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491-500 of 991 results for Arctic Ice

Doesn't carbon dioxide in the atmosphere come from natural sources?

Section: News & Features

Published: October 29, 2020

the ocean, direct absorption into the ocean, and the creation of soil and peat. During all the ice ages that have occurred over at least the past million years, these opposing branches of the carbon ...

U. S. temperature extremes and the polar jet stream

Section: News & Features

Published: September 16, 2014

call a trough—fills with chilly, Arctic air. The places where the jet stream says high in the Arctic—called a "ridge"—allows warmer air to the south to stagnate. It's not that these ridges and troughs ...

Temperature and CO2 concentration in the atmosphere over the past 400,000 years

Section: Teaching Climate

Published: February 12, 2024

example, [. Graphic is slightly dated (2000) and could benefit from the inclusion of more recent ice core data going back 600K years from EPICA (Dome D). Comments from expert scientist: This webpage ...

Alaska fire season near normal in 2017

Section: News & Features

Published: August 1, 2018

Range —which saw significant wildfire activity. Part of the Upper Yukon lies north of the Arctic Circle, and areas near the Arctic Circle and north of it entered a critical fire-danger season in mid-J ...

How the pattern of trends across the tropical Pacific Ocean is critical for understanding the future climate

Section: News & Features

Published: January 26, 2023

also be more variable as this blog recently pointed out. This increased waviness can mean the Arctic tends to be unusually warm and a large area of the North American and Eurasian continents tend to b ...

Superstorm Sandy and Sea Level Rise

Section: News & Features

Published: November 5, 2012

protection. [*Editor's note: Like a giant placing its finger on one end of a seesaw, northern ice sheets compressed the Earth below them, and land beyond the edge of the ice sheet—including the New Y ...

Interpretations: Reading the Book of Earth

Section: Teaching Climate

Published: February 12, 2024

forcing" earlier in the worksheet. Students graph and analyze atmospheric methane data from ice core records, and compare the relative forcing power of methane and CO2. Using the methane data and cur ...

Global Climate Change: The Effects of Global Warming

Section: Teaching Climate

Published: February 12, 2024

on longer time scales. In particular, there is a graph of the climate record in the Vostok ice core that shows the relationship between temperature and both CO2 and CH4 (methane). It shows that over ...

The stratosphere is talking down to the troposphere, but will it listen?

Section: News & Features

Published: January 30, 2024

Scientists have a pretty good understanding of how a reversal of the winds ~19 miles above the Arctic influences the winds at lower altitudes, at least down to about the tropopause (the altitude where ...

2013 State of the climate: Mountain glaciers

Section: News & Features

Published: July 12, 2014

1980. Considering all glaciers for which we have at least some records, mountain glaciers and ice caps have lost an amount of ice equivalent to slicing a 54-foot-thick slab (16.5 meters) off the top ...