Sentences with phrase «winter ice year»

Still, they indicate that some areas of the ocean are heating up especially fast, such as the Arctic Ocean — which this year had its lowest winter ice year on record — and is absorbing much more solar energy as melting ice cover exposes new dark surfaces.

And Antarctic winter ice this year had the largest coverage since records began in 1979.

Not exact matches

This year, it hit along with our first snow / ice storm before winter had technically even begun.

Well, I finally got around to it and even though it's winter time, ice cream is an ALL YEAR ROUND food (for me at least!).

The shipping channels are packed with ice — it's the harshest winter in years!

I had my three year old home from preschool for the winter break and a few days ago she decided she wanted to make ice cream.

Its violence stilled by the grip of winter, Bridalveil loomed high above 28 - year - old Jeff Lowe, beckoning him upward in the first solo assault on this ice fall of terrifying grandeur

Winter Sports Former European Footballer of the Year Lev Yashin started life as an Ice Hockey goalie before finding fame with the powerful USSR side of the 1960s.

Season / when played: Winter; many (but not all) indoor ice rinks are open year - round.

The ice skating rink is fun winter venue that welcomes friends and loved ones to accompany the birthday child as she glides into another year.

HANOVER PARK — Skating will be allowed this year at the village - owned pond at Schick and Morton Roads after residents complained about not being allowed on the ice last winter.

Asked why ice hockey rinks are not in the plan, Mammoser said, «The way winters have gone in the past few years, we have not had a lot of ice.

Libbrecht is interested in what happens on a molecular level when ice crystals form, but he sees it as an old - fashioned scientific pursuit: «It's really like doing science 100 years ago,» he says, in that he's studying a mystery inherent in the mundane and familiar snowflakes that flutter from the sky each winter.

Polyakov says a positive feedback loop is underway, in which less summer sea ice will lead to warmer winter waters and even less summer ice in subsequent years.

Manley's Central England record coincides well with the year - to - year rises and falls of temperature proxies: tree rings and written records of when winter ice spread over rivers or harbors and trees sprouted leaves.

It is a process that occurs all the year around, but more frequently in summer than in winter, a process, moreover, that sets adrift thousands of huge ice masses during the course of a year.

Winter sea ice has been at record lows for the past three years, according to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Centice has been at record lows for the past three years, according to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data CentIce Data Center.

King penguins are in fact picky animals: in order to form a colony where they can mate, lay eggs and rear chicks over a year, they need tolerable temperature all year round, no winter sea ice around the island, and smooth beach of sand or pebbles.

And at high global latitudes, cold lakes normally covered by ice in the winter are seeing less ice year after year — a change that could affect all parts of the food web, from algae to freshwater seals.

The record follows a trend over the past three years of anomalously high winter ice extents, providing a stark contrast to the inexorable decline of Arctic sea ice

And other parts of the country more used to challenging winter weather have been getting an extra dose of wind, snow and ice this year as well.

Warmer winters combined with an increase in snowfall during the last 30 years have limited the growth of seasonal lake ice.

Most likely it is nitrogen ice, accumulated as gases in Pluto's atmosphere freeze during its 60 - year - long winter.

Over 25 years, the proportion of the ocean covered by ice at least four years old has dwindled from 26 % to 7 %, while the remaining ice is mainly thin, the product of one winter.

Arctic sea ice reaches its peak at the end of the winter; last year that winter peak set a record low.

Satellite observations also showed that this winter's ice cover is slightly thinner than in recent years.

NSIDC will issue a formal announcement at the beginning of October with full analysis of the possible causes behind this year's ice conditions, particularly interesting aspects of the melt season, the set up going into the winter growth season ahead, and graphics comparing this year to the long - term record.

Thus the entire lake food web is impacted by the degree of ice cover from year to year and the degree of winter productivity.

In 2008, 72 % of the winter ice was thin first - year ice — usually it would be about 30 % — opening the possibility that the North Pole would be ice - free for the first time.

The lake starts to freeze in December and melt in May, although in recent years, as Siberian winters have got colder, ice has been lasting longer on Baikal.

The sea ice reached its maximum winter extent unusually early this year and has been falling fast, to a new record low for this time of year (see graph below).

«This is the first - ever such survey in the Northwest Passage, and we were surprised to find this much thick ice in the region in late winter, despite the fact that there is more and more open water in recent years during late summer,» says Haas.

Arctic sea ice was also thinner this winter than in the past four years, according to data from the European Space Agency's CryoSat - 2 satellite.

«Later, the sea ice gradually expanded from the very high Arctic before reaching, for the first time, what we now see as the boundary of the winter ice around 2.6 million years ago,» says Jochen Knies, who is also attached to CAGE, the Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate at the University of Tromsø, the Arctic University of Norway.

At this time of year, sea ice should be growing rapidly as winter sets in.

The succession of temperature records has also been accompanied by other notable climate records, including thebiggest ever year - to - year jump in carbon dioxide levels at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii, as well as a record low winter Arctic sea ice peak.

Ice cores drilled from a glacier in a cave in Transylvania offer new evidence of how Europe's winter weather and climate patterns fluctuated during the last 10,000 years, known as the Holocene period.

That's partly because of long, cold winters but also because the northern latitudes were heavily glaciated in the last ice age 10,000 years ago and lost much of their plant life.

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.

Recruitment is related to the winter sea ice cover from the previous year, as diminished sea ice cover reduces habitat available for over-wintering juvenile and adult krill and reduces the size of the food - rich marginal sea ice zone in summer.

For typical mid-latitude glaciers, winter snow accumulation is on the order of 1 m / year (ice equivalent — or about 3 m of snow).

The global mean temperature rise of less than 1 degree C in the past century does not seem like much, but it is associated with a winter temperature rise of 3 to 4 degrees C over most of the Arctic in the past 20 years, unprecedented loss of ice from all the tropical glaciers, a decrease of 15 to 20 % in late summer sea ice extent, rising sealevel, and a host of other measured signs of anomalous and rapid climate change.

(This makes it clear why glaciers in coastal Norway are not as strongly influenced by temperature — at these locations, winter precipitation typically exceeds several ice - equivalent meters per year).

«As far as I know we are the first to conduct such a survey throughout an entire year and in such an inhospitable environment, under the ice and during an Arctic winter,» says Carolyn Rosten, a researcher at NINA.

That marks the second straight year that the winter maximum ice extent set a record low.

The years with very low sea - ice coincide with very cold winter temperatures recorded in central Asia, as you can see in the graph below.

Using ice cores from three of Svalbard's glaciers, she and her colleagues have reconstructed a thousand years of variations in winter temperatures for Longyearbyen and for Vardø at the northeastern tip of mainland Norway.

Rather than projecting out to the mid-twenty-first century, it is clear that the Arctic Ocean already has crossed a threshold with open water during the summer and first - year sea ice during the winter covering more than 50 percent of its area.

Well, I finally got around to it and even though it's winter time, ice cream is an ALL YEAR ROUND food (for me at least!).

At this time of year I'm usually on the look out for cute winter boots that I can walk to and from work in without them making me bleed, or allowing me to slip on ice.