Sentences with phrase «sea ice out»

An observed drift of sea ice out of the Lincoln Sea on 27 June supports Gudmandsen's July heuristic forecast, with expected movement of ice from the Lincoln Sea to begin in early July.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the circulation patterns favoured the motion of older, thicker sea ice out of the Arctic.

The Transpolar Drift Stream now sweeps across most of the Arctic Ocean, carrying most of the older, thicker sea ice out of the Arctic Ocean through Fram Strait (lower right).

... The dominance of summer anticyclonic circulation over the Arctic and the reduced SIE over eastern Siberia and the north of Alaska were similar to the results of Ogi et al. (2008), who demonstrated that the dramatic changes in Arctic SIE in 2007 were produced by [wind - driven] Ekman drift of sea ice out of the marginal seas to the central Arctic.»

Behavior of the sea ice over the past winter and the spring and the large positive temperature anomalies in the Arctic (as high as 20 degrees C over large regions in the past winter) suggest that an extent near that of the 2012 minimum may occur again if there is large export of sea ice out to the Atlantic Ocean via the Fram Strait.

While a negative AO leads to warmer temperatures over the Arctic, it also tends to reduce the flow of sea ice out of the Arctic by affecting the winds that can export the ice to warmer waters, where it melts.

Climate change is pulling the sea ice out from under polar bears» feet, forcing some to swim longer distances to find food and habitat.

In 2007 we had a persistent high sitting over the Canadian Arctic, which contributed significantly to the export of sea ice out of the Arctic.

Not exact matches

The discovery is incredibly important, though, because it shows scientists exactly why the most vulnerable parts of Greenland's ice are melting so quickly — each summer since 1997, melting ice that would usually be captured and refrozen the next winter is now flowing straight out to sea.

Up north when somone is old and sick we put them on an ice flow and give it a shove out to sea.

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INGREDIENTS for the labneh: 1 cup of 2 % pain greek yogurt 1 tablespoon of honey 1/2 teaspoon of maldon sea salt or kosher salt for the crust: 1 cup of all - purpose white flour (plus a couple of tablespoons to roll out the dough) 1/2 cup of buckwheat flour 1/2 teaspoon of sea salt 1/2 cup (typically one stick) of very cold sliced butter 1/2 cup of water with ice for the apple filling: 3 apples, cored, halved, and thinly sliced 2 tablespoons of coconut palm sugar (or regular white sugar) a pinch of sea salt 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon 1 tablespoon of pistachios, roughly chopped 5 - 6 sage leaves, roughly chopped

This water pump can be put out of action or weakened by changes in the freshwater pressure, the ice sheet breaking up or shifting sea ice and this results in the increasing climatic variability.

Even when sea levels were at their lowest, about 22,000 years ago at the height of the last ice age, the islands were likely out of the deer's swimming range.

In aerial photographs taken before Prince Gustav disappeared, Sjögren Glacier was a smooth - surfaced plume that sloped gradually from the mainland far out into the fjord, inching toward the ice shelf and sea.

Polar bears must swim farther out to sea in search of ice floes where they hunt; some expend all of their energy in doing so and end up drowning

An open North - West Passage may be good news for bowheads, which will have more places to feed, but many Inuit will struggle, since they rely on walruses that are running out of sea ice on which to breed.

Icebergs that have calved off the edge of the glacier are visible floating out to sea — but so are cracks hundreds of kilometers inland from Jakobshavn, on what would otherwise be a flat expanse of ice.

The result is that bears must swim further and further out to sea in search of ice floes; some expend all of their energy in doing so and end up drowning.

As the ice flows faster and approaches the sea, the surface gets stretched out and cracks open.

«Today, the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers are grounded in a very precarious position, and major retreat may already be happening, caused primarily by warm waters melting from below the ice shelves that jut out from each glacier into the sea,» said Matthew Wise of Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute, and the study's first author.

At a hamlet on the southern end of Ellesmere called Grise Fiord, whose Inuit name means «the place that never thaws out,» the Inuit have watched the sea ice that supports their traditional seal, polar bear and whale hunting decrease every year.

