Sentences with phrase «sea ice thickness help»
• How can improved estimates of sea ice thickness help improve seasonal predictions of sea ice conditions?
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New way of measuring sea ice thickness could help assess how sea ice is affected by climate change
Assimilation helps constrain the ice extent to observations and helps improve the simulation of sea ice thickness.
It is argued that uncertainty, differences and errors in sea ice model forcing sets complicate the use of models to determine the exact causes of the recently reported decline in Arctic sea ice thickness, but help in the determination of robust features if the models are tuned appropriately against observations.
Ship reports of sea ice thickness will help evaluate the vulnerability of the first - year and second - year ice to solar and ocean heating.
Since 1950, Arctic sea ice has lost half its area and half its thickness, helping to cause the phenomenon of Arctic amplification − the greater temperature rise (approaching 3 °C) observed in the Arctic than anywhere else on Earth.
Submissions of melt pond fraction, ice thickness, and any other sea ice parameter based on early - season data that could contribute to a status summary of pre-season conditions and help inform subsequent contributions to the regular SIO monthly report.
She says improved summer weather predictions as well as satellite measurements of sea ice thickness and concentration could help forecasting.