Sentences with phrase «see the sea ice»

February has seen sea ice continue to trend in record low territory.

In the winter, one now sees sea ice along the eastern coast of Greenland above 70 ° N, but not along the Norwegian coast.

To learn more about sea ice basics, see the sea ice fact sheet.

Ground - based observations in the Bering Sea indicate below - normal ice thickness this spring (see the Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook).

You can see the sea ice rate of decrease change to a faster rate beginning in 1998 and then 10 years later grind to a halt when the recent back - back La Ninas took hold.

See the Sea Ice Index documentation for further information.

Locals see the sea ice forming later each year, the coast eroding and the permafrost melting.

To learn more about studying sea ice, see All About Sea Ice: Studying; to explore the satellite - derived sea ice images, see the Sea Ice Index.

See Sea Ice Products at NSIDC to learn more about our data holdings.

With the exception of the Bering Sea, none of the areas have seen sea ice extents as low as in the past decade.

See sea ice graphs.

For more details, see the Sea Ice Index.

These include such important topics as sea level rise and sea ice decline (see the sea ice and sea level chapters of the Copenhagen Diagnosis), where the data show that things are changing faster than the IPCC expected.

Not exact matches

All of that has led scientists to see that the glaciers are losing almost 23 feet of ice each year and the specific glaciers studied all contribute to sea levels around the world into the Amudsen Ssea levels around the world into the Amudsen SeaSea.

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They would waddle and fall, waddle and slide, and little by little they came all the way over to see our massive ship wedged in the sea ice.

They saw the expected soot, sea salt, and plenty of local dust inside the liquid droplets, but those things rarely had ice associated with them.

Tourists come to see the collection of marine life, including dolphins and sea eagles, that live in the ice floating down from Russia.

As the Arctic summers are getting warmer we may see an acceleration of global warming, because reduced sea ice in the Arctic will remove less CO2 from the atmosphere, Danish scientists report.

Never mind that this summer saw a record - breaking meltdown of Arctic sea ice, presaging rising sea levels and more extremely weird weather.

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Says Chad Jay, the report's lead author: «We're really in a phase of trying to see how the walruses respond to reduced sea ice conditions.

The result: Surface temperatures increased rapidly, especially in the Arctic, which saw its September sea ice cover shrink by 25 percent.

The data to assess sea - ice coverage come from polar - orbiting satellites carrying passive - microwave sensors that can see through clouds.

Consequently we will see increase in the ice - sheet contribution to global sea - level rise.

«You don't see it, like glaciers and snow and sea ice,» says Jerry Brown, retired geocryologist and president of the International Permafrost Association.

«The loss of sea ice in the Arctic and changes to heat storage will lead to changes in weather patterns that could bring extreme heat and cold events to the continental United States similar to those seen in recent years, and possibly even more intense.»

Today, sea ice is melting rapidly, and in the last decades we have seen the tree line moving north into the Arctic tundra.

There have been hints that there's more biological productivity in the Arctic Ocean than once suspected (perhaps helped along by climate change): In 2012, scientists reported seeing massive blooms of algae proliferating under the sea ice.

The biggest waves seen in northern sea ice show how this vital cover can be crushed much faster than expected

May and June this year also saw record low sea ice levels, though the decline eased off in July.

«So you see something in this one 4,000 - square - kilometer basin off the northeast coast of Venezuela, but you see similar changes in the Arabian Sea and in the tropical Pacific, and you can link it all back to changes seen in an ice sheet in Greenland.

«We need an integrated monitoring of sea ice, tundra, glaciers, and other parameters north of 50 ° latitude» to detect early signals of climate change, says Johannessen (see Map).

The biggest changes were seen in West Antarctica, where more than a fifth of the ice sheet has retreated across the sea floor faster than the pace of deglaciation.

This year's maximum extent of Arctic sea ice, reached March 7 (shown), is the smallest peak extent ever seen.

«For example, in some parts of the Arctic, such as the Chukchi Sea, polar bears appear healthy, fat and reproducing well — this may be because this area is very ecologically productive, so you can lose some ice before seeing negative effects on bears.

If we compare the ice thickness map of the previous winter with that of 2012, we can see that the current ice conditions are similar to those of the spring of 2012 — in some places, the ice is even thinner,» Dr Marcel Nicolaus, sea ice physicist at AWI, said today at a press conference during the EGU General Assembly in Vienna.

A cloud front can be seen in the lower left, and dark areas indicate regions of open water between sea ice formations.

Dr Screen said: «The results of the computer model suggest that melting Arctic sea ice causes a change in the position of the jet stream and this could help to explain the recent wet summers we have seen.

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

The study compared weather patterns during low sea ice conditions as seen in recent years to weather patterns during high sea ice conditions typical of the late 1970s.

Although we will not see immediate effects by tomorrow — some of the slow processes will only respond over centuries to millennia — the consequences for long - term ice melt and sea level rise could be substantial.

«Although we haven't been able to detect a strong El Niño impact on Arctic sea ice yet, now that the ice is thinner and more mobile, we should begin to see a larger response to atmospheric events from lower latitudes.»

The formation of coastal sea ice, seen here in the Arctic Ocean, plays an important role in driving «overturning circulation» in the North Pacific Ocean.

«This year is the fourth lowest, and yet we haven't seen any major weather event or persistent weather pattern in the Arctic this summer that helped push the extent lower as often happens,» said Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Antarctic sea ice saw an early maximum extent in 2016, followed by a very rapid loss of ice starting in early September.

The growth of Antarctic sea ice in the winter exhibits more short - term ups and downs (seen as wiggles on the graphs charting the growth) than Arctic sea ice does, and so the Antarctic maximum takes longer to emerge from the noise.

Those same lakes, along with other evidence from around the world, also points to the shifting of rain belts after a rapid loss of Arctic sea ice about 14,600 years ago that saw the Northern Hemisphere heat up faster than the Southern.

This line marks a deep ocean channel that remained water - filled even during past ice ages, when sea levels saw channels between other islands in the region dry out.

The sea ice reached its maximum winter extent unusually early this year and has been falling fast, to a new record low for this time of year (see graph below).