(a.) Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature.
(n.) The arctic circle.
(n.) A warm waterproof overshoe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(2) Cameron famously broke with the past, and highlighted his green credentials, by posing with huskies on a visit to Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic in 2006.
(3) The compromised ice sheet tilts and he sinks into the Arctic Sea on the back of his faltering white Icelandic pony.
(4) Called arctic packs, the insulating material consists of crude oil or diesel fuel.
(5) The loss of summer sea ice has led to unusual warming of the Arctic atmosphere, that in turn impacts weather patterns in the northern hemisphere , that can result in persistent extreme weather such as droughts, heatwaves and flooding," she said.
(6) ScalesOfJustice 18 September 2013 12:47pm If we go back to 1998, it appears as though global temperatures have stopped increasing, however Arctic temperatures have increased quite strongly - hence the strong decline in sea-ice since 1998.
(7) It should see the Arctic 30 home in time for Christmas.
(8) The other rowers in the Arctic crew were Billy Gammon, 37, from Cornwall; Rob Sleep, 38, and British army officer Captain David Mans, 28, both from Hampshire.
(9) Summer sea ice The most striking change in the Arctic in recent years has been the reduction in summer sea ice in 2007 .
(10) In addition, another 25 million acres of state and federal lands in the U.S. Arctic — onshore and off — are open to oil and gas leasing; of that,13.5 million acres have already been leased.
(11) Updated at 9.00pm GMT 8.52pm GMT How happy are Arctic Monkeys right now?
(12) "But if it keeps their plight and the plight of the Arctic in the press, I think she would be happy to do it."
(13) Photograph: NSIDC This contrasts sharply with the continuing decline of sea ice in the Arctic, which again recorded below average levels of ice during the summer.
(14) A British oil firm will tomorrow announce that it has struck oil off Greenland, a find that could trigger a rush to exploit oil reserves in the pristine waters of the Arctic.
(15) Using automatic and observer-operated equipment for monitoring thermal data, observations have been made during Royal Navy Wessex 5 helicopter operations in a sub-Arctic climate.
(16) The investigators said the Greenpeace ship the Arctic Sunrise had violated the 500-metre security zone around the platform and that it was carrying equipment whose purpose was still unclear.
(17) "The [Inupiat] people who have thrived off the Arctic waters for thousands of years and those who treasure the Arctic's unique wildlife will continue to demand that the Obama administration not allow Shell to move forward."
(18) The US Geological Survey estimated the waters in the Arctic contain about 90bn barrels of recoverable oil.
(19) 3.20pm BST Reaction from drilling industry Statoil spokesperson Bård Glad Pedersen says the Norwegian oil and gas company is exploring the Arctic through a step-by-step approach that builds on decades of experience in cold water regions.
(20) It’s time for governments, business and people the world over to respond and the most obvious place to start is by calling a halt to Shell’s reckless search for Arctic oil.” NSIDC is yet to provide a full analysis of this year’s melt, noting that there is a chance that changing wind patterns or low season melt could see the ice recede further.
Tundra
Definition:
(n.) A rolling, marshy, mossy plain of Northern Siberia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Strains of the causative agent of tularemia were for the first time isolated by the authors from the objects of the external environment in the tundra zone of Eastern Taimir; this indicates a possibility of preservation of the microbe under conditions of the extreme north.
(2) Drainage melioration in the Polesye resulted in a sharp increase in the number of tundra vole (Microtus oeconomus Pall.)
(3) Mosquito-borne arboviruses are prevalent throughout subarctic regions of Canada and Alaska, principally in the boreal forest extending between latitudes 53 and 66 degrees N, but they have been identified in tundra regions as far north as 70 degrees N. All mosquito-borne agents have been bunyaviruses, comprising principally the snowshoe hare subtype of California encephalitis (CE) virus, but also Northway virus.
(4) The postoncospheral development and cycle of Taenia polyacantha Leuckart, 1856, an holarctic species of cestode, were investigated in the laboratory as well as in the tundra of northern Alaska.
(5) There were found 26 parasitic and nonparasitic species of Gamasoidea, 3 species of Ixodidae and 2 species of Trombiculidae, 10 species of Aphaniptera, 3 species of Anoplura but there was found no species specific only for the tundra vole.
(6) Tundra peregrine eggs contain an average of 889 parts of DDE per million (lipid basis); taiga peregrine eggs contain 673 parts per million; Aleutian peregrine eggs contain 167 parts per million; rough-legged hawk eggs contain 22.5 parts per million; and gyrfalcon eggs contain 3.88 parts per million.
(7) Although the coastal natives' diet was higher in calories and fats than tundra inhabitants'; it was rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids, the main source of which was sea-animal meat.
(8) "That's why increasing tundra wildfires have the potential to accelerate the melting in Greenland," Box said.
(9) Temperature rises in excess of this may trigger a "tipping point" in places such as the Arctic tundra where permafrost would melt rapidly, releasing large amounts of methane which has a global warming effect eight times greater than CO2.
(10) Tundra and taiga peregrines have fledged progressively fewer young each year since 1966.
(11) Packers 7-6 49ers, 5:50, 2nd quarter Rodgers on the move - he's running to his right, and fires a strike to Nelson who MAKES THE CATCH and falls to the not-so-frozen tundra (they have sub-turf heating)!
(12) More than 1,000bn tonnes of carbon are stored in the soils beneath the Arctic tundra, double humanity’s emissions since the industrial revolution.
(13) Structural and functional features of plants from cold regions such as high mountain and tundra environments are characterized.
(14) Even though it has a great sense of smell - it can sniff a dog 35ft away - and can jump two feet to catch a beetle, and that a Russian hedgehog once found its way back home after it had been dropped 48 miles away across the tundra, the hedgehog is not, on the whole, a very clever creature.
(15) and Greyjoy fight one another while otherworldly ice demons rise in the northern tundra, and the Westerosi equivalent of nuclear weapons – dragons – are reaching maturity on a distant continent.
(16) The species was found in the rhizosphere of Vaccinum uliginosum and Arctous alpina from the mountain tundra of Kamchatka.
(17) The high northern latitudes are warming more rapidly than other parts of the Earth, with climate models predicting a northward shift of Arctic vegetation that will see the boreal biome (coniferous forest across North America and Eurasia) migrate into what is currently tundra (treeless plains of the Arctic).
(18) On land, shrubs are spreading across the lower Arctic because of a longer growing season, but other tundra plant types – such as moss and lichen – are declining.
(19) The mass radioisotope (32P) labelling of all tundra voles excreting Zeptospira, infected urine was carried out over the area of 1 ha, and the results of the experiment analyzed by the method of planar coherent graphs, showed the irregular (spotted) distribution of "infected spots", i. e. soil patches contaminated by Zeptospira.
(20) Speaking to a handful of journalists at Sporting’s training field yesterday (including one pale, bearded specimen huddled into the corner of his office nearest the baseboard heater), Vermes recalled playing in a game in freezing rain at the Rutgers Bowl, before airily gesturing at the tundra beyond his window and saying, “this is nothing.” I expect him to wear one of those t-shirts with a shirt and tie printed on it for the final.