Sentences with phrase «seasonal sea»

In both cases we're talking about seasonal sea ice floating in a thin layer on the sea, next to cold and ice - covered land.
Regardless of high uncertainty associated with such an estimate, it does provide a lower bound of the time range for projections of seasonal sea ice cover.»
The eastern Barents Sea (located in Russian territory), as defined by the Polar Bear Specialist Group (see map below), provides ample habitat for polar bears to thrive despite extended fluctuations in seasonal sea ice cover in the western portion.
Jacox M. G., M. A. Alexander, C. A. Stock and G. Hervieux (March 2017): On the skill of seasonal sea surface temperature forecasts in the California Current System and its connection to ENSO variability.
Unlike the UK Met Office and NCDC products, GISS masks sea surface temperature data at the poles where seasonal sea ice exists, and they extend land surface temperature data out over the oceans in those locations.
For 57 days in January and February 2010, the Palmer plowed along the peninsula toward Scar Inlet, ramming through seasonal sea ice up to two meters thick.
Now, a new study of Antarctica's Scotia Sea is complicating such speculation, revealing how seasonal sea ice may play an important role in supporting carbon - consuming algae and the Arctic food chain — a dynamic that will be lost in permanently open waters.
This year, the Alfred Wegener Institute contributed estimates based on two different forecasting methods for Arctic seasonal sea - ice, which produced similar results very close to the actual September minimum: in July, the AWI's dynamic forecasting model called for a September minimum of 4.93 million square kilometres, while its static model estimated an area of 4.74 million square kilometres.
The first question is, is there seasonal sea ice still at the Pole in 2050?
I think our find shows that polar bears have been around for a while, and they probably have survived situations in the past where the Arctic was warmer and there was less seasonal sea ice than today.
An overall warming in the 2 × CO2 experiment causes reduction of sea - ice extent by 15 %, with maximum decrease in summer and autumn, consistent with observed seasonal sea - ice changes.
In particular, we aim for a detection of MYI floes in a area composed mostly first - year ice from synthetic aperture radar (SAR), heavily ridged ice regions from SAR, the thickest ice from radar altimeter (RA) thickness profiles, regional anomalies of thick or thin ice via passive microwave (PMW) data, sea ice areas vulnerable for the wave action, detection of early / late melting season and improving capabilities to forecast seasonal sea ice extremes.
A recent study by NSIDC scientists Mark Serreze, Julienne Stroeve, and Alexander Crawford, along with University of Washington scientist Rebecca Woodgate, demonstrates strong links between seasonal sea ice retreat and advance in the Chukchi Sea and the inflow of ocean heat into the region through the Bering Strait.
While the Antarctic seasonal sea ice minimum was unremarkable (slightly earlier, and slightly lower, than the 37 - year average), the sea ice maximum occurred early (August 31), followed by a period of rapid ice extent decline.
This result bodes well for future seasonal sea ice Outlooks.
SIZRS is a coordinated program of repeated ocean, ice, and atmospheric measurements across the Beaufort - Chukchi sea seasonal sea ice zone (SIZ) utilizing US Coast Guard Arctic Domain Awareness (ADA) flights of opportunity.
Variability, trends, and predictability of seasonal sea ice retreat and advance in the Chukchi Sea.
While this is logical in winter, when sea ice exists on the oceans and snow cover exists on land surfaces, it is not logical during the summer, when seasonal sea ice melt exposes the open ocean, and when snow melt exposes land surface.
Changing seasonal sea ice predictor relationships in a changing Arctic climate.
Seasonal sea ice projections for this summer could be improved by including measurements of pools of water that collect on top of sea ice as it melts
However, the new findings show that in the last glacial period in the seasonal sea - ice zone, which was twice as large as it is today, the water was well mixed to a depth of a few hundred metres.
«We can demonstrate that during the last glacial period, the water column in the area of the seasonal sea - ice zone was more mixed in autumn and winter than previously thought,» says Dr Andrea Abelmann, from the Alfred Wegener Institute.
«Our findings show that changes in the ecosystem in the area of the seasonal sea - ice zone in the Southern Ocean contributed to CO2 storage,» says Abelman, summing up the geologists» and modellers» findings.
«This weakening is revealed by a characteristic spatial and seasonal sea - surface temperature «fingerprint»,» Stefan Rahmstorf, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and colleagues wrote in one of the studies published in the journal Nature.
The seasonal sea temperature changes caused by the summer Monsoon and rich marine food supplies (Sardines & Euphasids) enables both breeding and feeding within the same body of water.
Seasonal sea surface cooling in the equatorial Pacific cold tongue controlled by ocean mixing
It seems clear that the SSTAs are a function of seasonal sea ice loss at the surface.
Currently the federal government is asking Shell to stop operations 38 days before the seasonal sea ice would arrive to make certain an oil spill doesn't occur at the end of the season.
Seasonal sea ice changes in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica, over the period of 1979 - 2014.
for article Corrigendum: The seasonal sea - ice zone in the glacial Southern Ocean as a carbon sink.
for article The seasonal sea - ice zone in the glacial Southern Ocean as a carbon sink.
«This weakening is revealed by a characteristic spatial and seasonal sea - surface temperature «fingerprint»,» Stefan Rahmstorf, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and colleagues wrote in one of the studies published in the journal Nature.
The fourth core, Core PS2138 - 2, is located at the Barents Sea continental margin, an area with a seasonal sea ice cover and a strong influence of warm Atlantic Water inflow today (Fig. 1; ca. 4/10 summer sea ice concentration).

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