Sentences with phrase «american ice cap»
Thompson believes that these increases seen in the South American ice cap, especially in lead, show the first impact of colonial metalworking activity.
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«There are two main «ice» scenarios to consider; ice - capped stratovolcanoes such as those that dominate the South American and Western USA; volcanoes beneath large ice sheets, such as those in Iceland and Antarctica.
Academy Award - winning Cold War thriller based on Alister MacLean's bestseller stars Rock Hudson as an American nuclear submarine captain in a deadly race against the Soviets to find a downed satellite beneath the polar ice cap.
Working with various collaborators, I have created installations dealing with the effects of the melting of the polar ice cap (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2014; McLean Project for the Arts, 2015), the destruction of coral reefs worldwide (Artists and Makers, 2016) and the migration of infectious diseases (Otis street Arts Project, 2017).
Finally, if the North American hydrologic cycle is enhanced, and / or Greenland's southern ice caps melt, the increased fresh water runoff from land areas could dilute the ocean surface water and critically reduce its salinity.
Blocking high pressure systems affect all regions of the planet, and a team from Rutgers University recently reported in the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate that such blocking highs could stop cold Canadian air from reaching Greenland, and thus accelerate the surface melting of the Arctic's largest ice cap.