Sentences with phrase «winter snow cover»

Things that used to happen a lot, like consistent winter snow cover, are happening less reliably.

See: Ministry Of Truth Announces «record retreat of snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere» — But it was the «second largest winter snow cover on record»

A thick early winter snow cover in the region refrigerates the air directly above, strengthening the temperature contrast with the Arctic Ocean and reinforcing the entire pattern, Haustein explains.

Northern Hemisphere winter snow cover may provide a corollary of where sea ice is headed this summer.

According to NOAA data analyzed by the Rutgers Global Snow Lab, for the winter season, the contiguous U.S. snow cover extent was 62,000 square miles below the 1981 - 2010 average; this was the 23rd largest (27th smallest) winter snow cover extent for the contiguous U.S. and the smallest since the winter of 2011/12.

The labyrinthine interiors of depth hoar crystals also cause problems for researchers like the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Al Rango, who uses microwave - sensing satellites to measure the amount of water locked away in the winter snow cover.

Professors Jonathan Pauli and Benjamin Zuckerberg explain the subnivium — habitat between the ground and winter snow cover that is being affected by climate change.

The very increase in absolute humidity that reinforced the warming trend through infrared absorption might lead to increased cloudiness (or indeed to increased precipitation and winter snow cover) and thus, through reflection of insolation, to a considerable buffering of the warming trend.

As for influences of an «open» Arctic Ocean on fall and winter snow cover, there are several studies underway.

Winter snow cover in 2008/2009 was not a record high - in fact, it was quite average.

Winter snow cover in 2008/2009 was average while the long - term trend in spring, summer, and annual snow cover is rapid decline.

The 2017 Arctic Report Card stated that ice is shrinking faster compared with the prior 500 years, and that «observations in 2017 continue to indicate that the Arctic environmental system has reached a «new normal», characterized by long - term losses in the extent and thickness of the sea ice cover, the extent and duration of the winter snow cover and the mass of ice in the Greenland Ice Sheet and Arctic glaciers, and warming sea surface and permafrost temperatures.»