Native perspectives on climate and sea-ice changes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncertainties in the understanding of ecological processes and changes driven by climate and UV-B radiation] Reference

The inmost corner of the bay was covered with sea-ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South Pole~ The Eastern Sledge Journey] Reference

But that was when the sea-ice conditions were different.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

And that is an sea-ice problem, not a population bloom problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Section 16.2.5.2 provides additional projections of future sea-ice conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Infrastructure and climate in the Arctic] Reference

Arctic climate change: observed and modelled temperature and sea-ice variability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic climate variability in the twentieth century] Reference

This is also the case for the ocean/sea-ice models driven by ECMWF atmospheric data.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regional modeling of the Arctic] Reference

The problems caused by sea-ice conditions in Hudson Bay were masked by the impact of hunting.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Equally important, it is very likely that there will be earlier sea-ice melt and later freeze-up (GA).    From Wordnik.com.  [Key findings of ACIA study of Arctic marine systems] Reference

By 2007, that area of sea-ice melt was already equivalent to the eastern U.S. out to Kansas and the Dakotas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic Meltdown] Reference

Upper water column temperatures are very likely to increase, especially in areas with reduced sea-ice cover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Key findings of ACIA study of Arctic marine systems] Reference

Direct marine influences include seawater temperature, sea-ice action, storm surges, wave action, and tides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Permafrost in the Arctic] Reference

Observed and projected changes in sea-ice and snow cover are discussed in sections 6.3 and 6.4, respectively.    From Wordnik.com.  [Factors affecting surface ultraviolet radiation levels in the Arctic] Reference

The greater part of Antarctica experiences a longer sea-ice season, lasting 21 days longer than it did in 1979.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of fear]

I guess the glaciers and ice-sheets and Arctic sea-ice and oceans and corals and seasons are in on the scam eh?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference

However, over longer periods of months or years, sea-surface tilt can have a noticeable effect on sea-ice motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea ice] Reference

There are few days when, even at mid-century, the Northern Sea Route is covered by 75% open water (25% sea-ice cover).    From Wordnik.com.  [Infrastructure and climate in the Arctic] Reference

Kennedy now proposed a plan for approaching a large flock, which had alighted about a half mile distant on the sea-ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference

With initial warming and sea-ice melting, more heat enters the ocean, thus melting more sea ice and increasing warming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ocean processes of climatic importance in the Arctic] Reference

This small, arctic fish is an opportunistic feeder that can live pelagically, or in association with sea-ice communities.    From Wordnik.com.  [General description of the Arctic biota] Reference

Projected reductions in sea-ice extent are likely to improve access along the Northern Sea Route and the Northwest Passage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Infrastructure and climate in the Arctic] Reference

However, discrepancies appeared in late summer that significantly affected variables such as wind flow and sea-ice transport.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regional modeling of the Arctic] Reference

The sea-ice boundaries in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean have been documented since the beginning of the 20th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic climate variability in the twentieth century] Reference

By January the sea-ice begins to break out, and chicks have begun to shed their soft down allowing them to fend for themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maudlandia Antarctic desert] Reference

The models also project a substantial decrease in snow and sea-ice cover over most of the Arctic by the end of the 21st century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Future climate change~ Modeling and scenarios for the Arctic] Reference

However, the ACIA designated model projections provide no information on sea-ice thickness, a critical factor for ice navigation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Infrastructure and climate in the Arctic] Reference

Norway, navigation is interfered with by ice only in severe winters, and then the ice is usually drifting, compact sea-ice being very rare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

Improvements in the performance of AOGCM sea-ice components are hampered by errors in the forcing fields that determine sea-ice distribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlook for improving climate change projections for the Arctic] Reference

More sophisticated treatments of sea-ice dynamics and thermodynamics can be included – up to the level of stand-alone regional Arctic Ocean/sea-ice models.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlook for improving climate change projections for the Arctic] Reference

A good way to think about it is this: In 2005 the area of sea-ice melt in the Arctic Ocean equaled about the size of the eastern United States, from Ohio east.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic Meltdown] Reference

However, decreasing sea-ice extent and thickness is very likely to affect traditional winter travel and hunting where sea ice has been used for these purposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coastal environment and infrastructure in the Arctic] Reference

Drilling in this area is only possible for a few months between July and early October; for the rest of the year the sea-ice becomes too thick to allow vessels to operate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Jacobs: Arctic oil - the battle begins] Reference

Low salinity waters are added to the surface and halocline layers via precipitation and runoff, Pacific inflow via the Bering Strait, and the sea-ice distillation process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ocean processes of climatic importance in the Arctic] Reference

Reduced sea-ice extent and thickness are very likely to provide opportunities for the export of natural resources and other waterborne commerce over new northern shipping routes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coastal environment and infrastructure in the Arctic] Reference