Sentences with phrase «sea ice trends around»

Global climate model projections for sea ice trends around Antarctica are at odds with what is being observed.

Not exact matches

It is one of the reasons ascribed to the increasing trend in sea ice around Antarctica.

Changes in the winds around Antarctica therefore change ice - concentration trends around Antarctica [8] by influencing sea - ice production and melt rates [9].

In fact, as I proposed in my overview of ice trends last October, the system up there may be becoming more like the sea ice around Antarctica, which flashes into existence each austral winter and then all disappears each southern summer.

Scientists who study the warming seas and complicated climate and ice trends around Antarctica got a big jolt in recent days as yet another great fringing, floating ice shelf jutting from the Antarctic Peninsula began to disintegrate.

The goal, the scientists say, is to compare independent methods of gauging ice trends from factors including sea temperature, ice thickness and cycles of atmospheric pressure and winds around the Arctic.

But on the contrary, the Southern Ocean has warmed by around 0.5 °C in the three decades since satellites began measuring sea ice trends.

This is an important article, Climategrog, because it shows from a different type of data (date of minimum extent) that something happened around 2007 to Arctic sea ice that interrupted a 35 year trend.

Jonathan Bamber, director of the Bristol Glaciology Centre at the University of Bristol, UK, says: «We have already seen an unusually early start to melting around the margins of Greenland in 2016 and the new findings from NSIDC of exceptionally low sea ice extent for May and the lowest Northern Hemisphere snow cover in April for 50 years is in line with the longer - term, decadal trends for the Arctic as a whole,» said

The oceans have risen by around 2.5 cm over the last decade, emphasising just how warm the seas and the atmosphere have become already As ice caps glaciers and sea ice show us the trend in rather obvious ways, scientists studying the phenomena have been shocked.

The modeled evolution of Arctic sea ice volume appears to be much stronger correlated with changes in ice thickness than with ice extent as it shows a similar negative trend beginning around the mid-1990s.

The composite record show large sea ice variations around a small negative trend since 1900, although the trend from a statistical point of view is not significant (Polyakov et al. 2003).

If the sea ice around Antarctica is growing (on a decadal trend basis)-- which any schoolboy analysis of freely available basic data shows...... what does this tell you about the certainty of global warming?

From 1978 to 1996, the average ice cover around Antarctica showed almost no trend (a slight increase 1.3 % per decade), however ice decreased by 2.9 % per decade on average over the arctic seas (1).