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Impact of a Reduced Arctic Sea Ice Cover on Ocean and Atmospheric Properties — Sedlacek et al (2011) doi: 10.1175 / 2011JCLI3904.1

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.

For example, satellite data provides estimates of the sea ice cover on the Arctic Ocean as well as weather patterns over the Arctic.

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.

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.

Koch, F., Wiens, D., Euler, G., Nyblade, A., Anandakrishnan, S., Huerta, A., Wilson, T., Aster, R., Tracking the Effect of Sea Ice Cover on Microseismic Noise Using Two Seismic Arrays in Antarctica, Seismol.

Koch, F., Wiens, D., Euler, G., Aster, R., Nyblade, A., Anandakrishnan, S., Huerta, A., Wilson, T., Tracking the effect of sea ice cover on microseismic noise using two seismic arrays in Antarctica, Eos Trans.

Koch, F., Wiens, D., Euler, G., Wilson, T., Nyblade, A., Aster, R., Huerta, A., Anandakrishnan, S., 2012, Tracking the Effect of Sea Ice Cover on Microseismic Noise Using Two Seismic Arrays in Antarctica, Proc.

This image shows a visualization of Arctic sea ice cover on Sept. 12, 2013, with a yellow line showing the 30 - year average minimum extent.

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.

Not exact matches

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's Arctic sea ice cover currently is the sixth - lowest on modern record, a ranking that raises ongoing concerns about the speed of ice melt and the effects of ice loss on global weather patterns, geopolitical fights, indigenous peoples and wildlife, scientists said yesterday.

Capt. Roald Amundsen, the discoverer of the Northwest Passage, left Norway in June, 1910, in the «Fram,» seemingly with the intention of sailing around Cape Horn, however, he sailed to the westward across the South Pacific, and made a landing at whale Bay on the ice sheet covering Ross Sea.

Willerslev thinks the Western Stemmed projectiles were made by the first migrants into America, who came in by sea on the west coast while the continental interior was still covered in ice.

This marks the first time that Norwegian and Chinese researchers have collaborated on a project to study Arctic sea ice and snow cover.

«Polar regions have been changing very rapidly, providing data for our projections on sea ice, snow cover, ice sheets and sea level rise,» says David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK, the lead author of the cryosphere chapter.

In addition to the thickness of the snow cover on top of the sea ice, the buoys also measure the air temperature and air pressure.

«Based on our findings, it appears that future Arctic warming and reduced sea - ice cover could have a strong effect on tropical rainfall,» says James Collins.

«Historically, the Arctic had a thicker, more rigid sea ice that covered more of the Arctic basin, so it was difficult to tell whether El Niño had any effect on it,» said Richard Cullather, a climate modeler at Goddard.

Arctic sea ice cover, made of frozen seawater that floats on top of the ocean, helps regulate the planet's temperature by reflecting solar energy back to space.

«We expressed a need for something that could provide more immediate and local observation that could be launched easily and cover enough distance to conduct reconnaissance on potential routes through drifting sea ice,» says Cyrus Unvala, a lieutenant, junior grade, who served as public affairs officer onboard the Polar Star.

Sea ice and snow cover loss create a feedback look that can accelerate global warming; with fewer reflective surfaces on the planet, more sunlight can thereby be absorbed, driving surface temperatures even higher, the scientists explained.

«Because these plants are photosynthetic, it's not surprising to find that as the amount of sea ice cover declined, the amount of [photosynthesis] increased,» says biological oceanographer Kevin Arrigo of Stanford University's School of Earth Sciences, who led an effort to use the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) devices on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites to determine changes in phytoplankton growth.

This year's maximum was likely reached on March 7, the NSIDC said Wednesday, when sea ice covered 5.57 million square miles, the lowest in 38 years of satellite records.

Earlier this month — on 17 March — the extent of Arctic sea ice peaked at nearly 15 million square kilometers, covering an area roughly twice the size of Australia.

As a result of atmospheric patterns that both warmed the air and reduced cloud cover as well as increased residual heat in newly exposed ocean waters, such melting helped open the fabled Northwest Passage for the first time [see photo] this summer and presaged tough times for polar bears and other Arctic animals that rely on sea ice to survive, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The study marks the first time that human influence on the climate has been demonstrated in the water cycle, and outside the bounds of typical physical responses such as warming deep ocean and sea surface temperatures or diminishing sea ice and snow cover extent.

The ice coverage on the Arctic Ocean shriveled last September to 1.32 million square miles, the smallest expanse ever recorded and less than half the area covered by sea ice three decades ago.

