Sentences with phrase «shorter melt seasons»

Re # 3, The meltpond predictor seems useful to some extent; a slow start to the melt season implies a shorter melt season.
Is it possible that there is a lower practical bound to ice extent, based on the very short melt season and low angle of the sun near the North Pole?

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Like all giant sequoias, these five have a short growing season and depend on melting snowpack from the Sierra Nevada mountains for many months of the year.
Skirts and shorts with sweaters are such a great alternative at breaking out new finds for the season without risking melting.
From reading the ’11 report we know that the melt season was «short but intense,» and that it started slowly, with the first couple months of the melt season being cold.
the Greenland ice sheet has seen a small positive change in ice for this year, The unusual year is mainly down to heavy snow and rain in winter and a relatively short and intermittent summer melt season.
Apparently the current arctic melt season will be the shortest on record and the melt so far is exactly what climate skeptics expected all along.
This northern area has low accumulation rates, and a shorter less intense melt season.
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