How To Use polynya In A Sentence
- The biological oases are open waters, called polynyas, where blooming plankton support the local food chain.
- Surrounded by the Arctic Ocean, some polynyas (open areas in frozen seas) remain open all year round.
- The length of the sea ice season can vary from a few days to year-round and generally decreases with distance from the continent, with the exception of coastal polynyas and the large and regular polynya off the Ross Ice Shelf.
- The goal was to map water conditions in the Ross Sea "polynya," a region of open water surrounded by sea ice, where the plankton blooms every Antarctic summer. Research robots roam the Ross Sea
- In the St. Lawrence Island polynya region, changes in regional oceanography due to the position or size of the Gulf of Anadyr gyre are ultimately related to the northward transport of water through the Bering Strait, and to the geostrophic balance within the Arctic Ocean basin. Past variability in Arctic marine systems
- These forces move the ice to create open water, even in winter, in the form of linear cracks called leads and large areas of persistently open water called polynyas.
- However, it is possible that an enhanced and more energetic polynya could result from warming. Past variability in Arctic marine systems
- Third: if the polynya was a freak occurence then you wouldn’t expect to see the Beaufort frozen over on July 25th every year. 2006 was just an accident. AGU Fall Meeting « Climate Audit
- Sea-ice production in the source region in winter is enhanced within a polynya (the North Water) formed by the persistent southward drift of ice. Marine Arctic
- One recent UAV mission in Antarctica examined a polar ocean feature called a polynya, which is an area of open ocean surrounded on all sides by either a coast, sea ice, or both. Livescience.com
