Sentences with phrase «sea ice cover grows»

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.

Arctic sea ice cover grows each autumn and winter, and shrinks each spring and summer.

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.

Not exact matches

This study is the latest in a growing body of research that suggests dwindling sea ice and snow cover in the polar regions may be altering the weather over the continents of the Northern Hemisphere.

The area of sea ice covering the Arctic ocean even stopped growing and started shrinking in the Barents Sea for a brief period in Novembsea ice covering the Arctic ocean even stopped growing and started shrinking in the Barents Sea for a brief period in NovembSea for a brief period in November.

sea ice covering the Arctic ocean even stopped growing and started shrinking in the Barents Sea for a brief period in Novembsea ice covering the Arctic ocean even stopped growing and started shrinking in the Barents Sea for a brief period in NovembSea for a brief period in November.

This is perhaps the least newsworthy item for readers here, given how much The Times has covered the mix of issues arising as summer sea ice retreats in the Arctic and pressures grow to exploit new shipping routes and northern resources.

«Higher northern latitudes are getting warmer, Arctic sea ice and the duration of snow cover are diminishing, the growing season is getting longer and plants are growing more,» said Ranga Myneni of Boston University's Department of Earth and Environment.

A few feet thick, sea ice covers one million square miles of ocean in summer and grows to six million square miles in winter, doubling the size of the continent.

For example, ice cover in the Bellingshausen Sea has been decreasing while ice in the nearby Ross Sea is growing.

You can't fake spring coming earlier, or trees growing higher up on mountains, or glaciers retreating for kilometres up valleys, or shrinking ice cover in the Arctic, or birds changing their migration times, or permafrost melting in Alaska, or the tropics expanding, or ice shelves on the Antarctic peninsula breaking up, or peak river flow occurring earlier in summer because of earlier snowmelt, or sea level rising faster and faster, or any of the thousands of similar examples.

The winds within that ice zone keep the water extremely cold, enabling the sea ice cover to grow in recent years even as global temperatures have risen markedly.

At a time when the sea ice should be growing toward its maximum extent for the year, it's shrinking instead — the area of the Bering Sea covered by ice is now 60 percent below its average from 1981 - 20sea ice should be growing toward its maximum extent for the year, it's shrinking instead — the area of the Bering Sea covered by ice is now 60 percent below its average from 1981 - 20Sea covered by ice is now 60 percent below its average from 1981 - 2010.

As examples, a reduced and thinning ice cover will disadvantage polar bears, while sea otters will have new habitats; communities on new shipping routes will grow while those built on permafrost will have difficulties.

In contrast to Arctic sea ice, the sea ice cover that surrounds the Antarctic continent has actually grown slightly since the start of the satellite record.

How much it has grown is not stated in the paper: «Observational determination of albedo decrease caused by vanishing Arctic sea ice» http://eisenman.ucsd.edu/publications/Pistone-Eisenman-Ramanathan-2014.pdf but it seems very clear that Arctic sea - ice loss is in accelerating decline towards zero in the coming decades, meaning that this forcing will rise very substantially along with those from land - ice and snow cover decline.

It also illustrates that the two ice sheets play an important role in the total contribution to sea level at present, and that contribution is continuously and rapidly growing...» 4/2002 -2 / 2009 period covered for Greenland and Antarctica.

Ignoring the possible increase of «methane from permafrost» with warming for now, it appears that NSIDC data tell us a) that northern hemisphere snow cover has not shown any statistical change since the 1980s, b) that Arctic sea ice has shrunk since measurements started in 1979 and c) that Antarctic sea ice has grown gradually over this period.