Sentences with phrase «seasonal ice»

The higher latitude seasonal ice cover is also thicker and regions with typically shorter melt seasons can be expected to have a better chance of surviving the summer.

When seasonal ice retreat occurs early, low - albedo open water areas are exposed early, which gain a lot of energy from the sun.

It is likely that the primary reason for the large loss of ice this summer is that the ice cover has continued to thin and become more dominated by seasonal ice.

A glacier's mass is the net result of seasonal snow accumulation and seasonal ice loss.

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But will probably end up as the third - or fourth - greatest seasonal ice retreat on record.

This project will advance our understanding of seasonal ice zone (SIZ) cloud - ice feedbacks and our ability to forecast SIZ weather and ice conditions through the combination of carefully designed model experiments, observations, and technology developments which are targeted to validate and improve the models.

Climate change hasn't been kind to the Arctic Circle, as evidenced by the decrease of seasonal ice in the area and the encroachment of temperate species.

It seems as if, for some time to come, there will still be seasonal ice in the area of the northern Canadian Arctic Islands and Greenland where the last of the ice appears likely to continue to be and that is the area that most of us project as a potential refugium.

Highlights include the Salted Caramel Pudding with crème fraiche whipped cream and brown sugar, aMolten Chocolate Cake with chocolate ice cream, and a rotating selection of seasonal ice creams.

A big «hole» appeared in August in the ice pack in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, north of Alaska, when thinner seasonal ice surrounded by thicker, older ice melted.

Hence, the Arctic is transforming from a mainly perennial ice pack to a mainly seasonal ice pack.

Locally, declining sea ice is affecting the feeding and migration patterns of polar bears, whales, walrus and seals, and the people who live in the Arctic and rely on seasonal ice for their livelihoods.

A big «hole» appeared in August in the ice pack in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, north of Alaska, when thinner seasonal ice surrounded by thicker, older ice melted.

The new analysis, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research on Tuesday, is the latest of many findings supporting the idea that the region has shifted to a new state in which seasonal ice, which forms in winter and melts in the summer, dominates.

The results of these flights and ancillary data were released in May for inclusion in seasonal ice prediction models.

Scientists have long warned that the world needs to quickly move away from fossil fuels in order to mitigate global climate change, but governments with stakes in the Arctic have yet to heed these calls: instead they have viewed less seasonal ice due climate change as a chance to exploit the region for more fossil fuels.

A post-season report provides an in - depth analysis of factors driving sea ice extent this summer as well as explore the scientific methods for predicting seasonal ice extent.

Seasonal ice begins to form on the leeward side of coastlines in late fall, and frigid northerly winds blow the ice southward.

The shift to seasonal ice decreases the reflectivity of Earth's surface and allows more solar energy to be absorbed in the ice - ocean system.

Ocean salinity in the Arctic is of particular interest because it changes significantly with seasonal ice cover and is expected to decrease as the Greenland ice sheet melts and releases massive amounts of freshwater.

This family - run microcreamery marries seasonal ice creams like buttermilk rhubarb and strawberry lovage with cakey graham crackers in flavors such as cardamom.

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I am not implying that the global climate system may be close to a phase transition, but as we see, large parts of the Arctic Ocean are evolving toward seasonal ice free state.

Seasonal ice grows to only two meters every year.

While I share your concern that the «porn» content of the discussion be avoided, I'm troubled that an obvious conclusion is possibility being missed — the Arctic Ocean seasonal ice recovery may have exceeded a tipping point leading to accelerating degradation.

While the goal of this campaign was to improve seasonal ice prediction, the work also showed two important processes at work:

With lack of multiyear ice, a normal or slightly below - normal thickness offshore ice cover (based on ice thickness flights earlier in the season) and coastal ice vulnerable to early break - up, ice conditions would favor a normal or somewhat early seasonal ice retreat.

(07/07/2009) Arctic sea ice thinned dramatically between the winters of 2004 and 2008, with thin seasonal ice replacing thick older ice as the dominant type of sea ice for the first time on record, report NASA researchers.

Much of the Bearded Seal's habitat encompasses seasonal ice zones where first - year sea ice is renewed every winter but melts completely every summer.

This correlates with the general speed of seasonal ice reduction for the entire Arctic during July 2008 and 2007 and earlier as published on the NSIDC website.

This grew out of our Office of Naval Research - funded Seasonal Ice Zone Reconnaissance Surveys done by Coast Guard Station Kodiak in their C130 aircraft.

Consequently, a larger than normal amount of thinner seasonal ice dominated most of the Arctic Ocean, melting faster.

Lately, the Arctic is increasingly characterized by seasonal ice cover and large areas are now prone to completely melt away in summer.

Steele, M., S. Dickinson, J. Zhang, and R.W. Lindsay, Seasonal ice loss in the Beaufort Sea: Toward synchrony and prediction, J. Geophy.

It's perfect served with warm winter desserts and pies, plus you can use Autumn flavours to make seasonal ice creams (eg, my Pumpkin Orange Ice Cream — also dairy - free)

Improvements were made to the statistical method, including the use of high resolution AMSR - E sea ice concentration data, a time - domain filter of five days that reduces observational noise, and a space - domain selection that neglects the outer seasonal ice zones.

«four years of field experiments indicates that seasonal ice undergoes an albedo evolution with seven phases; cold snow, melting snow, pond formation, pond drainage, pond evolution, open water, and freezeup.

When, perhaps within only a few years, the Arctic Ocean switches fully to seasonal ice conditions, the jet streams will almost inevitably take up new patterns of behavior, leading to weather that is quite different from what our farmers need to feed the population.