Sentences with phrase «third year ice»

However, the past couple years, each summer has retained a fair amount of first - year ice (which ages into second year, and now third year ice).

Not exact matches

12 years after «Barbershop 2: Back in Business,» Ice Cube and Cedric the Entertainer reunited for a third film in the series but not even Nicki Minaj's presence could help the sequel.

Parent company Ramar Foods is a third - generation - owned family business, and has been making tropical ice creams for over 40 years in Northern California.

Satellites aren't built to last forever, so it's not a big surprise that the third and last laser on NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) quit working on October 11, outlasting its designed mission length by three and a half years.

(By September, the Arctic area covered by sea ice was the third - lowest recorded since 1979 — the other record years were 2007 and 2008.)

Pine Island Glacier and the neighbouring Thwaites Glacier are responsible for nearly a third of total ice loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and this contribution has increased greatly over the past 25 yeaice loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and this contribution has increased greatly over the past 25 yeaIce Sheet, and this contribution has increased greatly over the past 25 years.

Ice at the bottom of the borehole was deposited about 70,000 years ago; ice about one - sixth of the way up about 50,000 years ago; and ice about one - third of the way to the surface 20,000 years aIce at the bottom of the borehole was deposited about 70,000 years ago; ice about one - sixth of the way up about 50,000 years ago; and ice about one - third of the way to the surface 20,000 years aice about one - sixth of the way up about 50,000 years ago; and ice about one - third of the way to the surface 20,000 years aice about one - third of the way to the surface 20,000 years ago.

In comparison, global sea levels are rising by about 3 millimetres a year, and a recent study estimated that one - third of that comes from ice loss in Antarctica and Greenland.

Arctic sea ice has hit a record low for the third year in a row.

During the first two - thirds of the Quaternary, the ice advanced and retreated roughly every 41,000 years — the same tempo as the changes in the tilt of Earth's axis.

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.

One large group dates to around 3,700 years ago; another to around 900 years ago; and a third to around A.D. 1450, corresponding to a cold period known as the Little Ice Age.

Those high temperatures have kept Arctic sea ice to record low levels; the Arctic looks to see a record low winter maximum sea ice area for the third year in a row.

Yet another theory has been advanced by Peter Huybers who argued that the 41,000 - year cycle has always been dominant, but that the Earth has entered a mode of climate behavior where only the second or third cycle triggers an ice age.

For the third year in a row, Antarctica's sea ice is set to smash a new record this month.

The fourth Ice Age flick is scheduled to arrive in theaters on July 13th, 2012; that is very close to three years exactly after the release of the third installment, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.

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Vin Diesel resurrects extreme sports secret agent Xander Cage for this belated third entry in the xXx franchise, 12 years after Ice Cube last carried the torch for counter-culture covert operatives.

The icing on the anecdotal cake came in the summer of 2003 with news that a Massachusetts superintendent of education, Wilfredo Laboy, had failed - for the third year in a row - a literacy test that the state's high school seniors needed to pass in order to graduate.

Well, I think the Ice Climbers will be announced as the third DLC character at this year's E3, completely separate from the Smash Fighter Ballot.

Prior to sitting down to write out this review for Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice, the third Sonic Boom game and the second to appear on the Nintendo 3DS, I told myself I would not fall into the reviewers trap of carting out some year that pinpoints when the Sonic series «went bad».

Steven C. Amstrup, the federal biologist who led an analysis last year concluding that the world's polar bear population could shrink two thirds by 2050 under moderate projections for retreating summer sea ice, is once again in the field along Alaska's Arctic coast, studying this year's brood of cubs, yearlings and mothers.

13 (Danny Bloom) It's actually a very interesting horse race with this year's ice extent still two thirds of a million square kilometers more than last year at this same time.

In March 2017, the annual maximum extent of Arctic sea ice hit a record low for the third straight year, according to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centice hit a record low for the third straight year, according to the US National Snow and Ice Data CentIce Data Centre.

litesong wrote: The 2017 Arctic sea ice is increasing its chances that its sea ice maximum will remain below 14 million square kilometers, becoming the third year IN A ROW to remain under the mark, as NO OTHER YEAR BEFORE 2015 HAS EVER DONE IN THE SATELLITE RECyear IN A ROW to remain under the mark, as NO OTHER YEAR BEFORE 2015 HAS EVER DONE IN THE SATELLITE RECYEAR BEFORE 2015 HAS EVER DONE IN THE SATELLITE RECORD.

