Understanding such processes, though, is «critically important to understanding the climate of the earth» because of
the way sea ice formation works as the initial driver of the global ocean «conveyor belts», Dr Lieser said.
Not exact matches
Serreze says monitoring
sea -
ice formation, or lack thereof, has become an important indicator of the relatively rapid warming under
way in the Arctic.
Weyl built on this to develop a theory of the
ice ages, involving the
way changes of saltiness might affect the
formation of
sea ice.