One of the last major unexplored geological features on Earth, the ridge has slowly lost the ice sheet covering it thanks to global warming, opening the sea to exploration — and offshore mining and drilling.

The knock - on effects of such a transition would be huge — they would cause marked increase of warming at the pole, since open water absorbs more of the sun's energy than ice - covered seas.

In particular, they suspect that they may see a thicker snow cover on the Eurasian sea ice, but they will not be able to confirm it until IceBridge flies over.

a) Satellite image showing fast disintegration of sea ice over a polar continental shelf; b) Zoobenthos on an Antarctic continental shelf; c) Examples of sea mosses (specimens on the left are from an open - water location and hence have had more plankton to feed on); and d) Dead bryozoan and other benthic skeletons covering the seabed, most likely to be buried, sequestering their blue carbon in the seabed.

According to an analysis by the National Snow and Ice Data Center based on data from NOAA and NASA, sea ice cover was below average for most regions of the Arctic with near - average sea ice cover for part of the Laptev SIce Data Center based on data from NOAA and NASA, sea ice cover was below average for most regions of the Arctic with near - average sea ice cover for part of the Laptev Ssea ice cover was below average for most regions of the Arctic with near - average sea ice cover for part of the Laptev Sice cover was below average for most regions of the Arctic with near - average sea ice cover for part of the Laptev Ssea ice cover for part of the Laptev Sice cover for part of the Laptev SeaSea.

According to the latest Piomas data, a combination of the smallest sea ice extent and the second - thinnest ice cover on record puts total volume of sea ice in November 2016 at a record low for this time of year.

My research has a particular focus on primary producers in the Arctic marine ice - covered ecosystem, which include sea ice algae, ice melt water (brackish) flora and phytoplankton.

According to an analysis by the National Snow and Ice Data Center based on data from NOAA and NASA, sea ice cover was below average in the Kara, Barents, and Beaufort SeIce Data Center based on data from NOAA and NASA, sea ice cover was below average in the Kara, Barents, and Beaufort Seice cover was below average in the Kara, Barents, and Beaufort Seas.

Research Climate warming and the rapidly disappearing Arctic sea ice cover have imposed new variability and likely directional change on the Arctic marine ecosystem.

While it is often occurring in remote regions, ongoing change with the cryosphere has impacts on people all around the world: sea level rise affects coastlines globally, billions of people rely on water from snowpack, and the diminishing sea ice that covers the Arctic Ocean plays a significant role in Earth's climate and weather patterns.

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On the upper deck there is large partially covered area for enjoying a morning sea breeze or an ice cold beer in the evening.

Sea ice in the Arctic, on which arctic animals hunt, rest, and reproduce, now covers 15 % less area than it did in 1978; it has thinned to an average of 1.8 meters, compared to 3.1 meters in the 1950s.

Sea ice variability occurs near the Pole, which is too far north to have a direct impact on these waves but it could have an indirect impact on another phenomenon, such as snow cover or a regional atmospheric patter (which could then impact the winter AO).

The National Snow and Ice Data Center has posted on what it calls «a most interesting Arctic summer,» and that is certainly the case, given this week's powerful and rare summer storm, which is churning the Arctic Ocean's already thin and reduced sea ice covIce Data Center has posted on what it calls «a most interesting Arctic summer,» and that is certainly the case, given this week's powerful and rare summer storm, which is churning the Arctic Ocean's already thin and reduced sea ice covice cover.

«The intent is not to issue predictions, but rather to summarize all available information from ongoing observing and modeling efforts to provide the scientific community, stakeholders, and the public the best available information on the evolution of the arctic sea ice cover,» said the coordinators in a statement.

Second, we're interested in the effects of the storm on the Arctic sea ice cover.

Regarding the recent topics on DOT Earth about the Arctic sea ice cover and climate: Andy Revkin thought many people might be interested in following some of what is going on up north in a near real time.

The effects of this storm on the ice cover therefore will be limited to redistributing the sea ice by blowing it around.

In an e-mail message Wednesday, Sean R. Helfrich, a scientist at the ice center, said that ponds of meltwater pooling on sea ice could fool certain satellite - borne instruments into interpreting ice as open water, «suggesting areas that have substantial ice cover as being sea - ice free.»

People living around the fjord of Dyrafjordur, which last week was almost filled with the ice, were keeping an eye on the sea, conscious that the bears live on the pack ice that covers much of the Arctic ocean.

In both cases we're talking about seasonal sea ice floating in a thin layer on the sea, next to cold and ice - covered land.