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441-450 of 988 results for Arctic Ice

Are Humans Influencing Modern Climate?

Section: Teaching Climate

Published: March 7, 2024

the world and analyzed for stable isotopes by graduate student Amy Steiker at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. Streiker has found that the isotopic signature of nitrous oxide is changing d ...

Black Carbon

Section: Teaching Climate

Published: February 12, 2024

link. Black carbon is soot. Black carbon is soot. Black carbon on the surface of sea ice contributes to the acceleration of sea ice melting by absorbing, rather than reflecting, sunlight. Because bl ...

Probabilities, Uncertainties and Units Used to Quantify Climate Change

Section: Teaching Climate

Published: December 2, 2024

process to an understanding of the use of a statistical tool (T-test) for comparing change in ice on/ice off data over time. Introduction to statistical terms such as probability, variance, uncertain ...

Cool Cores Capture Climate Change

Section: Teaching Climate

Published: February 12, 2024

a warm climate and open water in the Ross Sea followed by a period of cooling, the advance of an ice sheet, and finally a period of warming with a retreat of the ice sheet. Refer through the activity ...

People and Communities

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: October 28, 2016

the need for—and cost of—winter heating needs. Some research, however, suggests that loss of Arctic sea ice could affect this trend. For more information on this area of active research, see the Arcti ...

How is the current global warming trend different from previous warming periods in Earth's history?

Section: News & Features

Published: January 23, 2014

rate is about 45 times faster than the warming Earth experienced when it emerged from the last ice age. References . IPCC (2007): Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of ...

CO2 & the Atmosphere

Section: Teaching Climate

Published: January 8, 2025

of CO2 in Earth's climate system. Animations are used to describe Milankovitch cycles and the ice ages. Finally, the video shows how glaciers act as bulldozers to create moraines that indicate past t ...

What's the hottest Earth has been "lately"?

Section: News & Features

Published: September 17, 2014

temperature reconstruction shows global average temperature increasing after the end of the last ice age and leveling off about 7550 and 3550 BC. After that time, global temperatures dropped until th ...

Where, oh where, has Alaska's winter gone?

Section: News & Features

Published: March 11, 2016

won't have to go to those extremes, but conditions will be far from ideal. A balmy -47°F in Arctic Village. The 2015-2016 Winter (December-February) for Alaska was the second warmest on record, dating ...

Asheville Makes a Plan for Climate Resilience

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: July 6, 2017

and opportunities. Dramatic events such as rising seas, storm surge, extreme drought, or Arctic ice melt may come to mind when people think about the global impacts of a changing climate. Asheville's ...