Sentences with phrase «ice areas as»

I've followed the links to the data, and just had a look at the Southern Sea Ice areas as recorded there.

Until then, I will be using December Antarctic sea - ice area as a surrogate measure of meridional up - welling.

There must be some huge pressure ridges in that particular ice area as a result.

This paper reports that during the Holocene optimal there was half the summer (permanent) ice area as during 2007.

Not exact matches

Schoep's Ice Cream gradually has expanded and, in addition to 17 direct store delivery trucks covering the Midwest area, it now ships products to 45 states in the continental United States as well as Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.

As Backes tumbled to the ice and fell into the crease area, the back of Yanni Gourde's skate appeared to make contact just below Backes» right knee.

If cleaning the house, preparing the food, and then cleaning up after the party doesn't appeal to you, consider having the party at another location such as an ice rink, a bowling alley, a local park, a movie theatre, the local mall, or even at an area museum.

Other planned improvements include new lighting, a warming house and a shelter near the area where the ice skating rink is constructed during the winter, as well as new storage areas.

He said the proposal called for an area that had been used as an ice skating rink to be excavated.

The focal point of the expansion, however, will be the construction of two professional - size ice rinks, team rooms, a pro shop, concession area, meeting and party rooms, as well as locker rooms and office space for the Wolves.

Saw a great hack in family fun for ice cream at parties: scoop out single scoops in cupcake liners and leave in freezer until party time, that way you don't have to deal with the mess of ice cream during the party, and it's a bit cheaper than dixie cups (which in our area aren't really great quality as it is).

Gurnee - area residents now use ice skating rinks in such communities as Zion, Northbrook and Buffalo Grove.

While hooked onto zipping cable for guiding purposes, trekkers can stay safe while learning about First Nation tribes that originally inhabited the area, as well as caves that were created millions of years ago as a result of glacier ice.

Place witch hazel pads or ice packs in the area to lessen swelling and discomfort (this can ease pain in the perineal area as well).

County Executive Rob Astorino announced plans to convert the area, which will be restored as a reflecting pool during the summer and an ice rink during fall and winter months.

Elsewhere many smaller ice sheets and glaciers grew, vast areas turned into tundra and deserts expanded as the planet became drier.

In areas that are both bright and cold, water ice may be present on the surface as frost.

Overland recently co-authored a study predicting an ice - free Arctic summer in the first half of this century and said he will soon be releasing additional data projecting that an area 100 miles north of Alaska will witness open water five months out of the year by 2030, as opposed to the current two months.

Rising temperatures have reduced the area's sea ice cover, which serves as an important habitat not just for Adelie penguins but also for krill.

Darker colors are colder, and brighter colors are warmer, so the rift between the iceberg and the ice shelf appears as a thin line of slightly warmer area.

The mass media (to the limited extent they covered the issue) were confused, sometimes predicting a balmy globe with coastal areas flooded as the ice caps melted, sometimes warning of the prospect of a catastrophic new ice age.

This finding supports the idea that the earlier identification of comb jellies in this area was wrong, and that the Arctic comb jelly is found in the Baltic Sea as an Ice Age relic, not as an alien species.

Major challenges in the near future include assigning clearer attribution to sea ice as a primary driver of such dynamics, especially in terrestrial systems, and addressing pressures arising from human use of arctic coastal and near - shore areas as sea ice diminishes.

This is of great concern to ecologists because the populations in these areas include pockets with the highest levels of genetic diversity, thanks to their ancestors having survived major climate change events such as ice ages.

After all, it is those areas that are closest to the melting point that can tip precipitously — as did Arctic Ocean sea ice in recent years.

The slipperiness, caused by films of water spread over large areas, helps ascertain how quickly a melting ice sheet will slide into the sea as the climate warms — and thus how quickly sea levels will rise.

There is currently no significant commercial fishing in the area, but fisheries managers expect it to become a target for commercial fishers chasing cod and snow crab as ice melts and fisheries shift north.