Ballantyne's next challenge is to sleuth out the mechanisms that accelerated Pliocene sea ice melting.

When salt - rich water leaks out of sea ice, it sinks into the sea and can occasionally create an eerie finger of ice called a brinicle.

Inevitably, however, sea ice cracks, and the brine leaks out.

TALK about being chilled out: a species of sea anemone has been found on the underside of Antarctica's ice sheets.

A possible cause for the accelerated Arctic warming is the melting of the region's sea ice, which reduces the icy, bright area that can reflect sunlight back out into space, resulting in more solar radiation being absorbed by the dark Arctic waters.

What's left to figure out is whether this is happening with other subglacial lakes around the Greenland ice sheet, as well as whether and how to incorporate the findings into models that are aimed at gauging how much Greenland might change with the warming climate and how much water it could add to the rising seas.

It was thought that the water quickly flowed between ice and rock and out to sea, with little impact on the bottom ice layers.

Taking the perma out of permafrost Arctic sea ice continues to shrink, with experts predicting an ice - free Arctic by as early as 2020.

Golden, a professor of mathematics at the University of Utah, studies the dynamics of sea ice, and he regularly goes out into the field to test his hypotheses.

«Loss of sea ice has resulted in walrus hauling out on land in Alaska and Russia in massive numbers — these land haul outs result in trampling of their young,» Laidre said.

That water collected until it was too much for space and the whole thing blew out, sending the water in a rush out to sea and causing the ice above it to slump downward.

This line marks a deep ocean channel that remained water - filled even during past ice ages, when sea levels saw channels between other islands in the region dry out.

The increase could be due to a combination of stronger winds spreading out the sea ice and fresh water from melting ice on land diluting seawater so it freezes at higher temperatures.

Finding out how ice sheets are behaving is crucial, Alley and others say: The ice of Antarctica and Greenland contains enough water to raise the sea level by more than 200 feet.

«Those ships are great emitters of soot,» Zender points out, adding that, «putting a locally heavy source in the Arctic in the early spring,» is virtually guaranteed «to polish off the summer sea ice.»

Now, a year and a half later, data from the auspicious encounter show that minke whales have staked out a unique ecological niche that no other baleen whale can take advantage of: hunting krill under sea ice.

This is one way that warming oceans could be helping to shift Greenland's ice off the land and out to sea.

But when the Amundsen Sea region is destabilized, the model showed, the entering seawater was able to erode those ice shelves from the inside out.

Warming water may also be unlocking ice from the seabed, removing the buttresses that stop inland ice sliding out to sea, says Rignot.

These two competing effects cancel each other out, meaning little change in the average temperature of European winters as a consequence of sea - ice loss».

While the penguins primarily live on sea ice, they seek out ice - free land to breed and to incubate their eggs.

With two research icebreakers, over 100 geologists and geographers from Canada and the United States, three Inuit mammal spotters on the watch for vulnerable wildlife, and two underwater autonomous vehicles that can operate beneath sheet ice, a geological survey team set out last night to crush their way through the last untrammelled regions of the Arctic, mapping the sea floor as they go.

This has to do with the physical processes that affect the way ice in a glacier moves and flows out to sea.

Scientists are testing out a drone that could better map sea ice on a daily basis, and follow polar bear movements

The ocean waters that are cleared of sea ice by strong winds blowing from the coast carve out a suitable enclave where marine organisms can thrive, unlike the rest of the icy cold Antarctic region.

He saw rocks embedded in glacial ice and heard at least one report of a rocky iceberg floating far out to sea.

In a study out of the University of Arizona, researchers found that melting ice sheets had a greater impact on sea level rise than the thermal expansion of the oceans during the previous interglacial period 125,000 years ago.

I would then of course point out that the melting is occuring much more quickly than we anticipated, at least in the case of the Arctic sea ice, Greenland's glaciers and the Western Antarctic Peninsula.