Sentences with phrase «with less ice cover»

Other algae - grazing creatures may become more abundant as the food web adjusts to what's available with less ice cover.

Not exact matches

Their appearance may be less extravagant than the gingerbread men you see covered head - to - foot with royal icing, but these cookie simply don't need that kind of adornment.

First you get me started on caramel / chocolate covered matzoh and then every conceivable kind of unimaginably delicious ice creams, and now peanuts made with no less than a cup of sugar.

For instance, team member Linda Sohl used the GISS 3D model to see whether Earth circa 715 million years ago, with less carbon dioxide in the air, would be fully or partially covered in ice.

I haven't slept well for the last couple of nights, my little princess is fighting with flu and ear infection, the weather has gone all cold on us in Helsinki, the temperatures have dropped down 10 - 11 °C in less than 24 hours, I also had my last filling and tooth «cover» done yesterday, so once again I have looked like a tomato and felt crappy, etc... Not the best week and sometimes, no matter how positive you try to think and deal with everything, sometimes you just need this one day to simply feel like * hit, cry it out if you have to and have a nice comfort in form of chocolate bar or an ice cream sundae... That's what this day will serve me for and hopefully tomorrow will be much better.

Cover with a little less than a third of the icing.

At face value their numbers suggest the Arctic will be left with an extensive cover (> 4 million km ^ 2) of ice but only a small volume (< 2 million km ^ 3): i.e. on average the ice will be less than half a metre thick.

With impacts on Arctic coastal communities and increases in maritime activities, both observations of changes underway and predictions at the scale of less than a week to several months out are of importance to the research community and those living and operating in ice - covered seas.

For sensitivity to doubled CO2, knowing long term trends in humidity, cloud cover and type, ice, etc., would be particularly useful in comparison with trends of only a few years or less in these phenomena.

But with several factors combining to increase temperatures in Greenland and reduce the reflectivity of the snow and ice cover, the ice sheet is becoming less efficient at reflecting that heat energy, and as a consequence melt seasons are becoming more severe.

Thus, in the former domain one can find less ice sheet cover than in last year, but the latter is fully covered with ice.

Peak abundances of the small subpolar planktic foraminifer species Turborotalita quinqueloba found in MIS 5e sediments from the southern Lomonosov Ridge close to the Greenland continental margin (Site GreenICE, Fig. 1), a region with a modern perennial sea ice cover, may indicate less sea ice than today45.

(4) Last Interglacial (MIS 5e / Eemian) with a more or less closed sea ice cover situation over Core PS2757 - 8, preventing phytoplankton and sea ice algae productivity, and probably ice - free conditions towards the East Siberian shelf.

Heat from Arctic amplification over normal conditions in these regions is much smaller than on the other side of the pack because the ice covered these seas longer this year; The heat added due to Arctic amplification probably less than 6... and with most of that in the Beaufort, and not in the Chukchi and E. Siberian.

Polar bears are one of the most sensitive Arctic marine mammals to climate warming because they spend most of their lives on sea ice.35 Declining sea ice in northern Alaska is associated with smaller bears, probably because of less successful hunting of seals, which are themselves ice - dependent and so are projected to decline with diminishing ice and snow cover.36, 37,38,39 Although bears can give birth to cubs on sea ice, increasing numbers of female bears now come ashore in Alaska in the summer and fall40 and den on land.41 In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.45

It's still cutting - edge research and there's no smoking gun, but there's evidence that with less sea ice, you put a lot of heat from the ocean into the atmosphere, and the circulation of the atmosphere responds to that... We've seen a tendency for autumns with low sea ice cover to be followed by a negative Arctic Oscillation.

With ice cover shrinking in the Arctic during the summer months, less sunlight is reflected off the icy surface, which means the ocean absorbs the sunlight instead.

A 1C warming now would allow for a lot less plant growth then a 1C warming when the world is half covered with ice.

What is clear is that a warming world will also be a world with less ice and snow cover.

With such a small habitat remaining — which WWF estimates will cover less than 500,000 square miles — the few remaining polar bears in the Last Ice Area will be in close competition with each other for hunting grouWith such a small habitat remaining — which WWF estimates will cover less than 500,000 square miles — the few remaining polar bears in the Last Ice Area will be in close competition with each other for hunting grouwith each other for hunting grounds.