Sentences with phrase «sea ice loss»

As the paper suggests, one could be the evaporation of surface waters that have become exposed because of sea ice loss in the region, he added.

The seasonal atmospheric response to projected sea ice loss in the late twenty - first century.

Three (3) respondents suggest a return toward the long term trend line of summer sea ice loss.

The researchers also examined 92 recent scientific papers that addressed the evidence for sea ice loss and its impact on future polar bear populations.

Combined impacts of high levels of legal / illegal harvest with rapid sea ice loss suggest that the risk for depletion is likely high.

The surface melt is of course due to global warming, and also due to arctic sea ice loss (which is at least partly an effect of global warming).

It also provides a baseline for assessing the potential impact of noise pollution from increases in shipping traffic made possible by sea ice loss.

This may be a limiting factor in the rate of future sea ice loss.

The mean of the model ensemble is reducing biases of each model and provides the best estimate of the signal of the polar sea ice loss.

I assume this lack of awareness was due to a lack of data on large sea ice loss seasons and lack of extreme events caused by blocking.

This causes further warming, which in turn causes more sea ice loss, and so on.

And the decline has accelerated, becoming far more dramatic, since about the year 2000, leading to annual average sea ice loss of around three million square kilometers.

Somewhere we have to have a list of the various elements that have been proposed to explain the difference between modeled sea ice loss and actual loss.

While sea ice loss in 2012 had some atmospheric conditions supporting loss at the beginning of summer, the loss in 2012 probably was the result of thin sea ice initial conditions.

Further, it only took one month of persistent wind conditions to slow the rate of sea ice loss, resulting in an increase in 2009 sea ice extent compared to 2007 and 2008.

This pattern is favorable for sea ice loss as the winds, which roughly follow the contour lines, blow from the Bering Strait region across the entire Central Arctic.

Conversely, multiple lines of evidence suggest that the thermohaline circulation has been weakening since the start of the current century, and this weakening has occurred in tandem with an observed slow - down in the rate of Arctic winter sea ice loss, particularly in the Atlantic sector.

The year 2007 was a «perfect storm» of atmospheric conditions for sea ice loss during all of the summer (Zhang et al. 2008, and others).

This is consistent with developing early sea ice losses along the Siberian coast and the Kara Sea.

Its disappearance, driven by warming waters and rising air temperatures, means the region is losing a bulwark against even more dramatic sea ice loss.

Main Experts Now Say Unprecedented Arctic Sea Ice Loss Occurred In Past - 50 % Less Ice Than Summer 2011»

Perhaps somewhat more interestingly, we find a clear opposing response in the stratosphere to polar vs. subpolar sea ice loss.

Thus, despite the higher September 2013 sea ice extent relative to the previous five years, the Arctic is primed for continued summer sea ice loss with large interannual variability.

«But this doesn't in any way contradict the long - term sea ice loss.»

This kind of significant change could increase the rate of warming already in progress, affect further sea ice loss in the Arctic and alter shipping access to the Arctic Ocean.

Many of you probably have watched this, or a similar video, but as the Arctic sea ice loss comes into the news over the next few weeks, some of your less educated friends may wonder «Why do we care?»

That's why i asked Does Sea Ice loss create the condition for an emerging permanent El Nino state?.