Sentences with phrase «thinner than in past years»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Over the past five years a handful of these companies have invested $ 3 billion in factories to build flat screens, and in April NEC announced that it had produced a thin screen measuring 33 cm in diagonal that displays full - colour pictures with a finer definition than those produced by conventional televisions with cathode - ray tubes (CRT).

Despite being more aesthetically pleasing than Michael Bay's garishly executed Pearl Harbour, Nolan's big film in service of a small story has more in common with that much - maligned war pic than more serious minded award season contenders of past years like Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Peter Weir's Gallipoli or Terence Malick's The Thin Red Line.

This year's thinner, slushier ice is more vulnerable than the past's thick, multi-year ice, and it melts out rapidly during a spike in temperature or intense cyclonic activity.