The climate of Alaska is usually 4 to 5 degrees below zero most of the time. Huge icebergs would slide off gravel shores in October, and would never break up into the river. Not a lot of plants or shrubs in these types of areas, because it’s so there is more room for polar bears and other animals, and erosion of the land was slow, until global warming started up, so now erosion is faster. Temperatures have gone up 7 degrees in the past 50 years, so huge icebergs do not show in fall. The annual mean air temperature in Alaska has risen 4 degrees F to 5 degrees F in the past 30 years-- compared with the ‘just under 1 degree F’ average worldwide, resulting with the state’s glaciers melting; vast swaths of forest are being destroyed by insects; and the permafrost thawing is sinking roads, pipelines and homes. Offshore ice is less stable, and icebergs freeze later and break up earlier, and the spring season is changing, so more shrubs and plants are growing, autumn waves are rising, and the permafrost is melting. Barrier islands are shifting, and the sea ice area that has shrunk is as big as Texas and Arizona combined, which also means polar bears are being stranded and are closer to people now. As people go, 600 residents are becoming increasingly vulnerable to violent storms like hurricanes and blizzards. Richard Glenn, a geologist and ice scientist says, “Things that were true for fathers won’t be true for sons.” Shishmaref, Alaska, which sits on a barrier island, has fewer options and less time to decide its future: either disperse its ancient tribe, or move to a new location at an enormous cost. The air of late September at the Arctic is colder than in winter, in which the dampness cut through layers of ... ... middle of paper ... ...n June again, berry-picking in August, and the ice-fishing season begin in October, and have those 600 residents, who are now vulnerable to violent storms, be completely impervious to the full force of nature. So get out there, have a green thumb, and make a difference. Works cited; Wohlforth, Charles. “As the Arctic melts, an ancient culture faces ruin.” National Wildlife (World Edition). 27 Mar. 2014 Weinhold, Bob. “Climate change and Health: a Native American experience.” Environmental Health Perspectives. 27 Mar. 2014 Roosevelt, Margot. “Vanishing Alaska.” Middle Search Plus. 27 Mar. 2014.
Katmai’s climate really depends on the season. Katmai is relatively drizzly year round with strong winds, but with mostly moderate springs and autumns. Temperatures range from -4°F to 40°F in the winter, 36-56°F in the spring and autumn, and averaging 60°F in the summer. Katmai can get anywhere from two to forty inches of rain a year. In the winter (see figure 1), it can accumulate up to 14 inches of snow a month.
In Alaska there are 3 main types of bears. They are brown bears, black bears, and polar bears.
It is an unquestioned fact that the climate is changing. There is abundant evidence that the world is becoming warmer and warmer. The temperature of the global land average temperature has increased by about 8.5 degrees centigrade from 1880 to 2012 (Karr, et al 406). The one or two degrees increase in temperature can cause dramatic and serious consequences to the earth as well as humans. More extreme weather occurs, such as heat waves and droughts. The Arctic Region is especially sensitive to global climate change. According to the data in recent decades, the temperature in the Arctic has increased by more than 2 degrees centigrade in the recent half century (Przybylak 316). Climate change has led to a series of environmental and ecological negative
(Quimby 6). Between this time period, in 6000 B.C., the basins of the upper Great Lakes became entirely ice free
The reason for this is that national park doesn’t have a rescue team for high altitude to provide. Glacier Bay national park has three different types of climatic zones. Along the Gulf of Alaska coast, there tends to be more temperatures more mild with precipitation, but not much snowfall. In the upper region of the national park, there’s much colder temperatures with a lot of snow. The lower portion of Glacier Bay has more mild temperatures and is usually rainy throughout the year.
Alaska is very cold and could get colder.I don’t know how people stay there for that long there's a lot of snow and ice and the water is freezing cold probably.The wind is another thing if you’ve ever
Even the Antarctic area has a couple of its own arctic regions. The climate of the tundra is characterized by harsh winters. The average temperature in the tundra area is about –27 degrees. But what is even worse is the long night. At night the lowest temperature recorded was –67.36 degrees.
Physical Geography In order to get an understanding of the geographical breakdown of Alaska, you must understand the size of the state. Alaska is 589,000 square miles in size which is roughly three times the size of California. Alaska is often thought of as a separate world within the United States, although it has many links to North America In physical geography the examples include mountain ranges (Rocky Mountain and Coastal Mountain systems), climate (arctic and sub arctic), glaciers, plant life (tundra and boreal forest), and animals (moose, raven). Alaska’s transportation linkage with the rest of North America became a reality in World War II with the completion of the Alaska Highway. One of the foremost physical features within the state is Mount McKinley. Mount McKinley is the highest mountain peak in North America. At some 18,000 feet, the base to peak rise is the largest of any mountain that is entirely above sea level. It is the main attraction of Denali National Park, and one of the most visited locations within Alaska.
The climates on earth are very unique depending on their placement on the planet's axis. No one really realizes how different they can be or how similar they really are. The ice caps and the arid climates are two examples of unique climates. Arid is another word for dry land, the ice caps are the cold climates. The Arid climates are covering nearly 33% of the earth’s land. The ice caps are only at the poles directly north and south of the equator, but this climate covers nearly 20% of the earth. These two climates sound very different, but no one would ever know the similarities of them until they really looked into the facts.
The indigenous population of the Canadian Arctic, also known as the Inuit (Inuk for “People”), are a proud nation of historically marginalized communities. This diaspora of scattered and remote communities are predominantly found in regions of Canada, such as Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunatsiavut, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Quebec. Although, the Inuit community also spans as far as Greenland, Denmark, Russia, and the United States of America. This community holds their cultural institutions in very sacred and high regards as observed by their passionate ambitions to pass down their traditions, methods, and spoken history to their prosperity. However, these proud descendants of the earliest Arctic tundra conquerors have had an historically
Generally though since climate more or less corresponds vegetation zones, the Tundra is located in Arctic climate areas. Temperature The Tundra suffers from a very harsh climate. Because of this fact most of the area remains barren, save for a few shrubs and lichens. Winters last from 8-10. months and the summers are cool and short.
In recent decades, the contentious issues surrounding climate change and the corresponding effects it likely exerts upon contemporary civilization has developed to become one of the most pressing areas of concern afflicting humanity (Armstrong, 1). Currently, climate change has started to demonstrate its potentially calamitous consequences upon human subsistence practices, and has even begun to alter the very environments that entire societies reside in, theoretically endangering them in both instances (Armstrong, 1). Though the hindrances inherent in climate change are potentially devastating to the preservation of modern society, the problem of climate change itself is not one that is exclusive to the contemporary era. Rather, the harmful
would snow up to depths of eight inches and sometimes it would rain and hail for
captive by a sheath of frost, as were the glacial branches that scraped at my windows, begging to get in. It is indeed the coldest year I can remember, with winds like barbs that caught and pulled at my skin. People ceaselessly searched for warmth, but my family found that this year, the warmth was searching for us.
There are salmon fisherman reindeer herders and caribou hunters who hunt and fish around the arctic tundra. The women spend their time sewing fur birch bark baskets and clothes to keep everyone warm, also to prevent frostbite Alaska s in upiat Eskimos have small villages that their ancestors lived in for hundreds of years. They also lived in larger towns built on top of ancient trading sites. More than 12600 inupiat people today live on traditional lands along the northern slope. Also about 6000 live in anchorage In the Eskimo family, everyone has a job to do. Eskimo men ...