Sentences with phrase «sea ice drifting so»
Why is sea ice drifting so much more rapidly today than before?
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Complications involving the drift arctic sea ice — precisely the sort of complications that makes such an operation so treacherous in the first place, and so opposed by environmentalists and local residents — forced the operation to cease mere hours after it had gotten underway.
To summarise the arguments presented so far concerning ice - loss in the arctic basin, at least four mechanisms must be recognised: (i) a momentum - induced slowing of winter ice formation, (ii) upward heat - flux from anomalously warm Atlantic water through the surface low ‐ salinity layer below the ice, (iii) wind patterns that cause the export of anomalous amounts of drift ice through the Fram Straits and disperse pack - ice in the western basin and (iv) the anomalous flux of warm Bering Sea water into the eastern Arctic of the mid 1990s.
A member of a team of Cambridge scientists trying to find out why Arctic sea ice is melting so fast, walks on some drift ice 500 miles (800 km) from the North Pole September 3, 2011.
• Winter storms caused the sea ice to drift so fast that it increased mixing of the water beneath the ice.