The observed rate of sea ice cover decline in the Arctic for the past decades is faster than those projected by the recent Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5). I hypothesize that a critical source of energy in the Arctic Ocean, heat content accumulating below the surface mixed layer and above the halocline, has been increasing in magnitude and area, and may be contributing to the recent decline in the ice cover. Consistent with observations, model results from a subset of the Regional...
Topics: Arctic oceanography, ocean heat content, climate change andprediction, Regional Arctic System...
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The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The average amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate, because the absorbed energy heats up the Earth until it is radiated away as thermal radiation. This animation shows the monthly...
Topics: Earth Science, Atmosphere, Atmospheric Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Earth Science, Oceans, Ocean...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3097
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The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The average amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate, because the absorbed energy heats up the Earth until it is radiated away as thermal radiation. This animation shows the monthly...
Topics: Earth Science, Atmosphere, Atmospheric Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Earth Science, Oceans, Ocean...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3096
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The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate. An instrument named CERES orbits the Earth every 99 minutes and measures the reflected solar energy. This animation shows the reflected...
Topics: Earth Science, Atmosphere, Atmospheric Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Earth Science, Oceans, Ocean...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3108
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The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate. An instrument named CERES orbits the Earth every 99 minutes and measures the reflected solar energy. This animation shows the outgoing...
Topics: Earth Science, Atmosphere, Atmospheric Radiation, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Earth Science,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3107
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The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The average amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate, because the absorbed energy heats up the Earth until it is radiated away as thermal radiation. This animation shows the monthly...
Topics: Earth Science, Atmosphere, Atmospheric Radiation, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Earth Science,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3091
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The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The average amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate, because the absorbed energy heats up the Earth until it is radiated away as thermal radiation. This animation shows the monthly...
Topics: Earth Science, Atmosphere, Atmospheric Radiation, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Earth Science,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3092
Decrease in Arctic Ocean perennial sea-ice has been observed in recent decades. As sea-ice continues to decline, marine traffic will increase and the United States will require a more active military presence in the Arctic. Future Arctic conditions must be forecasted with increased accuracy to allow for proper planning with regard to the nations changing role in the region. It is the goal of this thesis to contribute to the knowledge of turbulence and mixing associated with ice keels in the...
Topics: Arctic Ocean, Beaufort Sea, Ice Concentration, Ice Morphology, Ice Roughness, Sea Ice, Ice Keel,...
The Arctic has had a strong response to global climate change expressed through widespread melting of the perennial ice cover in the Canada Basin at an increasing rate. High resolution coupled atmospheric and ocean climate models significantly underestimate this reduction in late summer ice extent. In this study, long term ocean time series observations from ice tethered profilers (ITPs) and autonomous ocean flux buoys (AOFBs) enable the integration of upper ocean temperature structure to make...
Topics: ocean heat content, Arctic Ocean, ocean mixed layer, Beaufort Gyre, Beaufort Sea, transpolar drift,...
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The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate. An instrument named CERES orbits the Earth every 99 minutes and measures the reflected solar energy. This animation shows the reflected...
Topics: Earth Science, Atmosphere, Atmospheric Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Earth Science, Atmosphere,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3175
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The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate. An instrument named CERES orbits the Earth every 99 minutes and measures the reflected solar energy. This animation shows the outgoing...
Topics: Earth Science, Atmosphere, Atmospheric Radiation, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Earth Science,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3176
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The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The amount of reflection and absorption is critical to th e climate. An instrument named CERES orbits the Earth every 99 minutes and measures the reflected solar energy. This animation shows the scene...
Topics: Earth Science, Atmosphere, Atmospheric Radiation, Reflectance, Earth Science, Atmosphere, Clouds,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3104
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The Earth's climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun to the Earth's land, oceans, and atmosphere. As the Earth rotates, the sun lights up only part of the Earth at a time, and some of that incoming solar energy is reflected and some is absorbed, depending on type of area it lights. The amount of reflection and absorption is critical to the climate. An instrument named CERES orbits the Earth every 99 minutes and measures the reflected solar energy. This animation shows the scene...
Topics: Earth Science, Atmosphere, Atmospheric Radiation, Reflectance, Earth Science, Atmosphere, Clouds,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3179
Christina Gerhardt , author of The Atlas of (Remote) Islands and Sea Level Rise , explores the effects and responses to climate-warming on low-lying Pacific Ocean islands. Urbanist Laura Tam addresses sea level rise on vulnerable shorelines around the Bay Area. Learn about indigenous inhabitants’ adaptive solutions in the South Seas and local grassroots efforts to prepare our bay shore.
Topics: Sea Level Rise, Climate Change, ocean heat, thermal expansion, coastal erosion, drowning islands,...
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This song is inspired by a night along the west coast of Canada, and by the whales around Newfoundland and Labrador. I used to sit in a dory, a small wooden boat, and watch the whales go by. When the waves were high, over 5 to 6 feet or two meters high, and sometimes the whales would do a "see saw" with me in the waves. They would be in the upper curve of the wave while I was in the valley of the wave, and visa versa. They would stay in the wave and we would watch each other, eye to...
Topics: greenpeace, whaling, fleet, money, extinction, pollution, warming, ocean heat, XR, climate change,...
