Sentences with phrase «substantial ice retreat»

Updated information about ice extent in this region indicates substantial ice retreat in the eastern Barents and the Kara Seas, where ice is now well below climatological extent (Figure 5), with little change in the Greenland Sea and Fram Strait region, where the ice edge is within the decadal mean range except for the southernmost stretches shown in Figure 5.

In an email message earlier this month, Dr. Rigor confirmed that this appeared to be playing out as predicted and projected a couple of summer seasons with less substantial ice retreats:

Not exact matches

And she describes sobering trends: The projection that Switzerland will lose more than half of its small glaciers in the next 25 years; the substantial retreat of glaciers from the Antarctic, Patagonia, the Himalayas, Greenland and the Arctic; the disappearance of iconic glaciers in Glacier National Park, Montana, or reduction to chunks of ice that no longer move (by definition, a glacier must be massive enough to move).

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.

1400 — 1549 the pre-culmination period of the Little Ice Age 1550 — 1849, the culmination period which contains the «years without a summer» 1850 — 1967, the post-culmination period in which a definite retreat of glaciers and substantial atmospheric warming occurred.

At the same time, substantial and early ice retreat in the Kara Sea (see contribution by Gerland et al., below) has resulted in favorable shipping conditions along the Northern Sea Route (NSR).