Sentences with phrase «sea ice track»

In early September, I noted that this year's sea ice track was «decent» compared to 2012.

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Researchers were tracking the movement of the walrus and their behaviors in order to understand how the loss of sea ice affects their foraging patterns.

In addition to tracking Arctic change, the sea - ice record is also important for climate modellers.

This type of analysis may be useful for future applications of using seismic records to track the strength of sea ice over large regions, which has been difficult to determine from satellite observations.»

It means tracking landscape shifts and the swirl of ocean currents, and conjuring the ghost of Pliocene sea ice.

Given that we now have several years more data, we can essentially «test» the IPCC predictions and we arrive at the conclusion (i.e., message 1) that the climate system is tracking the «worst case scenario» (or worse in the case of ice melt and sea - level rise) presented by the IPCC.

Satellites from NASA and other agencies have been tracking sea ice changes since 1979, and the data show that Arctic sea ice has been shrinking at an average rate of about 20,500 square miles (53,100 square kilometers) per year over the 1979 - 2015 period.

Scientists consider Arctic sea ice as a sensitive climate indicator and track this minimum extent every year to see if any trends emerge.

Track of the vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer in the Weddell Sea, with the remnants of the Larsen - B Ice Shelf and Antarctic Peninsula in the background.

This year, sea ice in the Arctic reached its smallest maximum extent since satellites began tracking polar ice patterns, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, while scientists have also forecast ice - free Arctic summers in two to three decades (ClimateWire, July 16, 201ice in the Arctic reached its smallest maximum extent since satellites began tracking polar ice patterns, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, while scientists have also forecast ice - free Arctic summers in two to three decades (ClimateWire, July 16, 201ice patterns, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, while scientists have also forecast ice - free Arctic summers in two to three decades (ClimateWire, July 16, 201Ice Data Center, while scientists have also forecast ice - free Arctic summers in two to three decades (ClimateWire, July 16, 201ice - free Arctic summers in two to three decades (ClimateWire, July 16, 2013).

More comes from melting sea ice, says Laura de Steur of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research in «t Horntje, who is tracking the build - sea ice, says Laura de Steur of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research in «t Horntje, who is tracking the build - Sea Research in «t Horntje, who is tracking the build - up.

In 2012, the year in which Arctic sea ice hit a record low, 69 percent of the tracked adult females in the Beaufort Sea swam more than 31 miles (50 kilometers) at least onsea ice hit a record low, 69 percent of the tracked adult females in the Beaufort Sea swam more than 31 miles (50 kilometers) at least onSea swam more than 31 miles (50 kilometers) at least once.

The researchers reached that conclusion by capturing more than two dozen polar bears, implanting temperature loggers and tracking their subsequent movements on shore and on ice in the Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska and Canada, during 2008 - 2010.

Researchers also tracked sea ice cover in the Arctic over these two periods and found that the ice declined substantially from the first to the second period.

The role of Barents Sea ice in the wintertime cyclone track and emergence of a warm - Arctic cold - Siberian anomaly.

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Koch, F., Wiens, D., Euler, G., Wilson, T., Nyblade, A., Aster, R., Huerta, A., Anandakrishnan, S., 2012, Tracking the Effect of Sea Ice Cover on Microseismic Noise Using Two Seismic Arrays in Antarctica, Proc.

Koch, F., Wiens, D., Euler, G., Aster, R., Nyblade, A., Anandakrishnan, S., Huerta, A., Wilson, T., Tracking the effect of sea ice cover on microseismic noise using two seismic arrays in Antarctica, Eos Trans.

Koch, F., Wiens, D., Euler, G., Nyblade, A., Anandakrishnan, S., Huerta, A., Wilson, T., Aster, R., Tracking the Effect of Sea Ice Cover on Microseismic Noise Using Two Seismic Arrays in Antarctica, Seismol.

An incredible spa is the icing on the cake at Prama Sanur Beach Bali where treatments are administered right in front of the sea with its naturally calming sound track.

The sampling issues arise from the fact that sea ice is highly dynamic with lots of spatial and seasonal variability so that measurements from individual moorings, submarine sonar tracks, and aircraft flights can only construct an incomplete picture of the evolution of the total Arctic sea ice volume.

