Sentences with phrase «thinner younger ice»

«I wonder whether over all the trend towards thinner younger ice may have resulted in a net underestimation rather than overestimation of the area of multiyear ice.

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Until Burke unloads the game's fastest skater for, presumably, a slew of young talent, Vancouver takes the ice with one of the league's thinnest rosters.

In addition to disappearing sea ice, the ice that does remain is also getting younger and thinner.

It may sound like a gimmick to have Ice Cube's son playing Ice Cube — and damned if he doesn't look exactly like a younger, thinner version of his dad — but he's also got the glare and the swagger down cold, and he more than rises to this formidable challenge in both the dramatic moments and the stage performances.

Thinner, young sea ice is more susceptible to being compressed by wind than is older, thicker sea ice.

However, the ice is still much younger and thinner than it was in the 1980s, leaving it vulnerable to melt during the summer.

Sea ice in the Arctic is now dominated by younger, thinner ice, which is vulnerable to melting, said NSIDC.

Typically, during a positive phase of the AO, surface winds push ice away from the shores of Siberia, and any young, thin ice that is subsequently formed is prone to melting in summer.

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

A new NASA study revealed that the oldest and thickest Arctic sea ice is disappearing at a faster rate than the younger and thinner ice at the edges of the Arctic Ocean's floating ice cap.

Let's see how that young thin ice is doing.

The rapid warming and increased solar radiation absorption have combined to result in younger, thinner Arctic sea ice, which therefore melts more easily, making record low extents more likely to occur.

New University of Colorado at Boulder calculations indicate the record low minimum extent of sea ice across the Arctic last September has a three - in - five chance of being shattered again in 2008 because of continued warming temperatures and a preponderance of younger, thinner ice.

«The current Arctic ice cover is thinner and younger than at any previous time in our recorded history, and this sets the stage for rapid melt and a new record low,» said Research Associate Sheldon Drobot, who leads CCAR's Arctic Regional Ice Forecasting System group in CU - Boulder's aerospace engineering sciences departmeice cover is thinner and younger than at any previous time in our recorded history, and this sets the stage for rapid melt and a new record low,» said Research Associate Sheldon Drobot, who leads CCAR's Arctic Regional Ice Forecasting System group in CU - Boulder's aerospace engineering sciences departmeIce Forecasting System group in CU - Boulder's aerospace engineering sciences department.

«Meteorological conditions in a thinner Arctic sea ice regime from winter to summer during the Norwegian Young Sea Ice expedition (N - ICE2015).&raqice regime from winter to summer during the Norwegian Young Sea Ice expedition (N - ICE2015).&raqIce expedition (N - ICE2015).&raqICE2015).»

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.

Those low years were due in part to the loss of older sea ice, which was replaced by younger (hence thinner) ice that was more susceptible to summer melt.

Comparatively large areas of rather thin, young ice therefore characterize the situation at the beginning of the melt season in spring 2008.

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.

Wind and ocean circulation patterns are conspiring with a warmer climate to reduce the amount of year - round (multi-year) ice, transforming the remaining ice into a younger, thinner version of its old self.

The oldest and thickest Arctic ice seems to be vanishing faster than the younger, thinner ice at the edges of the Arctic Ocean's floating ice cap, a new NASA study finds.

«The youngest, thinnest ice, which has survived only one or two melt season, now makes up 80 percent of the ice cover,» the NSIDC said in its statement.

During the 2002 and 2003 summers this anomalously younger, thinner ice was advected into Alaskan coastal waters where extensive melting was observed, even though temperatures were locally colder than normal.

During the high - AO years that follow (1991 and on), this younger thinner sea ice is shown to recirculated back to the Alaskan coast where extensive open water has been observed during summer.

Under these conditions, younger, thinner ice anomalies recirculate back to the Alaskan coast more quickly, decreasing the time that new ice has to ridge and thicken before returning for another melt season.

He said the book, the tale of a fictional young Arctic villager who becomes aware of global warming when his dogsled crashes through thinning ice, relies on disputed science.

This flushed older, thicker ice out of the Arctic, leaving the region with younger, thinner ice that was more prone to summer melting.

Arctic sea ice has not only been shrinking in surface area in recent years, it's becoming younger and thinner as well.

«We're seeing an ice cover that's younger and that's thinner as we head into summer,» Walt Meier, a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, said in a telephone news conferenice cover that's younger and that's thinner as we head into summer,» Walt Meier, a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, said in a telephone news conferenIce Data Center, said in a telephone news conference.

«April 6, 2009 Arctic sea ice younger, thinner as melt season begins.