Sentences with phrase «sea ice for»

Reports by Joe Leavitt, a Barrow ice expert, indicate that the prevailing winds have been pushing ice offshore, making access to sea ice for hunting difficult along the Chukchi coast.

A single cyclone «done in» the sea ice for 2012, WUWT speak, while everything started in 2007 by the not mentioned Arctic dipole.

'' [Polar bears] are dependent on the Arctic sea ice for all of their essential behaviors, and as the ice melts and global warming transforms the Arctic, polar bears are starving, drowning, even resorting to cannibalism because they don't have access to their usual food sources,» said Kassie Siegel, staff attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity.

NASA scientists said the warming has caused an extreme melting of Arctic sea ice for the beginning of 2016.

Still, the recent heat and record - low sea ice for this time of the year are extreme departures from what has become normal now.

«Two findings were most critical to FWS's listing determination: (1) extensive declines in Arctic sea ice extent already have occurred and are projected to continue; and (2) the polar bear depends on sea ice for its continued survival as a species.

On a trip to Antarctic waters in 2014, Friedlaender's team learned that minkes rely on intact sea ice for their meals.

Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are listed as a marine mammal, because they spend most of their lives on the (frozen) ocean — and are dependent on sea ice for their specialised feeding.

Polar bears depend on sea ice for catching their main prey, seals.

«They are dependent on the Arctic sea ice for all of their essential behaviors, and as the ice melts and global warming transforms the Arctic, polar bears are starving, drowning, even resorting to cannibalism because they don't have access to their usual food sources.»

Zhang J., M. Steele, R. Lindsay, A. Schweiger, J. Morison, «Ensemble 1 - Year predictions of Arctic sea ice for the spring and summer of 2008», Journal of Polar Science, submitted 2008.

The Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook (SIWO), a contribution to SEARCH, is a resource for Alaska Native subsistence hunters, coastal communities, and others interested in sea ice and walrus.

In regard to the Rigor and Wallace paper I cited above, I have been following the drift patterns of the Arctic sea ice for some time now here,

The outlook for arctic sea ice for September 2009, based on June data, indicates a continuation of low pan-arctic sea ice extent and no indication that a return to historical levels will occur.

This update on the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) program includes recent news from each of SEARCH's three Action Teams as well as highlights from other activities that contribute to SEARCH goals, including the Sea Ice Prediction Network, the Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook, and the Arctic Observing Open Science meeting.

Researchers are still hunting for plausible reasons why the area of Antarctic sea ice for May was an above - average 4.64 million square miles (12.03 million square kilometers), according to the NSIDC, despite the multi-year overall increase in global surface temperatures.

Associated with the warming, there has been an enhanced atmospheric hydrological cycle in the Southern Ocean that results in an increase of the Antarctic sea ice for the past three decades through the reduced upward ocean heat transport and increased snowfall.

The gains in Antarctic sea ice — the sea ice area that DOES MATTER to albedo are 25 %, 30 % and as high as 43 % GREATER than the 1980 - 2010 «average» sea ice for each day of the year.

Major food sources are under stress due to many factors, including lack of sea ice for marine mammals.150 Thawing of near - surface permafrost beneath lakes and ponds that provide drinking water cause food and water security challenges for villages.

There are important implications of this poor record of snow depth observations over sea ice for predicting future conditions.

The Inuit peoples of the north, who depend on sea ice for hunting, will lose an essential source of food and culture.

This is a major problem for scientists like me who study the Southern Ocean (surrounding Antarctica), which is largely covered with sea ice for much of the year.

I went above and beyond with that opportunity, creating short presentations for children on the importance of Arctic sea ice for polar bears and us.

Of the first six months of 2016, five of those saw the lowest levels of Arctic sea ice for those respective months since records began in 1979.

High Arctic Oscillation (AO) conditions during winter precondition summer sea ice for extensive retreats.

Compared to the record low for the month set in 2010, sea ice for December 2016 was less extensive in the Kara, Barents, and East Greenland Seas, and more extensive in Baffin and Hudson Bays.

Figure 2a and 2b show the spatial extent of mid-September sea ice for 2008 and 2009.

NASA has been conducting flyovers of the Arctic sea ice for eight years through Operation IceBridge, a mission designed to collect data on changes in sea ice shape and size.

Increasing Arctic sea ice for a decade should by itself wipe out AGW, C and W, Arctic Sea Ice Blog [Neven «here I am with a gray beard and there is still more ice but just wait and see»...] and scrap the current models.

Even with near zero CO2, and the Sun 3 - 4 % dimmer than now, the tropics require albedo help from clouds and encroaching sea ice for global freeze - 0ver — hence, an interesting science problem that needs careful cold - climate cloud and ocean dynamics modeling.

They own the biggest ice breaker fleet and don't mind melting sea ice for fun and profit.

«There are folks who rely on the annual sea ice for their livelihood,» Labe said.

Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) rely on sea ice for roaming, breeding, and as a platform from which to hunt seals.

Community - based observations and field data for the Bering Sea ice cover summarized in the Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook (SIWO) indicate that even though Bering Sea ice was extensive, it was thinner than in past decades and hence susceptible to rapid retreat.

Ground - based observations in the Bering Sea indicate below - normal ice thickness this spring (see the Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook).

The BRT concluded that «at least in the Bering and Chukchi Seas, bearded seals may not require the presence sea ice for a significant part of the year».

We revisited the SHEBA dataset, focusing first on the Arctic winter when there is no sunlight and the ice is too cold to melt, to understand how winter weather «prepares» the sea ice for the spring melt season.

It also saw record - low Antarctic sea ice for much of the year, though scientists are still working to determine the role of human activity in the region's sea ice changes.

The Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook (SIWO), which provides information on spring sea ice, weather and walrus for Alaska Native subsistence hunters and coastal communities in the Bering Strait region, will be published each Friday this spring while sea ice is present.

I'm aware of two most prominent reconstructions of arctic sea ice for the 20th century based on these data.

In contrast, ponds and aerosol deposition have little effect on Antarctic sea ice for all climates considered.

Unless something amazing happens, we are within 32 months of zero Arctic sea ice for 6 months, and within 71 months of total climate chaos and the collapse of so called civilisation.

Scientists use the summer minimum as one measure of the extent of Arctic sea ice for that year.

The team, which Marc led and provided the logistical support for, deployed from Resolute to Nord Greenland before setting up a rustic field camp on the sea ice for six days, during which time we mechanically drilled the ice to measure thickness, measuring snow depth in a grid pattern along the flight lines as well as dragging instruments along the surface that produced the same measurements for comparison to the airborne data.

As for tipping points, I personally think this term is greatly overused, and is inappropriate in most place (Arctic sea ice for example).

This change speed is dizzying us in the Arctic, even snow buntings come back very early this spring, and polar bears are seen on the thin enough sea ice for seals at the North Pole.

However, there has been sea ice for hundred millions of years.

Because polar bears are entirely dependent upon the sea ice for their survival, any observed and projected reductions in preferred sea ice habitats can only result in declines.

Twenty - sixteen also brought forth record - low average Arctic sea ice for much of the year, and the second lowest minimum sea ice cover reported.

Chinstrap and Gentoo penguins, for example, are less dependent on sea ice for their survival and have immigrated into some of the strongholds once dominated by Adélie penguins.