Sentences with phrase «to melt season»

For example, the 2012 record minimum came during the remarkable summer melt season of 2012 and was fueled in part by summer storms that moved ice into warm waters.

It appears to me that the 2011 melt season began with weaker, thinner, less consolidated ice than at any time in recorded history.

This year's arctic ice melt season is generating extraordinary interest.

The sea ice minimum has been occurring later in recent years because of a longer melting season.

The higher latitude seasonal ice cover is also thicker and regions with typically shorter melt seasons can be expected to have a better chance of surviving the summer.

A continuing trend in glacier loss will seriously decrease the water reserves stored as ice, reducing melt season runoff.

And an average melting season nowadays is well below the long - term average, of course.

Stir the butter to coat the pecans evenly while the butter melts season with salt and pepper and set aside.

That puts ice at a disadvantage during the upcoming melt season because it tends to be thinner and more prone to melting.

The importance of a sequence of warm years to prepare the ice for a significant melt season.

In addition, the 2012 melt season produced a surprising area of open water.

This northern area has low accumulation rates, and a shorter less intense melt season.

Many of the forecasts analyzed in the study focused on the state of the ice cover prior to the summer melt season.

That late peak date sets up a shorter - than - normal ice melt season this year.

So, if there is a record melt season, blame it on storms or weather, after the record season, point out the recovery, etc..

Greenland has begun its summer melt season in early April.

A synthesis of scientific sea ice extent projections during Arctic summer, updated monthly during melt season.

The 2016 Arctic melt season started with a record low maximum extent in March, and sea ice was measured at record low monthly extents well into June.

Arctic sea ice extent set a new record low at the end of the summer melt season on September 16, 2012.

Tom Wagner, NASA's Cryosphere Program Manager, explains what happened during the Arctic melting season of 2011, why the polar sea ice is important to the global climate and what is causing it to melt.

So, it's possible that the North America weather has been more favorable for melting this season so far.

Such a comparison will be useful to revisit after melt season 2017, which began with extreme anomalies yet appears to be headed toward a fairly normal conclusion

But this year, a big spring meltdown in October and November suddenly reversed that trend and has led to continued record low sea ice levels as the summer melt season progressed.

I've always said that the current drop in Arctic Ice Extent might have roots in soot from the industrialization of Asia causing an albedo change which really took off in the 1990 ′ s, would show up in the summer melt season when solar irradiance is at a peak in the Arctic.

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With longer melting seasons over the past few years, the algae have more time to bloom and darken the sheet, Tranter says.

NSIDC Senior Scientist Ted Scambos said, «What we've seen this year fits the profile of lengthening melt seasons, which is no surprise.

Box pointed to nearly ice - sheet - wide melting on Greenland, with extensive surface melting documented for first time at the highest elevations of ice sheet, and the longest melt season since satellite observations began in 1979.

It is «inconvenient» in March (during peak ice season) but soothing for them in August (during near peak melt season).

During 2012's record - setting melt season, nearly the entire surface of Greenland melted out for a few weeks in July.

It was the second earliest start of the Greenland melt season on record.

Additionally, it is postulated that the warming climate will likely extend melt seasons, leading to increases in biological activity and thus contributing further to the darkening of glaciers and ice sheets (Benning et al., 2014).

«Earlier full melt season onset, all else equal.»

The study was carried out on the Mittivakkat Glacier in south east Greenland during the summer of 2012, which was the hottest summer and thus the fastest melting season recorded for 150 years.

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Right, when wavelength - integrated albedo is experimentally measured along a transect line over an Arctic melt season time series, the changes observed at an incipient melt pond are indeed dramatic.

Arctic sea ice is in the midst of a record - breaking melt season.

Comparing recent melt seasons with historical records spanning more than 1,400 years shows summer Arctic sea ice in free fall.