Sentences with phrase «thinner ice this year»

«If you had had the conditions of 2007 again with the thinner ice this year there would have been record ice loss,» said Stroeve.

Not exact matches

Deeper into the core the layers thin out due to ice flow and high pressure and eventually individual years can not be distinguished.

Arctic ice, we now know, has thinned 40 percent in the last 40 years.

One is skating on rather thin ice to suggest on the basis of this polite acknowledgement in a preface in 1925 that Morgan at least could have been in any real way instrumental in Whitehead's development of the ideas found years later in NL.12 The case remains to be made with respect to Alexander.

Four years ago, the west suburban Park District joined many municipalities in buying giant plastic liners, which, when spread out on grass and outlined with plywood, can be filled with water that freezes into a thin layer of ice for skating.

In the United Kingdom, Seymour Laxon of University College London used satellite radar to study roughly half the permanent ice cover in the Arctic and found that it has thinned by 12 inches over the last eight years.

A laser altimeter onboard the ICESat satellite had documented the thinning of glaciers feeding into Larsen B and Scar Inlet — as indicated by lowering of the ice surface — but the altimeter had fizzled out earlier that year.

Although the ice cover has increased over the past few years, the Arctic's sea ice is now much thinner than it was just a few years ago, making it more vulnerable to future warming.

Glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula that have lost their ice shelves are indeed thinning at a rapid rate of five to 10 meters a year.

By piecing together an 18 - year record of ice shelf thinning from three different sets of satellite data, the researchers found that some ice shelves in West Antarctica have lost as much as 18 % of their volume in the last 2 decades.

How long these under - ice explosions of life have been going on is uncertain, he adds, because it is not year clear how closely tied the blooms are to the thinning sea ice and proliferating melt ponds caused by global climate change.

But last year, Arrigo and his team noted a proliferation of pools of water, known as melt ponds, on the surface of the Chukchi Sea ice, which were also a few meters thinner than in past years.

Over 25 years, the proportion of the ocean covered by ice at least four years old has dwindled from 26 % to 7 %, while the remaining ice is mainly thin, the product of one winter.

Between 2002 and 2007, satellite measurements showed that ice from the glacier's grounding line, the spot where it transitions from being on the land to in the sea, thinned at a rate of 1.2 meters to 6 meters per year.

Satellite observations also showed that this winter's ice cover is slightly thinner than in recent years.

Together, the meager maximum extent and thin ice could spell trouble for this year's minimum sea ice extent, expected during September.

That's enough to build up thin but detectable ice deposits over 100,000 years or so.

In 2008, 72 % of the winter ice was thin first - year ice — usually it would be about 30 % — opening the possibility that the North Pole would be ice - free for the first time.

NSIDC scientists said there was a lot of thin ice at the beginning of the melt season, because thinner ice does not take as much energy to melt away, this may have also contributed to this year's low minimum extent.

The most plausible explanation of how humans first settled the Americas — Ice Age hunters pursuing game walked from Siberia to Alaska over a land bridge — has gained wide acceptance in recent years, although scientific evidence has been thin at best.

Results published in May show this region crossed an invisible threshold in 2009, with a dozen major glaciers simultaneously starting to thin, sweating off 60 billion tons of ice per year.

Arctic sea ice was also thinner this winter than in the past four years, according to data from the European Space Agency's CryoSat - 2 satellite.

For years the ice has been thinning and retreating more and more during the summer.

Both the area of water covered by sea ice and the thickness of the ice have been decreasing in recent years, and thinner ice is blown farther and faster by the wind.

But the average rate of ice thinning in West Antarctica has also increased, and this sector is now losing almost one third (31 %) as much ice each year than it did during the five year period (2005 - 2010) prior to CryoSat - 2's launch.

Lead author Dr Malcolm McMillan from the University of Leeds said: «We find that ice losses continue to be most pronounced along the fast - flowing ice streams of the Amundsen Sea sector, with thinning rates of between 4 and 8 metres per year near to the grounding lines of the Pine Island, Thwaites and Smith Glaciers.»

These big game hunters spread their Clovis spearpoints — long and thin with distinctive hollows carved into both sides of the base — across the United States and northern Mexico starting about 13,000 years ago, when they arrived via an ice - free corridor through glacier - covered Alaska and western Canada.

Around 14,000 years ago the Earth started warming, and the effects were significant — ice completely left the tops of the mountains in western Canada, and where there were ice sheets, they probably thinned a lot.

