Sentences with phrase «sea ice during»

Statistics Canada — Average area covered by total (all) sea ice during summer from 1968 to 2010 for sea ice regions of Arctic Domain — EnviroStats — See how clear the trends are in all of Canada's arctic regions: down, down, down at something like 7 or 8 percent a decade.

Satellite remote sensing has indicated that one possible mechanism leading to these events is sea - salt aerosol production from snow lying on sea ice during blowing snow events and subsequent bromine release («bromine explosions»).

For instance, one can colour the extent of the loss of Arctic sea ice during the last few decades, or the projected loss of shoreline if sea levels rise, or how many football fields of global forest we are losing every minute.

# 96 prokaryotes — Quoting from the article:» Anomalously low sea ice during summer exposes darker (i.e., low albedo) ocean water to sunlight, producing strong Arctic warming via direct radiative impacts and anomalous latent and sensible heat fluxes that persist into the winter months.

However, it is not clear that the Arctic was completely free of summertime sea ice during this time.

Satellite records show a constant downward trend in the area covered by Arctic sea ice during all seasons, but in particular in summer.

How convenient to blame «approaching» sea ice during a summer of such dramatic melt.

Arctic sea ice during September 2005 was the lowest on record and below the average for the fourth consecutive year.

Zhang, J., M. Steele, and R. Woodgate, The role of Pacific water in the dramatic retreat of arctic sea ice during summer 2007, J. Polar Science, 19 (2), 93 - 107, 2008.

There was also less sea ice during this time (1887 - 1945), as the sea ice cover disappeared 1.1 month sooner than it does today.

So, reduced sea ice during the sunnier summer months has a big impact on the Arctic's overall energy balance.

Arctic sea ice during the 2007 melt season plummeted to the lowest levels since satellite measurements began in 1979.

Zhang, J, R.W Lindsay, M. Steele and A. Schweiger, «What Drove the Dramatic Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice During Summer 2007?»

In fact, the sea ice gains in Antarctica have perhaps modestly superseded the losses in the Arctic, resulting in a very slight increasing overall trend in global - scale sea ice during the last 10 years:

The bright white central mass shows the perennial sea ice, which is just the multi-year ice that has survived at least one summer, while the larger light blue area shows the full extent of the winter sea ice including the average annual sea ice during the 2012 months of November, December and January.

If northern Siberia does not heat up, then the necessary depressions may not form in the northern part of the Urals and the coming melting season could look more like 2007 and 2012 with significant high pressure areas over the sea ice during summer months.

What the new data suggests, Werner said, is that the Arctic Ocean will likely be free of sea ice during summer in the next few decades, which may trigger significant changes in climate across the globe.

Stephanie M. Downes, Riccardo Farneti, Petteri Uotila, Stephen M. Griffies, Simon J. Marsland, et al. (2015) An assessment of Southern Ocean water masses and sea ice during 1988 - 2007 in a suite of interannual CORE - II simulations, 94, 67 - 94, Ocean Modelling, doi: 10.1016 / j.ocemod.2015.07.022,

In contrast, sea ice in 2008 (Fig. 4) has a slightly greater extent than 2007 and not all first - year sea ice that formed in winter 2008 melted out during the summer, providing a basis for forming second - year sea ice during winter 2009 and beyond.

Onarheim, I. H., L. H. Smedsrud, R. B. Ingvaldsen, and F. Nilsen (2014), Loss of sea ice during winter north of Svalbard, Tellus, Ser.

This suggests that a so ‐ called tipping point, which would describe the sudden irreversible loss of Arctic summer sea ice during warming conditions, is unlikely to exist.»

It is important to understand that the maximum extent of sea ice during the winter is a less important climatic indicator than the minimum extent in summer.

Antarctic sea ice during December was 3.41 million square miles, according to analysis by the National Snow and Ice Data Center based on data from NOAA and NASA.

In addition to near - record temperatures, 2017 also saw record - low sea ice during parts of the year, both in the Arctic and Antarctic.

Clearly the extent of Arctic sea ice during 1938 - 43 was nowhere near as low as current levels, based on these data.

It at least suggests that the Arctic lost sea ice during that period as well — a loss that may have reversed during the 1945 - 1975 period:

Downes, S.M., R. Farneti, P. Uotila, S.M. Griffies, S.J. Marsland, D. Bailey, E. Behrens, M. Bentsen, D.H. Bi, A. Biastoch, C. Boning, A. Bozec, V.M. Canuto, E. Chassignet, G. Danabasoglu, S. Danilov, N. Diansky, H. Drange, P.G. Fogli, A. Gusev, A. Howard, M. Ilicak, T. Jung, M. Kelley, W.G. Large, A. Leboissetier, M. Long, J.H. Lu, S. Masina, A. Mishra, A. Navarra, A.J.G. Nurser, L. Patara, B.L. Samuels, D. Sidorenko, P. Spence, H. Tsujino, Q. Wang, and S.G. Yeager, 2015: An assessment of Southern Ocean water masses and sea ice during 1988 - 2007 in a suite of interannual CORE - II simulations.

