Sentences with phrase «lakes ice cover»

Expertise: climate change, Greenland Ice Sheet, ice sheet modeling, sea level rise, Antarctica, Great Lakes ice cover

Wang, J., X. Bai, H. Hu, A. Clites, M. Colton, and B. Lofgren, 2012: Temporal and spatial variability of Great Lakes ice cover, 1973 - 2010.

Decreased ice cover: Increasingly mild winters have shortened the time between when a lake freezes and when it thaws.92 Scientists have documented a relatively constant decrease in Great Lakes ice cover since the 1970s, particularly for Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Ontario.

From known associations of individual aquatic species with various environmental conditions, the researchers conclude that summers have lengthened and lake ice cover has diminished across much of the Arctic since the mid-1800s.

Not exact matches

Over the past two winters, there wasn't much ice cover on the Great Lakes.

• Lake Erie's water temperatures are higher and there's less ice cover.

On Lake Erie, however, it's another story where there's so much ice cover the removal of the ice boom has been delayed.

Now the team is packing up their tools and mobile labs so that they can be shipped out to the ice sheet for the real deal: Boring through a half - mile of ice covering Lake Whillans.

Seismological observations may not be needed at Yellowstone Lake, but could be useful for monitoring more remote lakes for long - term changes to ice cover duration.

Though all subglacial lakes are good analogues for life beyond Earth, the hypersaline nature of the Devon lakes makes them particularly tantalizing analogues for ice - covered moons in our solar system.

Scientists estimate the lake itself is roughly 14 million years old — the age of the ice sheet that covers it — and that the water currently in the lake is roughly 1 million years old.

Subglacial lakes provide earthly analogs of ice - covered oceans deep beneath the surface of moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn.

And at high global latitudes, cold lakes normally covered by ice in the winter are seeing less ice year after year — a change that could affect all parts of the food web, from algae to freshwater seals.

This is especially true for lakes at high latitudes that are covered in ice each winter but may see less ice as temperatures rise.

Survival of the Asian carp in the deep, windblown, and, in winter, ice - covered waters of the Great Lakes is one thing, but development of a breeding population there is quite another.

Unfortunately, most of it is imprisoned in underground reservoirs and in permanent ice and snow cover; relatively little is stored in easily accessible and replenishable lakes and rivers.

That's important — changing sea ice, changing lake ice, changing snow cover, increasing shrubs — but I wanted the book to enrich that picture, by describing those changes through the human lives that experience them.

What is now Lake Whillans was probably covered and uncovered by the ice sheet dozens of times as the climate swung back and forth over the past 20 million years.

Thus the entire lake food web is impacted by the degree of ice cover from year to year and the degree of winter productivity.

These valleys are characterized by harsh katabatic winds, glaciers, sandy surroundings, and permanent ice - covered lakes, which harbour the most exceptional life - in - ice - forms I have ever seen.

Ice covers play a major role in determining the environmental properties of lakes.

In this study we have monitored the liquid water column of these permanent ice - covered lakes.

Currently, most lakes in the Alaskan Arctic are covered with ice in May, but that could change with time.

She embedded time - lapse video cameras in the scree - covered ice peaks, which filmed interior glacial lakes every hour for two weeks.

«Ice - covered lakes in the dry valleys of Antarctica are a good analogue of what we had in Kaffeklubben [before 1960],» says Perren.

«They've been studied mainly as an analog to [Saturn's moon] Europa, where you've got an entire planet that's an ice covered lake.»

The DNA that Rogers» group found probably did not come from animals that lived in Lake Vostok before it was covered in ice.

It never stops bouncing from shore to shore, even when ice covers the lake.

According to George Leskevich, a physical research scientist with the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich., there is also a long - term downward trend in Great Lakes wintertime ice cover, although there is considerable year - to - year variability.

Since IPCC (2001) the cryosphere has undergone significant changes, such as the substantial retreat of arctic sea ice, especially in summer; the continued shrinking of mountain glaciers; the decrease in the extent of snow cover and seasonally frozen ground, particularly in spring; the earlier breakup of river and lake ice; and widespread thinning of antarctic ice shelves along the Amundsen Sea coast, indicating increased basal melting due to increased ocean heat fluxes in the cavities below the ice shelves.

New England, for example, now has over 22 fewer days of ice cover on its lakes than it did 50 years ago.

«A lake doesn't go to sleep when it's covered with a blanket of ice and snow,» said Liz Blood, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research.

For Lake Suwa, that means more years where full ice cover never occurs.

In «The American,» George Clooney brings his most somber game face to the role of a hit man named Jack, who finds himself ambushed on an isolated, ice - covered Swedish lake.

YELLOWKNIFE, Canada — Driving on an ice - covered lake — it's a fundamentally scary proposition, right?

On one terrible night almost a year later, Amanda loses nearly everything that is dearest to her when her sister mysteriously disappears and is later found drowned beneath the ice that covers the lake.

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Thanks for the links about Lake Erie ice cover — the chart is very interesting, as is the paper.

Remote sensing data shows that the area covered by ice lakes within the Qomolangma National Nature Reserve in Tibet increased to 114 square kilometres in 2013, up from 100 square kilometres in 1990.

In fall or early winter, the cryosphere expands, as thin ice starts to cover oceans, rivers, and lakes.

They lie at least 60 feet (20m) thick under the lake, and cover a slice of time running well into the last ice age, around 25,000 years ago.

The Winter Alberta Clipper dries out the Great Lakes if there is no ice cover.

WASHINGTON, May 9 (by Karin Zeitvogel for RIA Novosti)-- A team of scientists from the United States, Russia and Germany who drilled into the bottom of a Siberian lake, found that the Arctic was not covered in a sheet of ice 3.6 million years ago as it is today, but was warm and forested, a study published Thursday says.

A team of scientists from the United States, Russia and Germany who drilled into the bottom of a Siberian lake, found that the Arctic was not covered in a sheet of ice 3.6 million years ago as it is today, but was warm and forested, a study published Thursday says.

Atmospheric teleconnection patterns associated with severe and mild ice cover on the Great Lakes, 1963 — 2011

These methods have been significantly improved by fully coupling the hydrologic cycle among land, lake, and atmosphere.94, 95 Without accounting for that cycle of interactions, a study96 concluded that increases in precipitation would be negated by increases in winter evaporation from less ice cover and by increases in summer evaporation and evapotranspiration from warmer air temperatures, under a scenario of continued increases in global emissions (SRES A2 scenario).

When discussing artic ice, shouldn't ice covered lakes be included as well?

Given the evidence and remaining uncertainties, there is very high confidence in this key message, except high confidence for lake levels changing, and high confidence that declines in ice cover will continue to lengthen the commercial navigation season.

My query: how can there be ice cover on the shores when there is so much heat energy in the Great Lakes water system?