{"id":353932,"date":"2017-08-03T14:56:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T18:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=98e7aa03e03d9882cf2df1ac0c32e6f4"},"modified":"2017-08-03T14:56:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T18:56:20","slug":"alaskas-north-slope-snow-free-season-is-lengthening-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=353932","title":{"rendered":"Alaska&#8217;s North Slope snow-free season is lengthening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the North Slope of Alaska, snow is melting earlier in the spring and the snow-in date is happening later in the fall, according to a new study by CIRES and NOAA researchers. Atmospheric dynamics and sea ice conditions are behind this lengthening of the snow-free season, the scientists found, and the consequences are far reaching\u2014including birds laying eggs sooner and iced-over rivers flowing earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the North Slope of Alaska, snow is melting earlier in the spring and the snow-in date is happening later in the fall, according to a new study by CIRES and NOAA researchers. Atmospheric dynamics and sea ice conditions are behind this lengthening of the snow-free season, the scientists found, and the consequences are far reaching&mdash;including birds laying eggs sooner and iced-over rivers flowing earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353933,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353932\/revisions\/353933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}