In a computer simulation that includes detailed interactions between wind and sea, thick ice — more than 6 feet deep — increased by about 1 percent per year from 1979 to 2010, while the amount of thin ice stayed fairly constant.

After obtaining precise ice shelf height data, the researchers used a regional climate model to work out how much of the variability on a year - to - year basis was due to snowfall (which causes ice shelves to grow taller) versus ocean - driven melting (which causes ice shelves to thin from below).

According to the latest Piomas data, a combination of the smallest sea ice extent and the second - thinnest ice cover on record puts total volume of sea ice in November 2016 at a record low for this time of year.

West Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier, one of the continent's fastest - changing ice streams, looks to be recreating 8,000 - year - old history as it shrinks and thins, a new study suggests.

The passion for neo-noir is alive and well, with Man From Reno taking home the Best Dramatic Feature Prize at the 2014 Los Angeles Film Festival (earlier that same year, Diao Yi» nan's Black Coal, Thin Ice won the top prize in Berlin).

Here's the full list of 142 films that featured on our contributors» ballots: (Disclaimer: Luc Besson's Lucy didn't get a single vote - I just like this image of Scarlett sorting through stuff) 71 1001 Grams 12 Years a Slave 20,000 Days on Earth 22 Jump Street 52 Tuesdays A Girl at my Door A Most Violent Year A Most Wanted Man A Touch of Sin Aberdeen Alleluia American Sniper Birdman Black Coal, Thin Ice Blind Blue Ruin Boyhood Calvary Captain America: The Winter Soldier Casa Grande Chef Citizenfour Climbing to Spring Cold in July Danger 5 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Der Samurai Duke of Burgundy Edge of Tomorrow Electric Boogaloo Enemy Fandry Force Majeure Frank Free Fall From What is Before Giovanni's Island Gone Girl Goodbye to Language Guardians of the Galaxy Haemoo Han Gong - ju Hard to be a God Horse Money Housebound Ida Inherent Vice Interstellar It Follows Jauja Jigarthanda Jodorowsky's Dune John Wick Killers Lady Maiko Les Combattants Leviathan Li'l Quinquin Life Itself Like Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The Best!

While the first half of 2014 produced a number of genuinely impressive Asian films, including The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya, The Raid 2 and Black Coal, Thin Ice, the second half of the year felt a little lacklustre to...

It must be pointed out that the ice has been thinning more appreciatively in west Greenland of late and that ice sheet melting can only contribute a moderate amount of freshwater volume each year.

By the start of this year, there was clearly multi-year ice north of Greenland and the Canadian archipelago, and thin ice everywhere else apart from in a narrow band stretching roughly from NE Greenland to Severnaya Zemlya:

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

(And the average age of all ice never got above single digits) Because most of the thickness increases come in the first couple of years, and most old ice is «old» because it is nearing the end of its natural cycle (where it thins to zero.)

But a Upper air profile from a land station may differ low over sea ice, for the lower atmosphere may be warmer over thinner ice compared with previous years.

This year, I expect that curve to keep at a steep slope for a while longer, as the ice will be very thin and in poor shape.

I agree with Tenney, that thin single - year ice soon will metling away, laste summur scale sea ice melting will repeat.

Along with a more than 42 % decrease in multiyear (MY) ice coverage since 2005, there was a remarkable thinning of ∼ 0.6 m in MY ice thickness over 4 years.

Earlier predictions were also wrong because researchers thought thinner ice would melt faster in subsequent years.

The layers in multi-year ice (mainly formed when sheets of thin first - year ice pancake) do help baby seals, but polar bears happily walk on first - year ice thin enough to see through (don't take my word for it; watch the film Arctic Tale).

The average thickness is usually still falling at this time of year (presumably because thin ice is being added) but it has not yet been calculated for this year.

Negative interactions between polar bears and humans, such as bears foraging in garbage dumps, have historically been more prevalent in years when ice - floe breakup occurred early and polar bears were relatively thin.

My laymans» viewpoint is that as the Arctic ice has thinned (due to global warming, climate change), it has moved to where it only now responds to the weather (will the North Pole be ice free this year?

The key issue is that since last year's dramatic summer ice anomaly, the winter ice that formed in that newly opened water is relatively thin (around 1 meter), compared to multi-year ice (3 meters or so).

When the Skate sailed for the Arctic the following year, the sail had been strengthened to allow it to break through thin ice.