Sentences with phrase «sea ice coverage from»

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The data to assess sea - ice coverage come from polar - orbiting satellites carrying passive - microwave sensors that can see through clouds.

At summer's end, sea - ice coverage was one - third smaller than the average from 1979 to 2000.

This positive climate feedback is greater than expected from the additional forcing alone, due to amplification by reduced surface albedo through melting of continental snow and decreased sea - ice coverage, especially in the wintertime.

During the so - called Holocene Climate Optimum, from approximately 8000 to 5000 years ago, when the temperatures were somewhat warmer than today, there was significantly less sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, probably less than 50 % of the summer 2007 coverage, which is absolutely lowest on record.

Analysis of observed declines in sea ice and snow coverage from 1979 to 2008 suggests that the NH albedo feedback is between 0.3 and 1.1 W m — 2 °C — 1 (Flanner et al., 2011).

Cloud coverage is the biggest player in this case, without will make a great melt, or if not, totally save sea ice extent from collapsing further.

Drawing on Hadley Centre Sea Ice and Sea Temperature data from 1953 to 1978 and the National Snow and Ice Data Center's Sea Ice Index from 1979 to 2015, the researchers computed 30 - year running averages of September sea ice coverage — that is, they computed averages for the years 1953 — 83, 1954 — 84, 1955 — 85, and so Sea Ice and Sea Temperature data from 1953 to 1978 and the National Snow and Ice Data Center's Sea Ice Index from 1979 to 2015, the researchers computed 30 - year running averages of September sea ice coverage — that is, they computed averages for the years 1953 — 83, 1954 — 84, 1955 — 85, and so Ice and Sea Temperature data from 1953 to 1978 and the National Snow and Ice Data Center's Sea Ice Index from 1979 to 2015, the researchers computed 30 - year running averages of September sea ice coverage — that is, they computed averages for the years 1953 — 83, 1954 — 84, 1955 — 85, and so Sea Temperature data from 1953 to 1978 and the National Snow and Ice Data Center's Sea Ice Index from 1979 to 2015, the researchers computed 30 - year running averages of September sea ice coverage — that is, they computed averages for the years 1953 — 83, 1954 — 84, 1955 — 85, and so Ice Data Center's Sea Ice Index from 1979 to 2015, the researchers computed 30 - year running averages of September sea ice coverage — that is, they computed averages for the years 1953 — 83, 1954 — 84, 1955 — 85, and so Sea Ice Index from 1979 to 2015, the researchers computed 30 - year running averages of September sea ice coverage — that is, they computed averages for the years 1953 — 83, 1954 — 84, 1955 — 85, and so Ice Index from 1979 to 2015, the researchers computed 30 - year running averages of September sea ice coverage — that is, they computed averages for the years 1953 — 83, 1954 — 84, 1955 — 85, and so sea ice coverage — that is, they computed averages for the years 1953 — 83, 1954 — 84, 1955 — 85, and so ice coverage — that is, they computed averages for the years 1953 — 83, 1954 — 84, 1955 — 85, and so on.

The sea ice off Iceland reveals an extraordinary growth in severity, from zero coverage before the year 1200 to eight - week average cover in the 13th century, rising to 40 weeks in the 19th century, and dropping again to eight weeks in the 20th century.

Sea ice coverage in the fjord ranges from thicker, white ice seen in the background, to thinner grease ice and leads showing open ocean water in the foreground.

If you'll recall from my previous post, polar bears seem to have barely survived the extensive sea ice coverage during the Last Glacial Maximum — in other words, too much ice (even over the short term) is their biggest threat.

Antarctic sea ice coverage is slightly above average and the growth varies from one part of Antarctica to another.

BBC News reports that data from Europe's Cryosat spacecraft shows that Arctic sea ice coverage was nearly 9,000 cubic kilometers (2,100 cubic miles) by the end of this year's melting season, up from about 6,000 cubic kilometers (1,400 cubic miles) during the same time last year.

To make use of that potential we would need good estimates of sea ice thickness, such as might be obtained from ICESat or CryoSat (i.e., complete spatial coverage).

The SH sea ice data are reliable since 1979, but suffer from poor observational coverage before 1979, and revert to climatology before 1974.

The separation in REA16 of the effect of masking from that of sea ice changes on blending air and water temperature changes is somewhat artificial, since HadCRUT4 has limited coverage in areas where sea ice occurs.

Also, take a lesson from the last glacial about the power of a few degrees temperature change on ice coverage, sea levels, etc..

That might have changed this week with the coverage of announcement of «Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms: Evidence from Paleoclimate Data, Climate Modeling, and Modern Observations that 2 °C Global Warming is Highly Dangerous» by James Hansen and 16 other eminent scientists.