Sentences with phrase «winter sea ice area»

Q5 (b) Where is the empirical evidence to support the theory that [North Atlantic cooling] is leading to «some recovery of the Barents Sea winter sea ice area... in the short term».

Steven — I reserve the right to bring it up again if you introduce something along the lines of «some recovery of the Barents Sea winter sea ice area may occur in the short term» into the conversation again.

In 2017, maximum winter sea ice area, measured each March, was the lowest ever observed.

Where is the empirical evidence to support the theory that «the ocean heat content of the N Atlantic is dropping», which is leading to «some recovery of the Barents Sea winter sea ice area... in the short term,».

Not exact matches

Due to global warming, larger and larger areas of sea ice melt in the summer and when sea ice freezes over in the winter it is thinner and more reduced.

The area of the Arctic Ocean covered by sea ice usually hits its winter peak in early to mid-March, as the freeze season ends with the re-emergence of the sun above the horizon.

The record - low winter maximum doesn't necessarily herald a record low end - of - summer minimum come September, as summer weather patterns have a large effect on sea ice area.

During winter, each pump would be capable of building an additional layer of sea ice up to 1 meter thick over an area of about 100,000 square meters, or about the size of 15 soccer fields, the researchers estimate in the January issue of Earth's Future.

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.

In the autumn adult krill migrate from offshore and continental shelf areas to inshore habitats where they remain through winter under the protective cover of sea ice [4].

The sea ice that caps the Arctic Ocean naturally waxes and wanes with the seasons, reaching its maximum area at the end of winter, before the reemergence of the sun in spring starts off the melt season.

The area covered by sea ice in the Arctic hit record lows through the winter of 2017.

For example, few data are available for the polar winter, and it is not known whether aragonite - undersaturated areas decrease in size with the seasonal freezing of sea ice.

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.

However, the idea is simple, and I've talked about this much in many presentations this winter: Take the amount of ice you need to get rid of from Greenland to raise sea level 2 m in the next century, reduce it by your best estimate of the amount that would be removed by surface mass balance losses, and try to push the rest out of the aggregate cross-sectional area of Greenland's marine - based outlet glaciers.

There are only two limited areas where the winter ice edge can vary substantially — the North Atlantic and Bering Sea.

This residual is a logical consequence of there still being sea ice growth in the winter, and a significant area of ice at the end of the summer.

Here we demonstrate that the decrease in autumn Arctic sea ice area is linked to changes in the winter Northern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation that have some resemblance to the negative phase of the winter Arctic Oscillation.

The September ice area is predicted to be comparable to 2009 based on winter (Jan - Feb - Mar) sea level pressure anomalies over the Kara and Laptev Seas.

Then it said «If the general positive trend in Atlantic heat input remains, winter cooling will likely be insufficient to produce ice over an increasing area, leading to further «Atlantification» of the Barents Sea.»

The greater Pan-Arctic winter was mostly cloudier, but without a great deal of precipitation in the CAA Arctic Basin area, this made the sea ice even thicker during wind storms.

«By doing it 100 times, which is something of course we can't do with the real world, they were able to generate statistics that showed the extra cold winters in Asia were twice as likely to occur when they put reduced sea ice in the Barents - Kara Sea, as compared to when there was lots of ice in that area.&raqsea ice in the Barents - Kara Sea, as compared to when there was lots of ice in that area.&raqSea, as compared to when there was lots of ice in that area.»

OSLO / WASHINGTON Winter sea ice on the Arctic Ocean covered the second smallest area on record this year, part of a thaw that is opening the region to shipping and oil exploration and may be disrupting weather far to the south, scientists said on Friday.

The area of the Arctic Ocean covered by sea ice naturally waxes and wanes with the seasons, reaching its peak at the end of winter and its nadir at the end of summer, usually in mid-September.

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.

Fishing for Antarctic krill near to the Antarctic continent is expected to become more common during winter months in areas where there is less winter sea ice.

The bright white central mass shows the perennial sea ice, which is just the multi-year ice that has survived at least one summer, while the larger light blue area shows the full extent of the winter sea ice including the average annual sea ice during the 2012 months of November, December and January.

The ice retreat in the East Siberian Sea will be late compared with the last year because the area is covered by thicker ice piled up by the winter convergence of sea iSea will be late compared with the last year because the area is covered by thicker ice piled up by the winter convergence of sea isea ice.

Sea levels are rising (ask the Mayor of Miami who has spent tax monies to raise road levels), we've had 15 of the hottest years eve measured, more precipitation is coming down in heavy doses (think Houston), we're seeing more floods and drought than ever before (consistent with predictions), the oceans are measuring warmer, lake ice in North America is thawing sooner (where it happens in northern states and Canada), most glaciers are shrinking, early spring snowpacks out west have declined since the 1950's, growing seasons are longer throughout the plains, bird wintering ranges have moved north, leaf and bloom dates recorded by Thoreau in Walden have shifted in that area, insect populations that used to have one egg - larva - adult cycle in the summer now have two, the list goes on and on.

https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/asl2.423 «In recent years, winter westerly winds over the Beaufort Sea and summer anticyclonic circulation over the Arctic toward the Fram Strait have contributed to accelerated decreases in sea ice over areas east of Europe and north of AlasSea and summer anticyclonic circulation over the Arctic toward the Fram Strait have contributed to accelerated decreases in sea ice over areas east of Europe and north of Alassea ice over areas east of Europe and north of Alaska.

This sea ice loss is what set up the weather pattern mentioned above that steered Sandy into the US Northeast, as well as extreme cold last winter in other areas.

For both summer and winter Arctic sea - ice, the area coverage is declining at present (with summer sea - ice declining more markedly; ref.

By late winter (August - September), the typical extent of sea ice around Antarctica is about 19 106 km2, i.e. more than twice the area of Australia, and more than the area of Arctic sea ice.

This is not because there was not thicker winter sea ice near Iceland (there was), but because that was more than compensated by sea ice losses in less accessible areas so that overall sea ice extent declined in that period (albeit, slowly):

The exception is the higher latitudes, where land areas warm relatively faster in boreal summer in high - end models, but sea ice areas show varying differences in boreal winter.

The observed effects of cryosphere reduction include modification of river regimes due to enhanced glacial melt, snowmelt advance and enhanced winter base flow; formation of thermokarst terrain and disappearance of surface lakes in thawing permafrost; decrease in potential travel days of vehicles over frozen roads in the Arctic; enhanced potential for glacier hazards and slope instability due to mechanical weakening driven by ice and permafrost melting; regional ocean freshening; sea - level rise due to glacier and ice sheet shrinkage; biotic colonisation and faunal changes in deglaciated terrain; changes in freshwater and marine ecosystems affected by lake - ice and sea - ice reduction; changes in livelihoods; reduced tourism activities related to skiing, ice climbing and scenic activities in cryospheric areas affected by degradation; and increased ease of ship transportation in the Arctic.

Anderson (Norwegian Space Center); 4.1; Statistical Prediction is based on the relationship between melting and freezing in the Arctic by comparing winter maximum sea ice area with the summer minimum sea ice area.

Arctic sea ice covered a smaller area last winter than in any winter since records began.