Zhang, J., R. Lindsay, M. Steele, and A. Schweiger (2008), What drove the dramatic retreat of arctic sea ice during summer 2007?

Research indicates that the Arctic had substantially less sea ice during this period compared to present Current desert regions of Central Asia were extensively forested due to higher rainfall, and the warm temperate forest belts in China and Japan were extended northwards West African sediments additionally record the «African Humid Period», an interval between 16,000 and 6,000 years ago when Africa was much wetter due to a strengthening of the African monsoon While there do not appear to have been significant temperature changes at most low latitude sites, other climate changes have been reported.

Science Daily: Arctic Nearly Free of Summer Sea Ice During First Half of 21st Century, Experts Predict.

And projections show the extent of sea ice during the spring breeding season changing relatively little well into this century.

Of course, what happens this summer is important, but I think the sea ice is conditioned for a colder, and more extensive sea ice during the next couple of seasons.

The expansion of sea ice during the last ice age acted as a «lid» on the Southern Ocean, preventing CO2 from escaping.

The effect of last summer's wind anomaly and ice - albedo feedback may be found in a number of publications, including ours: Zhang, J., R.W. Lindsay, M. Steele, and A. Schweiger, What drove the dramatic retreat of Arctic sea ice during summer 2007?

Our studies show that there have been large fluctuations in the amount of summer sea ice during the last 10,000 years.

I am very well aware and have previously blogged that there are multiple factors that determine the degree of ice lost any given year — but the literature is clear that even in 2007, global warming played «a large part» (see «What drove the dramatic retreat of arctic sea ice during summer 2007?

Here's where I don't agree with statements in the letter: It states that our study (Francis and Vavrus, 2012) suggests that, ``... the demise of Arctic sea ice during summer should lead to colder winter weather over the United States.»

The NPS model indicates an accelerated thinning trend in Arctic sea ice during the last decade.

Rather than projecting out to the mid-twenty-first century, it is clear that the Arctic Ocean already has crossed a threshold with open water during the summer and first - year sea ice during the winter covering more than 50 percent of its area.

First, we expect the ice thickness distribution in April 30 from redistribution (divergence / convergence) of sea ice during December and April, based on the daily ice velocity data.

Edinburgh, T. & Day, J. (2016) Estimating the extent of Antarctic summer sea ice during the Heroic Age of Exploration, The Cryosphere, doi: 10.5194 / tc -10-2721-2016.

Stephanie M. Downes, Riccardo Farneti, Petteri Uotila, Stephen M. Griffies, Simon J. Marsland, et al. (2015) An assessment of Southern Ocean water masses and sea ice during 1988 - 2007 in a suite of interannual CORE - II simulations, 94, 67 - 94, Ocean Modelling, doi: 10.1016 / j.ocemod.2015.07.022,

«Thanks to the sediment core data, we have clear evidence that, during the last interglacial roughly 125,000 years ago, the central Arctic Ocean was still covered with sea ice during the summer.

«Arctic sea ice during the Pliocene era.»

Climate change and the resulting loss of sea ice during the summer have opened new hunting territory for the killer whales in the eastern Canadian Arctic, but scientists knew very little about these animals until they tapped into the traditional knowledge of Inuit hunters who shared unique firsthand descriptions of orca hunting tactics.

Not exact matches

UAF has worked extensively with both institutional and commercial partners in Alaska and in recent years, using drones to monitor sea lion populations in the Aleutian Islands, conduct ice flow and environmental surveying missions for NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, inspect pipelines for oil and gas giant BP and assist a Russian tanker during a dangerous late - season fuel delivery to the remote Alaskan outpost of Nome.

Ingredients: 300 g whole grain wheat sourdough starter (100 % hydration) 125 g whole grain wheat flour 125 g white wheat flour 150 g water or milk (I used milk) 8 g fine sea salt 1 tablespoon of chopped tarragon sesame seeds for topping 10 ice cubes for creating steam during baking

Ingredients for the dough: 225 g white wheat flour 150 g active white wheat flour sourdough starter 100 g walnut milk (or any other milk of your choice) 1 tablespoon rum 1 tablespoon honey (I used acacia honey which has quite neutral taste, you could also use floral honey) 35 g fat (I used 12 g of butter and 2 tablespoons of lemon peel infused olive oil that tastes like a liquid lemon peel:) 4 g fine sea salt Ingredients for the filling: 150 g ground walnuts 200 g apple sauce 1 tablespoon rum 1 tablespoon honey Other: 10 ice cubes for steam during the bake

Scientists from Rice University and Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi's Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies have discovered that Earth's sea level did not rise steadily but rather in sharp, punctuated bursts when the planet's glaciers melted during the period of global warming at the close of the last ice age.

«Although a direct causal link has not been established between the atmospheric phenomena observed in late October 2012 and the record - breaking sea - ice loss observed during the preceding summer months, all of the observations are consistent with such an interpretation,» states the Oceanography article.