Sentences with phrase «spring ice melt»

The most striking result, researchers said, is the consistent trend across all polar bear regions for an earlier spring ice melt and a later fall freeze - up.

«It will not only melt the ice in the summer, but delay the onset of fall ice formation and accelerate the onset of spring ice melting.»

Not exact matches

Spring has started to melt a way through the giant frozen expanse of this archipelago in western Finland, as cracks in the ice turn into rust - coloured pools around wooden jetties in a sign of the coming summer.

Suzette's Ultimate Turtle Cheesecake Crust: 1-3/4 cup (1-1/2 pkgs) Chocolate Graham Crackers (crushed) 1/3 cup Margarine (melted) Filling: 3 - 8 oz pkgs Cream Cheese 1 can Sweetened Condensed Milk 1/2 cup Sugar 3 Eggs 3 Tbls Lemon Juice 1 Tbl Vanilla 3/4 cup Chocolate Chips topping: 1/4 C. mini chocolate chips 1/2 C. caramel ice cream topping 1/2 C. hot fudge ice cream topping 1/4 C. chopped pecans Directions: • Mix graham cracker crumbs and butter in bowl with fork & press into bottom & 1-1/2 inches up sides of spring form pan.

It seems like just yesterday I was melting away down in Phoenix, slurping Italian ice as I watched the A's for spring training.

By Spring Break, the ice has melted and the park's signature waterfalls are back in force.

A new University of Washington study, with funding and satellite data from NASA and other agencies, finds a trend toward earlier sea ice melt in the spring and later ice growth in the fall across all 19 polar bear populations, which can negatively impact the feeding and breeding capabilities of the bears.

Satellite data show that, between 1979 and 2013, the summer ice - free season expanded by an average of 5 to 10 weeks in 12 Arctic regions, with sea ice forming later in the fall and melting earlier in the spring.

That's important, she said, because cloud cover influences when in spring sea ice begins melting.

If the Dry Valleys ice melts, entirely new life forms could spring up.

The feedback loop begins with warmer Arctic springs and summers, which cause more sea ice to melt each summer.

Serreze explains that the ice refreezes in winter, but by the time spring arrives, the remaining layer is thinner, so it melts faster.

Davis likens the technique to flying over a frozen river where you can see static patterns formed by the ice while also detecting flowing liquid water — and doing it over and over through the spring as the frozen waterway gradually melts.

This created hot springs that flowed to the surface and melted ice there.

Some scientists have argued that Earth's crust in northern portions of North America is still slowly springing upward in response to the melting of the ice sheet that smothered the region during the last ice age.

Instead, the main source of the clamor occurs when bubbles disengage from the melting glacier and suddenly spring back into their original spherical shapes after thousands of years of being squeezed by the ice.

But this year, a big spring meltdown in October and November suddenly reversed that trend and has led to continued record low sea ice levels as the summer melt season progressed.

The sea ice that caps the Arctic Ocean naturally waxes and wanes with the seasons, reaching its maximum area at the end of winter, before the reemergence of the sun in spring starts off the melt season.

The spring melt began a month earlier than normal, and though the pace of decline slowed some over the summer, the Bering and Chukchi Seas along Alaska's coast remained ice - free longer into the fall than ever before.

Since IPCC (2001) the cryosphere has undergone significant changes, such as the substantial retreat of arctic sea ice, especially in summer; the continued shrinking of mountain glaciers; the decrease in the extent of snow cover and seasonally frozen ground, particularly in spring; the earlier breakup of river and lake ice; and widespread thinning of antarctic ice shelves along the Amundsen Sea coast, indicating increased basal melting due to increased ocean heat fluxes in the cavities below the ice shelves.

The record low maximum doesn't necessarily guarantee a record - low summer sea ice minimum, though, as ice melt depends heavily on Arctic weather patterns through the spring and summer months.

Specifically, increasing the snow albedo delayed the melting of snow and sea ice in spring, which increased the albedo difference to the experiment in which snow grains were assumed spherical.

The ice is finally melted on the bike path near our house which means it's time for spring running.

While you wait for the ice to melt, here are a few tips to give your OkCupid profile some spring flare:

The wolf boy, the wild child, the strange feral creature appeared early one spring as the iced - over streams started to crack and the blown snow on the steppes was melting.