The Arctic's sea ice pack thawed to its third - lowest summer level on record, up slightly from the seasonal melt of the past two years but continuing an overall decline symptomatic of climate change, U.S. scientists said on Thursday.

There have only been three coldhouse periods (i.e. with ice at the poles) in the past 550 million years (the time that multi-cell animal life has been thriving on the planet) and we are in the third one now.

NSIDC stated that the 2010 season showed an increase in second - and third - year ice — which might eventually thicken — but the oldest and thickest ice had mostly disappeared from the Arctic.

The forecast by researchers at CU - Boulder's Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research is based on satellite data and temperature records and indicates there is a 59 percent chance the annual minimum sea ice record will be broken this fall for the third time in five years.

-- The third, being the observed destabilization of the geosphere due to both the pace of terrestrial ice loss and relatively sudden and uneven climatic redistribution of the oceans» mass, with a consequent rise in seismic events and in volcanoes» cooling sulphate emissions, which have (according to Prof. McGuire, adviser to Munich Re on vulcanism risks) accelerated slowly on a 1.25 % / yr trend over the last 30 years.

In this way, a negative AO could help retain some the second - and third - year ice through the winter, and potentially rebuild some of the older, multiyear ice that has been lost over the past few years.

Third, the ice core data how conclusively that, during natural climate cycling, changes in temperature precede changes in carbon dioxide by an average 800 years or so (Fischer et al, 1999; Indermuhle et al, 2000; Mudelsee, 2001; Caillon et al, 2003); similarly, temperature change precedes carbon dioxide change, in this case by five months, during annual seasonal cycling (Kuo, Lindberg and Thomson, 1990).

Reasoning for an increase in sea ice extent from recent years assumes that the current presence of extensive second - and third - year sea ice that we saw in winter 2009/2010 indicates a build - up of multi-year sea ice and a more stable ice pack.

It was strongly negative in December and February; the February value was the third lowest NAO in160 years, and strong winds in the Bering Sea led to new ice formation.

He says this winter may not set a new record low sea - ice extent for a third consecutive year.

Arctic sea ice in March reached a new record low: the area of frozen ocean at the height of winter on 7 March reached a new maximum low for the third year running, according to NASA scientists.

For an unprecedented third year in a row, Antarctica's sea ice is poised to smash a new winter record, but Arctic summer sea ice hit its sixth lowest minimum.

Small wonder, then, that the modelers» computer «reconstructions» of the planet's past climate conveniently wiped out the well - documented three - centuries - long Medieval Warming Period, as well as the subsequent 500 years of Little Ice Age — nor is it surprising that their terrifying computer prognostications in the IPCC's 2001 Third Assessment failed to predict the next decade's absence of any global warming trend at all.

Oh no, the cycle is obviously 590 years: 1421 (http://www.amazon.com/1421-Year-China-Discovered-America/dp/006054094X) That would put the previous times of ice free passages to A.D. 831 (Vikings found the Iceland), 241 (Roman economic subprime Crisis of the Third Century) and 350 BC (Etruscans get too fat for too good a harvest and get defeated by Romans), 940BC (demise of the Sea Peoples in the Atlantis mountain tops), one just has to read the signs properly.

Arctic sea ice end - of - summer minimum area, although variable from year to year, has plummeted by more than a third in the past few decades, at a faster rate than in most models [21], with the sea ice thickness declining a factor of four faster than simulated in IPCC climate models [22].

In the 10,000 years of the present interglacial period between ice ages, the temperature has been warmer than today about two - thirds of the time.

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this seems to be the third time that we have warmer months near a conference although it might have been on different data sets.the sea ice extent was headed back to median a couple of years ago and then was conveniently hijacked.

For the third year in a row, Antarctica's sea ice is set to smash a new record this month.

About 3 million years ago, during the mid-Pliocene warm period, global temperatures were 2 ° — 3 ° warmer than present, and polar ice extents were about one third smaller, making this period interesting as a comparison to the near future.

For the two summit Law Dome ice cores about a decade, for the more downslope Law Dome ice core ~ 20 years (but the full period for the first two is ~ 150 years before rock bottom was reached, ~ 1000 years for the third one).

In 2010, Arctic sea ice shrank to its third - lowest extent on record, after 2007 and 2008, and also reached what was likely its lowest volume in thousands of years.

The third and last Sea Ice Outlook of this year has been published.