Sentences with phrase «several ice experts»

Yesterday, several ice experts, including William Chapman of the University of Illinois, Marika Holland at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Walt Meier at the Boulder ice center, said that cloudier weather had prevented early - summer heating and that the strong winds that opened big stretches of water last year were not repeated this summer.

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Several experts said it was not plausible from the get - go, but for the sake of due diligence, I queried a heap of the Arctic oceanographers and climate and ice experts I've gotten to know since my North Pole journey in 2003.

It doesn't seem so, at least according to the long list of Arctic experts I interviewed this fall, including several like Igor Polyakov of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who for years were reluctant to call recent Arctic warming and ice retreats unique in recent history.

Worse, beginning in the 1960s, several glacier experts warned that part of the Antarctic ice sheet seemed unstable.

I'm an engineer, but I worked in a NOAA research vessel (needed money for college), took three Oceanography courses, have experience running large scale gridded dynamic models, have been involved in research to establish paramerization parameters for our models, and worked for several years in the Arctic together with a team of climatologists and «ice experts».

Newer computer models that scientists are using to help prepare the next IPCC report, which is scheduled to be released in 2014, do a much better job capturing the historical sea ice trends than the previous generation of models did, several sea ice experts told Climate Central.