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    the regions around the North Pole, has huge ice. Since the more the temperature rises, the more ice melt, climate change and the ice melt have extremely a strong connection. Furthermore, a lot of species live below the sea of the Arctic, also there are some people who place their home in this area. As a result, global warming leads to the change of the Arctic sea ice condition which influences the environment and the people of the Arctic. Arctic sea ice has responsibility for stopping the rise of

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    and DeVecchio 2012). Sea ice covers about 7.3% of Earth’s surface, or about 11.8% of the surface of the World Ocean (Weeks 2010). During the summer it reflects sunlight back into the space and during winter it radiates heat into the space. Sea ice acts as a large lid on the polar oceans controlling the exchange of heat and mass across the ocean-sea ice-atmosphere interface, thus playing a significant role in the Earth’s climate system. The accelerated melting of Arctic sea ice in recent decades may

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    HISTORY - CONTROVERSY FROM THE PAST In order to provide context for the recent decline of ice in the sea, it is imperative to understand how the sea ice has varied over the past two centuries. Of particular interest, the period around 1920-1940 showed an “increase in almost twice the global average rate in past 100 years. [ ]” The warming during this time can be used to compare the decline of sea ice observed since 1979, but what will also be discussed is how this time period was also quite controversial

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    Global Sea-Level Rising: Polar Ice Caps Essay

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    The impact humans are having on mother Earth is increasing its effects with the rising of sea levels. Global warming is causing polar ice sheets to melt, which is a major cause of adding volume to our oceans. Furthermore, the troposphere thickens, due to greenhouse gases, increasing the amount of radioactive waves that causes the seawater to warm up, resulting in ocean expansion. Most climatologists are expecting a rise in oceans around the world to be between 1.5 and 5 ft by the end of this century

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    Sea Ice Outline

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    The Importance of Sea Ice to our Global Climate Research Paper Outline I. Increasing global temperatures have created concern. a. Sea ice is a vital component of our planet’s climate. b. The loss of sea ice, due to melting, affects climate patterns and amplifies global warming. c. The resulting changes are self-amplifying. II. Sea ice is formed as ocean water freezes at the Arctic and Antarctic. a. Some sea ice melts and refreezes during the summer, warming, months and the winter, cooling, months

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    Sea Ice Concentration

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    variability in both sea ice concentrations and methane emissions (Parmentier el at., 2015). If sea ice departure occurs near a region with vast wetlands, it is preferably likely that methane emissions are altered as opposed to melt occurring far off. Therefore, sea ice concentration was measured to the isolated grid cells of models representing methane. The grid used by Dr. Parmentier and his team was a grid-specific index of sea ice cover that represented a weighted average of sea ice concentration that

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    Albedo Research Paper

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    Ice, like other reflective surfaces, absorbs and reflects light. Different colors of light emits different wavelengths. Lighter colors of light such as red, yellow, and orange have longer wavelengths ranging from 500 nanometers to 700 nanometers. Darker colors such as blue, green, and purple have a shorter wavelength, ranging from 380 nanometers to 500 nanometers. Anything above 700 nanometers are considered infrared and anything below 380 is considered ultraviolet. Ultraviolet lights are so powerful

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    their survival is being threatened because of climate change. Because of this change their habitat is also diminishing. Historically speaking by the late 1980s and early 1990s, the likelihood that climate warming would have negative effects on sea ice was gaining recognition. Climate change happens when certain gasses block heat from escaping the atmosphere. Most scientists agree the cause of this trend is human expansion of the greenhouse effect. One of the most common gasses and its importance

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    mainly live in the sea ice of the Arctic have been added to the the list of endangered species. Polar bear’s spend most of their time on the ice and depend on it as a platform to hunt seals, rest and breed. As a researcher wrote on the The Guardian, “Satellite data revealed that the total number of ice-covered days across the 19 regions declined at a rate of seven to 19 days per decade from 1979 to 2014.” The change in temperature is leading to the rapid melting of the sea ice. The ice is melting earlier

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    risk: drowning, cannibalism, and human fought "" The root causes of this series of bizarre events are due to global warming. Bear War spate In 2004, US scientists in Beaufort Bay found four drowned polar bears as "super swimmer" And all day on pack ice from the shuttle Walker, drowning event was incomprehensible. In the same year, it took place in polar bear territory Bizarre murder, people found the bodies of two small polar bear in a cave collapse, even outside the cave animals Continued heavy blow

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