Sentences with phrase «sea ice conditions near»

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GOING, GOING... Warmer conditions in the Arctic are melting sea ice (as seen here near Barrow, Alaska).

The islands bordering the Scotia Sea are rocky and partly covered in ice and snow year round; despite these harsh conditions, however, the islands do support vegetation and have been described as the Scotia Sea Islands tundra ecoregion, which includes South Georgia, the volcanic South Sandwich Islands, and the South Orkneys in the Scotia Sea, as well as the remote South Shetland Islands near the Antarctic Peninsula and the small isolated volcano called Bouvet Island.

But before you read on, have a quick look at this short time - lapse video of sea ice and weather conditions in the central Arctic Ocean from early July through August 8, recorded by one of the two autonomous cameras set on the sea ice near the North Pole each spring by a research team from the University of Washington (the same folks I accompanied in 2003).

The following video gives you a fascinating view of one patch of sea ice through 90 days, provided by a webcam left behind by researchers who annually set up camp near the North Pole to check ocean and ice conditions up close.

Having stood on the shifting sea ice near the North Pole once, I do feel the desire to be bipolar and go to Antarctic waters someday, despite conditions that will always make trips there adventure travel in the purest sense of that word.

For several years, Rhett Herman, a physics professor at Radford University, has been leading students on an expedition each spring break to study the condition of the sea ice off the coast near Barrow, Alaska.

The animated sea - ice imagery above — from one of two autonomous cameras set on ice near the North Pole each spring — gives a close - focus view of the slushy conditions that develop on the shifting ice when the summer sun is at its peak.

Simultaneously, the same measurements were taken colleagues near Barrow, Alaska, where the conditions are first - year sea ice with thin snow cover.

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Sea ice, and the cold conditions it sustains, serves to stabilize methane deposits on and near the shoreline, [40] preventing the clathrate breaking down and outgassing methane into the atmosphere, causing further warming.

If they do so by simulating near - average conditions most of the time, they are getting the right answer for the wrong reason, and their predictions of future sea ice decline should be discounted.

The near absence of planktic foraminifers in the MIS 6 sediments of these cores (Supplementary Figs. 2 and 3) 56 also supports the interpretation of virtually no surface water productivity due to closed sea ice conditions.

Is 2009 simply part of such an extended pause, as it will take another near - perfect synchrony of summer weather conditions to provide another major drop in sea ice extent (Overland)?

While the value for 2009 is near the trend line (see Stern), arctic sea ice internal conditions are considerably different from 2005.

Then things took a turn for the worse, and sea ice was at record or near - record low conditions for most of the summer.

Using a model that tracked a range of habitat conditions, including water temperature and depth from sea ice, to predict which habitats would be most impacted by climate change, William Cheung, the study's lead author, and his colleagues found that around 50 species of commercial fishes living near or at the poles will go extinct within the next 4 decades.

Near - real - time data do not receive the rigorous quality control that final sea ice products enjoy, but it allows us to monitor ice conditions as they develop.

Current sea ice extent and meteorological conditions suggest a record low is unlikely, as surface temperature over the central Arctic has been near normal in the last two months and forecasts of atmospheric temperatures for the next few weeks indicate average surface temperatures.