Intended to help the Allies strike German U-boats far out in the Atlantic Ocean, the ice ship proved seaworthy, but the plan was scrapped — and its prototype melted with the spring thaw.

The ice bar and guest rooms are decorated with hand - carved ice sculptures and packed snow art crafted by local artists; though the hotel and its art might melt in the spring, the memory of your trip will be one that lasts for a lifetime.

Sited in a nineteenth - century water pumping station in East London and made simply from slabs of ice stacked around an inner core of rock salt, the sculpture melted over a period of three months in spring 1996.

If the Spring losses are not due to weather but are due to some other factor then they hold open the possibility that increasing and maintained Spring losses could be enough to increase the overall melt season loss so as to leave the Arctic virtually sea ice free by September.

Qualitative indicators like sea ice coverage, spring thaw dates, and melting permafrost provide strong additional evidence that trends have been positive at middle and high northern latitudes, while glacier retreat suggests warming aloft at lower latitudes.

I want to note the early Melt aspect of 2008, which is a match with the late now defunct «big blue» skies which was an extraordinary event of continuous cloud free skies which lasted several months, well before spring, giving a greater ice extent at least on the North American side of the Pole, what «big blue» gaveth «big blue» taketh away.....

With the Arctic melting season over for 2008, ice cover will continue to increase until melting begins anew next spring.

He further cites scientific results which show that in some places, snow and ice have increased in the past weeks, counter to climatologists» claims that they should be melting away in the spring sun.

Between the spring of 2004 (above) and last spring (below), an expanding region of melting snow and ice in Greenland has unburied a research camp.

Dr. Bitz's thread here on Arctic sea ice melt described models of a fairly pessimistic expectation, last spring.

For example, lake and river ice is melting earlier in the spring and forming later in the fall.

New research by scientists in the US confirms that each of the 19 known populations of Ursus maritimus is increasingly affected by the earlier sea ice melt in the Arctic spring, and the later arrival of ice every autumn.

Even though the Arctic sea ice melted to a record low this summer, the ice happened to be exceptionally thick this spring in several areas where Shell held leases.

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Currently, the NASA IceBridge mission supplies both sea ice thickness and snow depth measurements in spring, providing timely information on the state of the ice cover as the melt season begins.

And remember, the satellite data are one small part of a vast amount of data that overwhelmingly show our planet is warming up: retreating glaciers, huge amounts of ice melting at both poles, the «death spiral» of arctic ice every year at the summer minimum over time, earlier annual starts of warm weather and later starts of cold weather, warming oceans, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, more extreme weather, changing weather patterns overall, earlier snow melts, and lower snow cover in the spring...

In spring, however, cloudy conditions begin to dominate, causing temperatures to warm on average and move the ice closer to its melting temperature, even before the newly risen Sun is strong enough to matter.

We revisited the SHEBA dataset, focusing first on the Arctic winter when there is no sunlight and the ice is too cold to melt, to understand how winter weather «prepares» the sea ice for the spring melt season.

The ’14 September sea - ice extent is correlated with ’14 melt - pond area in spring, which is correlated with the ’13 September sea - ice extent, which ultimately is correlated with an independent variable: solar energy.

They recently coauthored a paper entitled September Arctic sea - ice minimum predicted by spring melt - pond fraction.

They found find that the Arctic sea - ice minimum can be accurately forecasted from melt - pond area in spring with a strong correlation between the spring pond fraction and September sea - ice extent.

I don't think those models have the resolution to capture the ice, the melt water and the fog coming out of those polynyas we get when the wind blows towards the North in late spring and early summer.

When spring arrives, the ice begins to slowly melt, much as it did when it began to grow.

According to the press release: «This trio of images shows changes between 1979 and 2007 in the average date of melt onset in the spring (left), the first autumn freeze (center), and the total average increase in the length of the Arctic sea ice melt season.

You can't fake spring coming earlier, or trees growing higher up on mountains, or glaciers retreating for kilometres up valleys, or shrinking ice cover in the Arctic, or birds changing their migration times, or permafrost melting in Alaska, or the tropics expanding, or ice shelves on the Antarctic peninsula breaking up, or peak river flow occurring earlier in summer because of earlier snowmelt, or sea level rising faster and faster, or any of the thousands of similar examples.