Sentences with phrase «sea ice thickness»

Our results stress the importance of considering loss of sea ice thickness in future climate change assessments.

It is therefore important to consider both loss of sea ice concentration and sea ice thickness in evaluating the response of the atmosphere.

• What are the systematic differences between different measurement systems for sea ice thickness?

These contributors either used an ice model with a group of ensemble wind patterns or they applied a summer melt rate to different initial sea ice thickness categories.

The scientists have measured average sea ice thickness to less than a meter in the area, and observed a late start of the freeze up period.

According to the study, including sea ice thickness and concentration could improve the seasonal forecasts.

Summer sea ice continues to decline — the 2009 - 2010 summer sea ice cover extent was the third lowest since satellite monitoring began in 1979, and sea ice thickness continues to thin.

Yet, next to ice coverage and type, sea ice thickness plays the most important role in assessing shipping hazards and predicting ice break - up.

• How can improved estimates of sea ice thickness help improve seasonal predictions of sea ice conditions?

Our future work will assess how sea ice thickness loss contributes to the large - scale atmospheric circulation (see more).

In this study, we conduct sensitivity experiments to isolate the role of sea ice thickness on the atmospheric circulation.

Decline in Arctic sea ice thickness from submarine and ICESat records: 1958 - 2008.

ICESat - 2 will add to our understanding of Arctic sea ice by measuring sea ice thickness from space, providing scientists more complete information about the volume of sea ice in the Arctic and Southern oceans.

NOAA@NSIDC is pleased to announce the release of On - Ice Arctic Sea Ice Thickness Measurements by Auger, Core, and Electromagnetic Induction, From the Fram Expedition Onward.

Zhang, 5.1 (+ / - 0.6), Modeling The seasonal prediction focuses not only on the total Arctic sea ice extent, but also on sea ice thickness field and ice edge location.

The effort takes a holistic look at the «new normal» Pacific Arctic of the last decade, which now has a longer open - water season with reduced sea ice thickness and extent, increased primary production, and observed changes in abundance and behavior of Arctic species.

A new ensemble prediction from an ice - ocean model was submitted by Zhang for the July outlook and the new sea ice thickness map for September 2010 still shows ice remaining in Lancaster Sound.

• Expand our existing Unified Sea Ice Thickness Climate Data Record (Sea Ice CDR) to include ICESat, IceBridge, and CryoSat - 2 estimates of the ice thickness.

Decadal hindcast simulations of Arctic Ocean sea ice thickness made by a modern dynamic - thermodynamic sea ice model and forced independently by both the ERA - 40 and NCEP / NCAR reanalysis data sets are compared for the first time.

The above figure shows monthly mean model simulated sea ice thickness (m) and satellite observed ice edge (white line) for 9/1979 and 9/2003.

Zhang and Lindsay, 4.60 (4.00 - 5.20), Modeling Our seasonal prediction focuses not only on the total Arctic sea ice extent, but also on sea ice thickness field and ice edge location.

At Twitter Kirye posted an excellent GIF animation to compare Arctic sea ice thickness over the past 10 years:

Using Envisat radar altimeter data, scientists from the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at University College London (UCL) measured sea ice thickness over the Arctic from 2002 to 2008 and found that it had been fairly constant until the record loss of ice in the summer of 2007.

Shibata et al. (Kitami Institute of Technology and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency); 5.0 Million Square Kilometers; Heuristic, Statistical Prediction is based on estimated sea ice thickness derived from AMSR - E 36 GHz polarization ratio, typical estimates for ice loss due to melting and outflow through Fram Strait and cloudiness.

Caption for the image above: ICESat, CryoSat and PIOMAS sea ice thickness measurements in the Arctic.

Therefore, future AGCM modeling studies should account for both changing sea ice thickness and sea ice concentration.

And scientists from NASA recently flew a series of missions over the Arctic during the IceBridge project, to study details of Arctic sea ice thickness as well as changing glaciers in Greenland.

The 2008 observations reinforce our contention that the record minimum of 2007 was less just the damage left by a perfect storm of unusual winds, but more the result of a gradual erosion of the mean sea ice thickness over the past 20 years and the increasing abundance of thin young ice at the beginning of the melt season.

In addition to measuring currents, temperatures, and seawater salinity, the scientists calculated sea ice thickness with the aid of a torpedo - shaped instrument, towed by a helicopter, that beamed electromagnetic waves at the ice surface.

The first seven panels show different outcomes for sea ice thickness patterns based on ensembles of atmospheric forcing.

Arctic sea ice thickness variability and its influence on the atmospheric response to projected sea ice loss.

In an earlier study (Labe et al., 2018a), we show that the CESM - LENS sea ice thickness compares well with satellite observations and output from an ice - ocean model.

There is high confidence that the average winter sea ice thickness within the Arctic Basin decreased between 1980 and 2008.

Loss of sea ice thickness contributes to a negative Northern Annular Mode (NAM / NAO)- like response, which is found in the net sea ice loss experiment.

Almost all state - of - the - art AOGCMs now include more elaborate sea ice dynamics and some now include several sea ice thickness categories and relatively advanced thermodynamics.

Mäkynen, M., and J. Karvonen, «MODIS sea ice thickness and open water — sea ice charts over the Barents and Kara Seas for development and validation of sea ice products from microwave sensor data,» Remote Sensing, vol.