Sentences with phrase «significant melt season»
The importance of a sequence of warm years to prepare the ice for a significant melt season.
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This ought to be especially significant as ice withdraws and the oceans lower albedo leads to more absorption of sunlight earlier in the melt season.
Your comments about first and second year ice notwithstanding, Serreze's comments were about much older ice, and your comments depend on how much first year ice survives the melt season this fall, could be significant, could be not much.
If northern Siberia does not heat up, then the necessary depressions may not form in the northern part of the Urals and the coming melting season could look more like 2007 and 2012 with significant high pressure areas over the sea ice during summer months.
[1] The mid - to late snow season is precisely when significant loss of snow pack is seen at nearly all locations over the past few decades, both through decreases in snow accumulation and increases in snow melt.