Sentences with phrase «sea ice breakup»

Regehr, E. V., N. J. Lunn, S. C. Amstrup, and I. Stirling, 2007: Effects of earlier sea ice breakup on survival and population size of polar bears in western Hudson Bay.

Rapid sea ice breakup along the Ronne - Filchner Ice Shelf.

Relative to recent years and potential impacts on polar bear health and survival in Canada, there is nothing alarming in the pattern or speed of sea ice breakup for 2017, either over Hudson Bay, the southern Beaufort, or the eastern high Arctic.

Unlike 2007, which had a strong unusual wind pattern during all the summer months that contributed to major sea ice loss, summer 2012 meteorology was generally unremarkable, except for a strong storm in early August that contributed to sea ice breakup.

All of which indicates 2017 won't be an early sea ice breakup year for WHB polar bears.

Not exact matches

Scientists still do not know what triggers the breakup of an ice shelf or when future ones will occur, so they struggle to estimate how quickly glaciers will dump their ice into the ocean and therefore how much sea level will rise.

The region is getting stormier, which threatens settlements, aids ocean mixing that funnels nutrients to deeper waters, and could speed the breakup of sea ice.

The breakup and melting of floating ice has no direct effect on global sea levels.

«There are suggestions in the literature that accelerated breakup of ice shelves will lead to rise of sea level by several meters by the end of the century,» Godin said.

The consequences of global sea level rise could be even scarier than the worst - case scenarios predicted by the dominant climate models, which don't fully account for the fast breakup of ice sheets and glaciers, NASA scientists said today (Aug. 26) at a press briefing.

Sea ice extent has dropped precipitously as has the amount of old ice, which is less prone to breakup.

Since IPCC (2001) the cryosphere has undergone significant changes, such as the substantial retreat of arctic sea ice, especially in summer; the continued shrinking of mountain glaciers; the decrease in the extent of snow cover and seasonally frozen ground, particularly in spring; the earlier breakup of river and lake ice; and widespread thinning of antarctic ice shelves along the Amundsen Sea coast, indicating increased basal melting due to increased ocean heat fluxes in the cavities below the ice shelvsea ice, especially in summer; the continued shrinking of mountain glaciers; the decrease in the extent of snow cover and seasonally frozen ground, particularly in spring; the earlier breakup of river and lake ice; and widespread thinning of antarctic ice shelves along the Amundsen Sea coast, indicating increased basal melting due to increased ocean heat fluxes in the cavities below the ice shelvSea coast, indicating increased basal melting due to increased ocean heat fluxes in the cavities below the ice shelves.

While the breakup and slipping of ice sheets is a small part of sea rise now, he wrote last year, it could easily accelerate under the heating from a «business as usual» path for emissions.

I wonder once the front has retreated from salt water and sea mist that ultracold deep ice could refreeze fresh water and slow the breakup.

«in Western Hudson Bay, the decline in population size, condition, and survival of young as a consequence of earlier breakup of the sea ice brought about by climate warming have all been well documented (Stirling et al., 1999; Gagnon and Gough, 2005; Regehr et al., 2005; I. Stirling and N.J. Lunn, unpub.»

I believe that what the phrase is trying to get at is either the acceleration relative to the pause in the 1950 - 1970 period, or the acceleration in accumulation of noticeable consequences — worldwide glacier melt, sea ice retreat, earlier onset of springtime, (possibly) increasingly intense hurricanes, Larsen - B breakup, melting of Greenland along the margins, etc..

# 146: my understanding is that ice shelf breakup does contribute to eustatic sea - level rise, as you say, but only a little, and less so for larger ice shelves (the anchoring is more distant).

Small changes in global sea level or a rise in ocean temperatures could cause a breakup of the two buttressing ice shelves.

There has been discussion of the role of an August storm in 2012; the storm contributed to breakup of the sea ice and perhaps enhanced sea ice decay.

The findings indicate that ice shelf breakup may rapidly lead to sea level rise.

A run of bad news from the climate scientists might convince a government that the breakup of the Greenland ice sheet was accelerating, and that Earth's low - lying areas were facing an imminent rise of 3 feet or more in sea level.

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In 1992 when breakup of sea ice was delayed by 25 days, the body condition of all ringed seals declined.

While the iceberg isn't hugely concerning, it could herald the breakup of the entire Larsen C ice shelf, which could trigger more sea - level rise.

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The high temperatures also helped fuel wildfires and hastened the breakup of sea ice in the Chukchi Sea.&raqsea ice in the Chukchi Sea.&raqSea.»

«Satellite photos from mid-May depict an early sea - ice breakup with an ominous series of openings, known as leads, extending deep into the Arctic,» said a statement from NOAA.

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IMO, the strongest argument for sea ice decline over the last decade for being unusual and at least in part attributable to global warming is this (from Polyakov et al.): The severity of present ice loss can be highlighted by the breakup of ice shelves at the northern coast of Ellesmere Island, which have been stable until recently for at least several thousand years based on geological data.