Sentences with phrase «ocean ice sheath»
When both polar ocean ice sheaths are tracked together, this year is back below the quarter - century sea - ice average again.
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At Enceladus's south pole, plumes of water spurt up from an ocean hidden under a thick sheath of ice.
The vast, scrabbly sheath of sea ice drifting on the Arctic Ocean ended its annual summer retreat this week, and the result was sobering.
The Arctic Ocean's shift to having a more Antarctic - style sheath of floating sea ice — present in winter, absent in summer — will not happen with a glaring headline.
The unusual pattern of atmospheric high and low pressure over and around the Arctic that has contributed to the recent snow and cold from Alabama to Washington, to East Anglia, England (and rain and warmth along the west coast of Greenland) is also an important influence on the shifting sheath of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean.