there is evidence that AGW has caused the decline in arctic sea ice, which may be responsible for the changes seen in the paths of the jet stream, which may be responsible for the blocking high over Greenland which was responsible for Sandy's left turn.

Inside the Arctic the big factor is sea ice extent because that makes a huge difference by blocking radiative and evaporative cooling and not conducting particularly well either.

If that huge block of ice ever melted completely, sea levels would rise some 60 meters!

Lastly, even the record low Arctic ice levels may have influence over these types of storms by messing with the Jet Stream and blocking the storms from heading out to sea, instead shoving into the east coast.

Correction to the above: I should have said the ice in the Archipelago blocks cold Arctic sea water from leaving, thereby inhibiting the ingress of warmer southern water.

Rhetorically, I have asked before when the Straits of Magellan and Cape Horn will be blocked by Antarctic sea ice in September.

They generally form during the winter, blocking the transport of sea ice from the Lincoln Sea into Baffin Bsea ice from the Lincoln Sea into Baffin BSea into Baffin Bay.

On the other hand, the Northern Sea Route, a shortcut along the Eurasian coast that is often at least partially open, was completely blocked by a band of ice this year.

Cornell and Rutgers researchers report in the March issue of Oceanography that the severe loss of summertime Arctic sea ice - attributed to greenhouse warming - appears to enhance Northern Hemisphere jet stream meandering, intensify Arctic air mass invasions toward middle latitudes, and increase the frequency of atmospheric blocking events like the one that steered Hurricane Sandy west into the densely populated New York City area.

The study authors conclude that warming temperatures due to climate change are making it more difficult for ice arches to form every winter, preventing them from blocking the southward flow of sea ice.

«Being able to track and forecast the tracks of these huge blocks of ice will be a major benefit to the shipping industry, particularly as more ships begin to use polar waters, as Arctic sea ice melts.

I assume this lack of awareness was due to a lack of data on large sea ice loss seasons and lack of extreme events caused by blocking.

Strong winds blowing off the continent are pushing the giant floe away from its parent, the giant Pine Island Glacier, and the warming Southern Hemisphere's has melted the thick winter sea ice that held the block in place since July, said Grant Bigg, an ocean modeler at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.

Yes, it appears none of this sea ice causes blocking appeared until after the IPCC was complete.

In their paper «Exploring recent trends in Northern Hemisphere blocking,» Barnes and colleagues used various meteorological definitions of «blocking» along with various datasets of atmospheric conditions to assess whether or not there have been any trends in the frequency of blocking events that could be tied to changes in global warming and / or the declines in Arctic sea ice.

The new study, along with other previously published research, showed that the decline in sea ice and snow cover has slowed the west - to - easterly component of the jet stream, thereby enhancing the north - to - south waviness of the jet, which leads to the creation of more stagnant or «blocked» weather patterns.

«And we have a theory relating Arctic sea ice loss to blocking systems of the kind that steered Hurricane Sandy into the coast.»

There is credible peer - reviewed scientific work by leading climate scientists, published more than a decade ago, that hypothesized that precisely this sort of blocking pattern would become more frequent with disappearing Arctic sea ice.

So it seems quite clear that there is a potential connection, in a statistical sense, between human - caused global warming, declining Arctic sea ice, and the anomalous blocking pattern this winter that has added to other factors we know are tied to human - caused climate change (warmer temperatures and increased soil evaporation, and decreased winter snowpack and freshwater runoff) to produce the unprecedented drought this year in California.

Like corks in a bottle, the two glaciers block ice flow and keep nearly 10 % of the ice sheet from draining into the sea.

Well obviously I meant using the blocks of sea ice to hold back the dirty, despicable, awful Antarctic land ice.

In the near term, the ice island could block the southward flux of sea ice through Nares Strait.

Observed blocking trends are diagnosed to test the hypothesis that recent Arctic warming and sea ice loss has increased the likelihood of blocking over the Northern Hemisphere.