Sentences with phrase «sea ice drifting around»

When the extent of the pack of sea ice drifting around the North Pole hit a remarkable low in 2007 (animation below), the resulting, and persistent, front - page thought was that the system was in a «death spiral» far more dramatic than any climate model had foreseen.

The video report I posted above is drawn from footage I shot five years ago, when I was lucky enough to land with an intrepid crew of scientists on the drifting, cracking, huffing, chugging sea ice drifting around the North Pole.

Not exact matches

You can experience 41 days of conditions around the North Pole in 44 seconds, thanks to the web cams left behind by an international research team (funded by the National Science Foundation) that annually ventures northward to install and retrieve instruments on and under the drifting sea ice at the top of the world.

Leading ice experts in Europe and the United States for the first time have agreed that a ring of navigable waters has opened all around the fringes of the cap of sea ice drifting on the warming Arctic Ocean.

These result in westerly winds (clockwise around the pole as viewed from below) just above the edge of Antarctica in the region where the seasonal sea ice forms, ie, the west wind drift:

Given that calving Patagonia glaciers were far more sensitive to climate fluctuations than western Antarctica, and given the likelihood that paleo sea - ice extent around Antarctica deflected iceberg drift from present pathways, it would be helpful to know how they confirmed the respective continental sources of any dated sediments.

Thickness surveys and drifting buoys that are part of the Arctic Observing Network (AON) suggest that much of the growth of first - year sea ice in the Pacific sector approaches an end - of - season thickness of around 1.7 m, independent of the starting time of freeze - up in the fall (H. Eicken, personal communication).

Cumulative ice motions for April — July 2008 derived from drift buoys indicate the overall transport of ice out of the Beaufort Sea around the Beaufort Gyre to the central Arctic was actually much stronger than in 2007, but it appears to be converging (motion is slowing) over the Amundsen and Nansen Basins.