In previously ice - rich areas such as the Beaufort Gyre off the Alaskan coast or the region south of Spitsbergen, the sea ice is considerably thinner now than it normally is during the spring.

Using sediment gathered from the ocean floor in different areas of the world, the researchers were able to confirm that as the ice sheets started melting and the climate warmed up at the end of the last ice age, 18,000 years ago, the marine nitrogen cycle started to accelerate.

AWI researchers observed a considerable decrease in the thickness of the sea ice as early as the late summer of 2015, even though the overall ice covered area of the September minimum ultimately exceeded the record low of 2012 by approximately one million square kilometres.

«For example, in some parts of the Arctic, such as the Chukchi Sea, polar bears appear healthy, fat and reproducing well — this may be because this area is very ecologically productive, so you can lose some ice before seeing negative effects on bears.

Responses to climate - linked factual questions, such as whether Arctic sea ice area has declined compared with 30 years ago, were politicized as if we were asking for climate - change opinions.

«If protective ice shelves were suddenly lost in the vast areas around the Antarctic margin where reverse - sloping bedrock (where the bed on which the ice sheet sits deepens toward the continental interior, rather than toward the ocean) is more than 1,000 meters deep, exposed grounding line ice cliffs would quickly succumb to structural failure as is happening in the few places where such conditions exist today,» the researchers point out.

Pitulko's team found 383 stone artefacts in the area, as well as many bones from ice - age Siberian animals including mammoths, reindeer, woolly rhino and bison.

As the Arctic sea - ice reaches its summer minimum extent, it is clear that it has yet again shrunk to one of the smallest areas in recent decades, 10 % above the record minimum set last year.

The Arctic ice zone was controversial; as a result, it is one of 14 areas surrounded by brackets on the list, indicating disagreement among the delegates to the advisory body.

Data suggest that although the ice - rich rings have only 15 % of Chariklo's surface area, they reflect almost three times as much light on an area - to - area comparison.

A group of scientists and representatives of indigenous Arctic communities has identified areas around the Arctic Ocean that they consider especially worthy of consideration for protection as sea ice recedes and industry poises to enter the increasingly accessible high northern latitudes.

For their work Maksym and co-investigators Guy Williams from the University of Hobart, Tasmania and Jeremy Wilkinson of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK, used a robot known as an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to cruise under ice in three regions near the coast and measure the thickness directly over a much larger area.

Climate change hasn't been kind to the Arctic Circle, as evidenced by the decrease of seasonal ice in the area and the encroachment of temperate species.

The area of the Arctic Ocean covered by sea ice usually hits its winter peak in early to mid-March, as the freeze season ends with the re-emergence of the sun above the horizon.

The record - low winter maximum doesn't necessarily herald a record low end - of - summer minimum come September, as summer weather patterns have a large effect on sea ice area.

In turn, we can see which animals were dispersing into new areas, particularly as an ice age was ending in the southern continents and environmental conditions were becoming more favorable for reptiles and amphibians.»

And, as Walt Meier of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center noted here, Antarctic sea ice already covers a huge area — it doesn't take much growth for it to set a new record.

To determine how much ice would melt around ice - free areas over the next 80 years as the climate warms, Ms Lee worked alongside colleagues from UQ, CSIRO, the Australian Antarctic Division and the British Antarctic Survey.

«Even though some Arctic locations haven't been as warm this year, you can still melt through 3 feet of the ice, whereas in the past, you might have needed to melt through 6 or 8 feet of ice in that area,» Meier said.

As the ice thins and once - white areas turn to dark open waters, solar energy is absorbed rather than reflected back into space.

The methane can also be trapped in the ice that rapidly forms in these open areas of water — also known as polynya — in the winter.

Previous research estimated that it covered much of western Canada as late as 12,500 years ago, but new data shows that large areas in the region were ice - free as early as 1,500 years earlier.

Amazingly, under all that ice lies a lake of liquid water, called Lake Vostok, that is 700 meters deep and as big in area as Lake Ontario.