Antarctica(the South Pole) is land surrounded by oceans, while theArctic(surrounding theNorth Pole) is an ocean almost completely surrounded by continents andGreenland. The Arctic isn't quite as cold as Antarctica, and here are some reasons why: ...
Hasenstein is referring to the body ofsupercold airthat, under normal circumstances, stays locked up in the Arctic, turning endless circles around the North Pole. But this past weekend, a low-pressure storm system that moved through the Great Lakes region cleared a path for the vortex to esc...
Why is ozone hole in South pole bigger than in North pole? Why is a hurricane called a hurricane? Why is the Earth's outer core so hot? Why is Antarctica frozen? Why don't the present shapes of the continents fit perfectly into a supercontinent?
“more ice means the South Polar Sea is colder” is nonsense, we do know that the Polar Sea is getting warmer, so that the extent of ice on the Ocean is definitely a badproxyfor temperature, But when it comes to explanations of what we see, things look a lot more murky to me. ...
Super cold air is normally locked up in the Arctic in the polar vortex, which is a gigantic circular weather pattern around the North Pole. A strong polar vortex keeps that cold air hemmed in. "Then when it weakens, it causes like a dam to burst," and the cold air heads south, said...
Scientists say the warming Arctic is one reason. Last year saw the highest ocean temperature since records began. "Rising temperatures in seas such as the North Pacific and the North Atlantic have affected the temperatures around the North Pole, which pushed the Arctic vortex southward," said hea...
Scott helped Amundsen in that he confimed that he had indeed reached the South Pole. Without Scott, there would have been no independent confirmation that Amundsen had been there, possibly in the manner of the uncertainty of Cook and Peary each claiming to have reached the North Pole i...
15c). Because of the negative TDA, the ocean temperature in the subsurface is colder than the surface. Thus the mean upwelling could cool down SST (Fig. 15c). For the transition phase of special 2005/06 LN, because the TDA in the EP was positive (Fig. 15b), eastward geostrophic ...
“Species’ primary response to climate change is to move around the landscape and try to reclaim their climate space,” Barnosky explains. In other words: they try to find conditions that replicate those of the places where they had previously thrived. Indeed, University of Texas at Austin’...
The combination of the Earth's tilt and its rotation about the Sun mean that on one day a year, the North Pole ends up tilting as far as possible toward the Sun while the South Pole is tilted as far away as possible. This results in thelongest day of the year, also known as the ...