Sentences with phrase «seasonal sea ice»

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
Variability, trends, and predictability of seasonal sea ice retreat and advance in the Chukchi Sea.
Seasonal sea ice retreat in 2012 began with a major reduction event in early June (Figure 2) associated with persistent high pressure over the Beaufort Sea and low pressure over the Kara Sea, now referred to as the Arctic Dipole (AD) weather pattern (see discussion of the AD in previous Outlooks).
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.
SIZRS will make oceanographic profile measurements as part of a larger multidisciplinary effort to track and understand the changing seasonal sea ice zone (SIZ) of the Beaufort and Chukchi seas..
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.
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.
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.
It seems clear that the SSTAs are a function of seasonal sea ice loss at the surface.
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.
Changing seasonal sea ice predictor relationships in a changing Arctic climate.
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.
• Study daily / seasonal sea ice edge movement and Arctic / Antarctic ice pack changes.
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
Seasonal sea ice changes in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica, over the period of 1979 - 2014.
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.
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).
Blanchard - Wrigglesworth, E., R. I. Cullather, W. Wang, J. Zhang, and C. M. Bitz, Model forecast skill and sensitivity to initial conditions in the seasonal Sea Ice Outlook, Geophys.
Interestingly, in the Seasonally Ice - free Zone (SIZ, the band located between the winter and summer sea ice edge), this production is highly stimulated by increased iron availability due to the seasonal sea ice retreat.
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