Sentences with phrase «when polar»

Across the Arctic, there has been only a marginal decline in total sea ice extent (Fig. 6) between March and June, the critical spring feeding period when polar bears require the ice as a hunting platform for gorging on young, fat seals.

https://judithcurry.com/2017/01/09/skin-in-the-game/#comment-834593 When polar sea ice has record low extents, there is more snow and cold that follows.

These developments are somewhat antithetical to predictions made in the 90s and 2000s, when the polar vortex was in a strong phase (positive AO).

Furthermore, some sensors can not provide information in winter, when polar darkness prevails.

when you've forgotten about when polar bears used to roam the arctic, don't worry kid, i've got tons of pictures of how they lived — all housed in a datacentre in that building over there....

Bottom line, the positive summer albedo feedback is much bigger when the polar area is an ocean.

In this discussion a cold Wave is when polar air on the poleward side of the Jet Stream covers eastern North America and Western Europe as in Figure 2.

One shows a nonlinear transition to a new stable state in < 10 years when polar temperature rises above − 5 °C (13 °C above present), whereas the other shows a more linear transition.

They based their findings on analysis of the chemical isotopes locked in ancient ice from the Weddell Sea embayment, and the evidence suggests that in the past, when polar waters became more stratified, the ice sheets melted much more quickly.

Conclusions Early ice breakup in summer and / or late freeze - up in fall can not exclusively be blamed when polar bears struggle to get through the ice - free period.

-- DQ Lindsay Abrams — Salon — November 22, 2014 When polar bears attack: How climate change is creating a new breed of unlikely killers As the ice caps melt, -LSB-...]

He says that if the baseline is 1973, when the polar - orbiting satellites began recording the data, there is not much difference between today's ice extent and then.

If you included Polar Ice Cycles in your climate models and included more snowfall when polar oceans are thawed and included less snowfall when polar oceans are frozen, the models would work much better.

When polar air neither retreats nor advances, the polar front is called a stationary front.

Climate warming is reducing availability of their ice habitat, especially in spring when polar bears gain most of their annual fat reserves by consuming seal pups before coming ashore in summer.

When the polar scale of the northern pressure center of the NAO was identified in the late 1990s, the name Arctic Oscillation was introduced to highlight the fact that the pressure anomalies associated with the NAO span most of the Arctic.

Often when the polar vortex is strong, temperatures are mild in the mid-latitudes across the Eastern US and Northern Eurasia; and when the vortex is weak, temperatures tend to be cold across the Eastern US and northern Europe and Asia.

Therefore it is often mild across the Eastern US, Europe and East Asia during winters when the polar vortex is strong.

In fact, Arctic ice growth in the second half of September was rapid and there is now more ice than there was at this date in 2007 and 2012 (when polar bears in those regions considered most at risk did not die off in droves).

Therefore it is cold across the Eastern US, Europe and East Asia during winters when the polar vortex is weak.

This multi-member research team used a new data set (mostly Scandinavian brown bears and Greenland polar bears, for a change) to add not much of anything new on the evolutionary insight front except yet another estimate of when polar bears came to be.1

This is a great read for fall, when polar bear encounter stories abound.

When polar ice melts the earth changes shape: mass (ice) which was concentrated at the poles, with a short arm of inertia, is spread evenly around the ocean surface, averaging something like 63 degrees latitude.

Climate warming is reducing the availability of their ice habitat, especially in the spring when polar bears gain most of their annual fat reserves by consuming seal pups before coming ashore for the summer.

When both polar ocean ice sheaths are tracked together, this year is back below the quarter - century sea - ice average again.

When the polar regions cool the amount of sea ice increases.

Over all, open water has spread in the Arctic this summer nearly as much as it did last summer, when polar experts said the ice cap shrank far more than had been measured since satellites started scanning the region 30 years ago — and probably more than it had shrunk in a century or more.

When the polar vortex warms, the jet stream is pushed south leading to colder winters across the eastern United states and Europe.

When the polar bear come to take a pea, Kick him in the ice hole!

Figuring out what to wear when the polar vortex hits upon us is no easy task as options are limited, but here are 10 minimal winter outfit ideas to beat the cold in comfort and style.

When polar air dipping southward collides with rising warm tropical air, the meet - up causes a powerful atmospheric wave with rollercoaster - like patterns that propagate eastward around the globe.

And it's sad when polar bears have no ice for their food hunt.

An Oasis on Ice Cryoconite was discovered in the late 19th century, when polar explorers noticed the dark grains while trudging across the ice.

When polar bears» feeding opportunities decrease during the summer ice melt, the animals can reduce their energy expenditure a little, but not enough to make up for the food shortages, a study in the 17 July issue of Science shows.

When those polar icebergs become relatively close to the Arabian Peninsula, the weather will change and Arabia will become one of the greenest and wettest parts of the world.

Not exact matches

When England's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) asked the public for name suggestions for their new $ 300 million state - of - the - art polar research vessel, RRS Boaty McBoatface won by a tidal wave.

The two presidential candidates may seem like polar opposites, but it's not always so easy to tell their views apart when it comes to business issues.

This is not a small margin of error, but a nearly polar opposite view illustrating the company's perception and the customer's reality when interacting with that company.

When there's a polar vortex?

Oh yeah, when Noah (being well over 500 years old) has his ship run aground on top of Ararat, how exactly does he then get all the marsupials back to Australia, all the grizzlies back to Western North America, all the polar bears back to the North Pole, all the anacondas back to South America, all the emperor penguins back to Antarctica, etc, etc, etc?

What does Cobb or the di - polar realist mean when he says that the suffering and death of the individual has importance in and for itself?

Hartshorne does not often comment on the dialectical and almost contradictory nature of his di - polar God even when clearly evident as in the following: «God, on the other hand, in his actual or relative aspect, unqualifiedly or with full effectiveness has or contains us; while in his absolute aspect he is the least inclusive of all individuals» (DR 92).

Gunton considers the logic of the dipolar concept «actually precludes the taking of initiative by God,» since if God is «passive to what happens in the universe» in «one pole of his being,» therefore he must be active in the other pole — for, Gunton apparently assumes, since activity and passivity are polar opposites, so they must correspond to the abstract / concrete poles of the divine reality when applied to God.

But I think his attempt to reconcile the two oftentimes gets confused and we see them as polar opposites when in fact there's really not an actual tension between the two.

But when tree rings, pollen counts in polar ice, and temperature records from multiple places around the world all point in the same direction, we become increasingly confident that global warming is a reality.

In fact, they're much more likely to see their parents as polar opposites even when they don't fight.

As a spokesman for the national covenant, Reston applies a polar principle of interpretation when he speaks to those who hold political power, particularly presidents: his premise or «hermeneutic» is that of skepticism and pity.

Also, when confronted with a doctrine that is logically extreme in the sense of having a polar opposite or, in the terms of propositional logic, a contrary extreme, compare the merits of each extreme not primarily with those of the opposite one, but with a moderate view sharing something of both extremes, a higher synthesis.

When I started the company, I was all «hugs and whales and save the polar bears.»

Forging deeper into the house, one sees a continuing variety of mounted trophies — goats, sheep, polar bears and whatnot — and, indeed, when the Days weary of one particular animal's presence, they can go into a living - room closet and choose a substitute head to their liking, including the remains of a homegrown buffalo that died of old age.