Sentences with phrase «sea ice cover»

Several years had low sea ice cover in the past decade, yet most of those years were warm at middle latitude winters by 1951 - 1980 standards.

Reduced summer sea ice cover allows for greater warming of the upper ocean but atmospheric warming is modest.

Scientists have used satellite data to measure sea ice cover for 35 years.

Less sea ice cover and a shorter ice season allows wind and wave action to attack the previously ice - protected coastline, especially during the autumn storm season.

The top plot is the seasonal averages through 2009 plus the yearly average, and the bottom plot is average winter sea ice cover through 2010.

This would cause the equator to warm and the poles to cool, increasing sea ice cover.

Along with other indicators like global average temperature and sea level rise, the record - setting sea ice cover is a key example of how much climate change is affecting the planet.

Bottom line is that current and historical sea ice cover is sensitive to changes in the radiation balance.

Summer sea ice continues to decline — the 2009 - 2010 summer sea ice cover extent was the third lowest since satellite monitoring began in 1979, and sea ice thickness continues to thin.

The extent of sea ice cover in Arctic was much less than it is today between four and five million years ago.

Previously, Kelly was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate at the University of Washington and the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada where she studied the role of the changing Arctic sea ice cover on global circulation, weather, and climate using a hierarchy of numerical global climate models.

Current observations of Antarctic sea ice cover etc. are in accord with current models: IPCC (2007b), pp. 616 - 17, see also Zhang (2007) for sea ice.

Impact of sea ice cover changes on the Northern Hemisphere atmospheric winter circulation — Jaiser et al (2012) doi: 10.3402 / tellusa.v64i0.11595

Arctic sea ice cover as of Wednesday reflects had already begun to slowly recede two weeks after it had reached its maximum extent for the winter of 2016 - 17 on March 7, when it reached 5.57 million square miles (14.42 million square kilometers).

Arctic warming has caused a rapid decline in sea ice cover during the past decade that could seriously affect everything from Arctic ecosystems to shipping and oil drilling.

The eastern Barents Sea (located in Russian territory), as defined by the Polar Bear Specialist Group (see map below), provides ample habitat for polar bears to thrive despite extended fluctuations in seasonal sea ice cover in the western portion.

A central topic will be teleconnections in the climate system, i.e. how a change in climate in one part of the globe (e.g. temperatures in the Atlantic or shrinking sea ice cover in the Arctic) can influence climate on other parts of the globe (e.g. Eurasian winter temperatures), and how we can use this information to improve regional climate prediction and therefore regional climate service.

Scientists embarked on a 6 - month expedition in the Arctic Ocean to study the thinning sea ice cover, improve our understanding of sea ice loss effects, and help predict future changes.

«This highly unusual state of the atmosphere has been linked to record low sea ice cover during summer over the Arctic Ocean.

Models can help scientists understand what effects higher temperatures will have, for instance, or whether declining sea ice cover on the Arctic Ocean will add to climate change.

Beluga whales that spend summers feeding in the Arctic are diving deeper and longer to find food than in earlier years, when sea ice covered more of the ocean for longer periods, according to a new analysis led by University of Washington researchers.

Polar bears had more sea ice cover and better hunting this year in Hudson's Bay than in other recent years.

Stay tuned: weather over the next few weeks will determine whether Arctic sea ice cover reaches record lows.

«Reduced sea ice cover over a longer period of time over the summer could mean improved foraging for belugas,» said Hauser, who is also a researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Furthermore, we must understand how changes in sea ice cover affect the feeding ecology of humpback whales and their competitors in the short - term and the dynamics of krill populations over the longer term, particularly given the increasing pressure from commercial krill harvests [36].

Arctic sea ice cover grows each winter as the sun sets for several months, and shrinks each summer as the sun rises higher in the northern sky.

Total sea ice cover on the Arctic Ocean peaked on March 7, satellite observations show, reaching a total area of 14.42 million square kilometers.

Global sea ice cover reached a record low, and mountain glaciers and the huge ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are on a trajectory of accelerating mass loss.

According to Seager et al. (2002) THC appears to account for the North America vs. Europe winter temperature difference only in the highest latitudes, north of about 60 degrees N, due to the fact that the heat transport limits sea ice cover there.

Sea ice cover melted at a relatively slow rate in June, the month when the Arctic receives the most solar energy.

Researchers have previously suggested that extreme weather in the midlatitudes might be linked to climate change's impacts on the Arctic (SN Online: 12/2/11), particularly the dramatically decreased sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean.

This year, the Arctic sea ice cover experienced relatively slow rates of melt in June, which is the month the Arctic receives the most solar energy.

If the heat transport by the Atlantic thermohaline circulation suddenly increases for some reason (we'll come to that), Greenland suddenly gets warm (an effect amplified by receding sea ice cover of the seas near Greenland) and Antarctica starts to cool.