RE: [geo] NOAA's Arctic 2013 report

2014-01-06 Thread Andrew Lockley
Arctic 2013 report Greg and list (adding Peter Flynn) 1. Thanks for bringing this NOAA report to our attention. Clearly a worsening situation - especially in ice volume (as area/extent have to soon radically go to zero to follow the non-linear path of ice volume.Until today I hadn’t

Re: [geo] NOAA's Arctic 2013 report

2013-12-31 Thread Ronal W. Larson
Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Alberta peter.fl...@ualberta.ca cell: 928 451 4455 From: Ronal W. Larson [mailto:rongretlar...@comcast.net] Sent: December-26-13 10:14 PM To: RAU greg Cc: Geoengineering; Peter Flynn Subject: Re: [geo] NOAA's Arctic

Re: [geo] NOAA's Arctic 2013 report

2013-12-27 Thread Mike MacCracken
Hi Ronal‹Interesting idea. I would just note that while sea ice in the summer acts to reduce uptake of heat, in the winter it traps heat in the ocean that would normally be radiated away. So, really what one would want to do is keep sea ice off the ocean or broken up during the fall and early

Re: [geo] NOAA's Arctic 2013 report

2013-12-26 Thread Ronal W. Larson
Greg and list (adding Peter Flynn) 1. Thanks for bringing this NOAA report to our attention. Clearly a worsening situation - especially in ice volume (as area/extent have to soon radically go to zero to follow the non-linear path of ice volume.Until today I hadn’t thought of anything