Sentences with phrase «thinner ice pack»

«Polar bears are having to make their decisions about how to move and where to go on thinner ice pack that's mostly first - year ice.»

But accelerating the export of ice in winter depletes the Arctic Ocean of older thicker ice, leaving the extent of the thinner ice pack more sensitive to summer melt.

N - ICE2015 scientists monitored interactions of the thinner ice pack with storms using a combination of buoys that measured wave action in the ice pack and satellite observations.

To answer these questions, the team was primarily interested in observing the ocean heat content, vertical mixing of the ocean heat toward the sea ice, and how sunlight penetrated the ice and snow and contributed to melting of the thinner ice pack.

What really strikes me is how vulnerable the thinner ice pack is.

«Warm ocean waters helped contribute to ice losses this year, pushing the already thin ice pack over the edge,» said Meier.

Based on last year's estimate, the initial condition change (thinning the ice pack by 60 cm) did appear to have improved the model's behavior and skill.

The initial conditions were modified from real time CFSv2 initial conditions by thinning the ice pack, similar to what we did in making our 2011 and 2012 sea ice outlook (SIO) estimate.

These were modified from the CFS v2.0 initial conditions by thinning the ice pack by 60 cm — the thickness which we used as a cutoff in making our 2010 SIO estimates.

Not exact matches

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To help the bump go down, wrap an ice pack (or a bag of frozen peas, in a pinch) in a thin towel or diaper and hold it on the bump for two to five minutes at a time, off and on, for an hour.

A big «hole» appeared in August in the ice pack in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, north of Alaska, when thinner seasonal ice surrounded by thicker, older ice melted.

Wrap an ice pack (or a bag of frozen peas) in a thin towel and put on your neck for not more than 15 minutes at a time.

On the quest, the men must endure grueling weather, thin ice, and a hungry pack of wolves.

Apply an ice pack wrapped in a thin towel to the scrotum for 10 minutes, 3 times a day for the next few days.

Troy Baker is an exceptional voice actor, having made me cry already with the scene from TLOU about «treading on thin ice», who combines with Nolan Drake, sorry North, to give a power packed performance.

In the past (pre-1990s) this low would have just spread the ice pack out and increased sea ice extent, but with how thin the ice is, this just allows heat to melt the scattered ice from all sides and have a bigger impact on sea ice extent.

Younger and thinner ice now allows a more rapid transit of floes through the pack.

The Arctic ice pack is thinning, and in many years there is also a seasonal hole in the ozone layer.

The thinner wintertime ice combined with strengthened southerlies in spring promotes an earlier break - up of the ice pack in the Eurasian coastal region, resulting in significant sea ice export.

However, the arctic ice pack remains substantially younger, thinner, and more mobile than prior to 2005.

The Beaufort ice pack has been getting younger, and therefore thinner, since the 1990s.

An arctic ice pack that consists mostly of first - and second - year rather than multi-year sea ice, implies a thinner, more mobile ice cover relative to conditions five or more years ago.

The Arctic ice pack, according to the clip, remains «young and thin,» and is more susceptible to melting during summer months than the thicker, strong ice pack recorded during the 1980s.

The fracturing progressed through relatively weak, thin, year - old pack ice during February, as seen in a series of images from the NSIDC.

She stated, «With the pack ice retreating further and further north every year, they tend to be stuck on land where there's not much food,» and «many times I have seen horribly thin bears, and those were exclusively females — like this one here» and «Only once I have seen a bear getting a big fat «5,» but several times I have seen dead bears and bears like this one: a mere «1» on the scale, doomed to death.»

This condition is likely due to the thinning and extra mobility in the European section of the central Arctic ice pack seen in recent years.

But as the ice pack thins, it becomes more sensitive to outside forces, they warn in the Journal of Geophysical Research, where they reported their results Aug. 4.

Meanwhile, they said in interviews and in the summary, evidence of increasing warming has shown up in retreating glaciers, thinning polar sea ice, retreating snow packs, warmer nights, and elsewhere.

A big «hole» appeared in August in the ice pack in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, north of Alaska, when thinner seasonal ice surrounded by thicker, older ice melted.

Quinzee — very common as it can be constructed quickly even from only a thin layer of snow (igloos need thick packed snow or else ice).