Sea ice extent has tracked below 2007 for 100 days, but yesterday it came back above the 2007 daily record.

Underwater robots are used in a variety of research projects these days, from mapping the sea floor and Antarctic ice to tracking endangered species.

People interested in this post might be interested in polarbearsinternational (dot) org which has collared bear tracking and compare their locations in the Beaufort sea to the current condition of the Arctic sea ice such as at the National Snow and Ice data center, nsidc (dot) org or the University of Bremen maice such as at the National Snow and Ice data center, nsidc (dot) org or the University of Bremen maIce data center, nsidc (dot) org or the University of Bremen maps.

It should also be clear that for any one locality, a shift in the storm tracks (associated with phenomena like the NAO or the sea ice edge) will often be more of an issue than the overall change in storm statistics.

The researchers tracked 52 females from 2004 to 2009 (I was told that the necks of male bears are too thick to accommodate radio collars), then compared the recorded tracks of the bears with maps of sea ice through the same period.

However your comment on Maslowski has combined with my scanning the papers Hank linked to earlier in this thread; trend extrapolation using both PIOMAS and NPS are being used to assert that the Arctic is on a fast track to seasonally sea - ice free state.

Perhaps part of the reason why the poles warm more strongly than the lower latitudes (in addition to reduced sea - ice) may be an increase in storm activity along the storm tracks?

Updated, July 23, 1:40 p.m. A new study of methods used to track Antarctic sea ice trends has raised important questions about whether recent increases in ice there are, to a significant extent, an illusion created by flawed analysis of data collected by a series of satellites.

Three years after environmental groups sued to force the Interior Department to consider protecting polar bears under the Endangered Species Act, the Bush administration today listed the species as threatened — on track to be endangered by midcentury because of shrinking summer sea ice in a warming Arctic.

In my piece weighing the merits of very different strategies for giving ice - dependent polar bears a chance in a warming world, I promised I'd post the views of some of the biologists, sea - ice researchers and climate scientists who've been tracking relevant questions.

For much of the season, the sea ice was tracking close to long - term norms, though it had a precipitous decline in July, and is now almost two standard deviations away from the long - term average.

When both polar ocean ice sheaths are tracked together, this year is back below the quarter - century sea - ice average again.

The fate of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is determined by a complicated mix of factors, including the pressure changes, with the biggest loss of old thick ice resulting more from a great «flush» of floes than melting, Dr. Rigor and many other scientists tracking the region say.

Already the sea ice extent is tracking below this time in 2007, which remains the record year for the lowest sea ice extent.

These ice - age maps are based on tracking the motion of sea ice using passive - microwave satellite data.

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However, since August 26, total sea ice extent is already lower than at the same time in 2007 and is currently tracking as the second lowest daily extent on record.

Throughout August, Arctic sea ice extent continued to track two or more standard deviations below the long - term average.

Because ice sheets contain so much ice and have the potential to raise or lower global sea level so dramatically, measuring the mass balance of the ice sheets and tracking any mass balance changes and their causes is very important for forecasting sea level rise.

With two to three more weeks left in the melt season, sea ice continues to track below 2007 daily extents.

In particular, storms tended to track farther to the south, pulling cold air off the ice edge of eastern Canada into the Labrador Sea.

They are also swollen by melting glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets: Greenland's ice is on track to melt completely, which will eventually raise the sea level by about seven metres (23ft).

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By Sreeja VN: Sizzling underwater glacial ice, as it melts into warmer sea water, creates one of the loudest natural marine environments, and the air bubbles that pop during the process could help scientists measure the rate of glacier melt and track fast - changing polar environments.

Although July data indicated that the sea ice might be on track for a slight recovery from 2007 (though still well below «normal» climatological conditions), new sea ice data and weather forecasts show that total ice extent in early August declined at about twice the rate of any other time this summer.

Much importance has been ascribed to tracking the change in Arctic sea ice, but what about the global trend?

Their approach to determining sea - ice age is based on tracking of sea ice using satellite imagery.

Does any agency or group track sea ice volume, or can it be done?