Sentences with phrase «northern ice field»

However, there is both theoretical and observational evidence that melting now occurs on the horizontal surfaces of the Kilimanjaro Northern Ice Field, and contributes to ablation [Moelg and Hardy 2004; Thompson et al 2002].

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Gas hydrates — a mixture of ice and methane — are found only under high pressure and at cold temperatures, and they are expected to make up a significant portion of the energy mix once existing oil fields dwindle, says David Scott, manager of the Northern Resources Development Program for Natural Resources Canada.

«Based on the UN climate panel's report on sea level rise, supplemented with an expert elicitation about the melting of the ice sheets, for example, how fast the ice on Greenland and Antarctica will melt while considering the regional changes in the gravitational field and land uplift, we have calculated how much the sea will rise in Northern Europe,» explains Aslak Grinsted.

A team of scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and led by Northern Illinois University physicist and Argonne materials scientist Zhili Xiao has created a new material, called «rewritable magnetic charge ice,» that permits an unprecedented degree of control over local magnetic fields and could pave the way for new computing technologies.

Surface velocity field of northern Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica, Annals of Glaciology, Vol.

For example, the instrument was part of a massive field campaign in northern Alaska aimed to improve our understanding of the relationship between particle size and composition and their ability to form warm and ice clouds.

In the winter months, this small island nation is transformed into a magical world of black lava fields blanketed in snow, waterfalls flowing amid shimmering ice, and night skies painted with the northern lights and their great cascades of color.

As indicated in the previous outlook for the region, fields of rotten multiyear ice persist off the northern coast of Alaska, with potential impacts on marine mammals (providing a platform for foraging walrus well into the season) and ship traffic.

Juneau ice field wipes out Juneau, and glaciers reform in the northern US states and at higher elevations.

Glacials happen when the 100,000 year Milankovitch orbital cycle is such that summer irradiance in high northern latitudes is at its lowest point — allowing the persistence of ice fields.

Bindschadler, R. A., Fahnestock, M. A., Skvarca, P. & Scambos, T. A. Surface - velocity field of the northern Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica.