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731-740 of 1004 results for Arctic Ice

July in Christmas

Section: News & Features

Published: January 8, 2016

of the portion related to El Niño. But El Niño is never the only cause. There was also a strong Arctic Oscillation (AO) or what is more popularly called the polar vortex these days (2), but it wasn't ...

2013 State of the Climate: Carbon dioxide tops 400 ppm

Section: News & Features

Published: July 13, 2014

level is only a symbolic benchmark for carbon dioxide concentrations, it should be noted that ice core records show CO2 levels never exceeded 300 ppm during the last 800,000 years until the early 20t ...

Natural variability in Earth's reflectiveness would limit our ability to detect effects of climate engineering

Section: News & Features

Published: March 26, 2014

But those regions are at the opposite ends of the scale of actual reflectivness: the Greenland Ice Sheet and the light-colored sands of the Sahara are consistently bright (very reflective), while clo ...

2012 State of the Climate: Glaciers

Section: News & Features

Published: July 31, 2013

2011 (the most recent year for which worldwide analysis is complete) was negative, with combined ice loss equivalent to 766 millimeters of water. On a regional basis, the rate of loss was greater in ...

State of the Climate: 2011 Humidity

Section: News & Features

Published: July 10, 2012

It's possible because saturation—the point at which water vapor condenses back into water or ice, often forming clouds—depends on the air temperature, and air temperature around the world is also ris ...

Fending Off Invaders in a Warmer Climate

Section: News & Features

Published: April 5, 2012

Anne Clites, Marie Colton, Brent Lofgren, 2012: Temporal and Spatial Variability of Great Lakes Ice Cover, 1973-2010. J. Climate, 25, 1318-1329. GoErie.com (2012, March 6) Learn about your environmen ...

March 2024 ENSO update: award season

Section: News & Features

Published: March 14, 2024

the warmest winter on record for the Great Lakes and Upper Midwest, causing historically low ice levels in the Great Lakes. El Niño influences winter temperature, so can we blame this on El Niño? Not ...

A More Navigable Arctic

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: August 24, 2015

Coast Guard Ship Louis S. St-Laurent. It's likely that ice breakers won't be the only ships in Arctic waters in the relatively near future. Source : . U. S. Geological Survey. Image Cred ...

Low ice on the Great Lakes this winter

Section: News & Features

Published: February 21, 2023

of year. As of February 13, 2023, only 7 percent of these five freshwater lakes was covered in ice, which is significantly below the 35-40 percent ice cover that is expected for this time of year, ac ...

Tornados and blizzards. It's spring across the Great Plains!

Section: News & Features

Published: May 4, 2017

tropics begins to push father north into the United States while frigid air from the Canadian Arctic can still rush south. When this gets wrapped up in a massive storm system, there can be instances w ...