Sentences with phrase «odden ice tongue»

However, it is often overlooked that the major ice shelves in the Ross and Weddell Seas and the many smaller shelves and ice tongues buttressing outlet glaciers are also vulnerable to atmospheric warming.»

In our flights, because of the difference in gravitational attraction associated with the presence of water instead of rock beneath the ice tongue, our airborne gravimeter was sufficiently sensitive to duplicate the Autosub measurements and to determine the shape of the cavity beyond the ridge.

Our most unusual experiment in this region was a two - day series of flying a low - level 5 by 10 km grid over the Pine Island Glacier (PIG) ice tongue.

Lucchitta, B.K., Mullins, K.F., Smith, C.E., and Ferrigno, J.G., 1994, Velocities of the Smith Glacier Ice Tongue and Dotson Ice Shelf, Walgreen Coast, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica: Annals of Glaciology, v. 20, p. 101 - 109.

As higher sea levels lifting the glacier, then the tides would constantly flex the ice tongues breaking and releasing the ice opening up the ice flow «cork in the bottle».

In discussing their findings, Fountain et al. report that «no significant spatial or temporal patterns of terminus position, flow speed, or calving emerged, implying that the conditions associated with ice tongue stability are unchanged,» at least over the past six decades.

As higher sea levels lifting the glacier, then the tides would constantly flex the ice tongues breaking and releasing the ice opening up the ice flow «cork in the bottle».

One of our hopes with these flights is to understand the detailed topography under the floating ice tongue.

Numerous processes contribute to this, including the removal of buttressing ice shelves (i.e., ice tongues floating on water but in places anchored on islands or underwater rocks) or the lubrication of the ice sheet base by meltwater trickling down from the surface through cracks.

In some cases the ice tongues can turn back towards the main ice pack and vessels near the ice edge can be trapped.

«Knowing the ridge is there lets us understand why the wide ice tongue that used to be in front of the glacier has broken up,» Robin said.

The glacier was renowned for an exposed ice tongue poking 40 kilometres out from the Antarctic continent but in early 2010 a 97 - kilometre long iceberg smashed into Mertz, resulting in the calving of a massive chunk of the ice tongue.

In the Amundsen Sea Embayment region of West Antarctica, where glaciers terminate in the ocean and extend over the waters via floating ice tongues, six major glaciers are experiencing rapid rates of retreat.

The obstacles to get to the ice shelf were extreme, but the science goal was simple: to measure how fast the sea was melting the 37 - mile long ice tongue from underneath by drilling through the ice shelf.

Its extensive ice tongue makes it particularly susceptible to basal melt processes, due to the area and duration of exposure of the glacier base.

Instead, the glacier develops a floating ice tongue - a shelf of ice that extends from the main body of the glacier out onto the waters of the fjord.

Though the formation of the 700 square - kilometer iceberg could be a purely natural event — the result of a floating ice tongue growing too long and losing its balance on the sea — some scientists suspect that changes in Pine Island Glacier are due to changing conditions below.

Upon reaching the sea, a number of these large outlet glaciers extend into the water with a floating «ice tongue».

In Greenland, where the glaciers empty onto narrow fjords, the ice shelves, also known as ice tongues, are far less extensive.

If the disappearance of the Odden Ice Tongue is evidence of a weakening or shutdown of the deep convection, this may be a cause for immediate worry.

The Odden Ice Tongue is the «hook» seen in this curve just to the west of Greenland and north of Iceland.

The so - called «Odden Ice Tongue» did not appear in January, February or March, as may be seen from these graphics depicting monthly extent derived from satellite images:

J. C. Comiso, P. Wadhams, L. T. Pedersen, R. A. Gersten, Seasonal and interannual variability of the Odden ice tongue and a study of environmental effects JGR.

Not exact matches

This one moment when you're sitting at an old dairy farm, watching your son lick a strawberry ice cream cone, the back of your thighs are stuck to the chair, and he offers you a taste, and you slurp the half - melted sides, and you are tasting something vital, it's so hot outside, he's got strawberry ice cream on his ears, and you lick him clean with your own tongue, he's laughing.

Juicy chunks of red ripened peperoncini light a fire on our tongues, nicely balanced with the cool sweet ice cream.

I loved to squish them slightly as they got melty, running my tongue around the edge to catch the ice cream.

The sweet plantain churros, the creamy ice cream, and the salted caramel provided a perfect counterpoint to my numbing tongue.

Tongues were cooled with shots of ice - cold Russian vodka and flutes of dry champagne from the former Soviet state of Georgia.

While these fudgesicles are not quite ice cream, the way they coat your tongue with chocolaty goodness makes them every bit as delicious as the ice cream we desire without all of the work.

Seasonal creamers, savory yogurt, decadent ice cream, velvety dairy alternatives — dairy is a medium for layered flavor profiles that awaken the senses and tickle the tongue.

This cake's perfect salty caramel icing, with its burnt - sugar depth, dissolves almost instantly on your tongue.

This roast peach and oatmeal ice - cream is one of those recipes where I just knew the flavours would work; I could taste them on my tongue before I even began planning.

Draw smile and tongue (if desired) with red decorating icing.

Some people believe that the total elimination of sugary sweets works best for them, however if you want to revel in the occasional delight of ice cream melting on your tongue on a breezy summer afternoon, go ahead and try a delicious scoop of homemade vanilla ice cream from Nourishing Traditions.

You could try letting the ice melt on your tongue a bit, or even try munching on a carrot as a crunching alternative.

And there are potential problems beyond feeding: untreated tongue - tie can cause later difficulty with teeth, speech, cleaning the teeth with the tongue, swallowing pills, licking ice cream cones, and kissing.

But because tongue - tie limits the range of motion of a baby's tongue, the condition can cause problems with feeding, swallowing, and speech — not to mention licking an ice cream cone down the road.

Have your child lick an ice cube or popsicle to numb the tongue and temporarily shut down the taste buds.

If they enjoy an ice cream, they might get bothered when the cold texture of the ice cream touches their teeth or tongue.

Ice out your wrist, and send those tongues wagging when you put this on.

Ultimately the cold ice anchoring Austfonna's tongue to the ground disintegrated.

The Ross Ice Shelf, a thick, floating tongue of solid ice the size of Spain, is the biggest of the many such barriers that ring Antarctica and keep its ice sheets from sliding into the sIce Shelf, a thick, floating tongue of solid ice the size of Spain, is the biggest of the many such barriers that ring Antarctica and keep its ice sheets from sliding into the sice the size of Spain, is the biggest of the many such barriers that ring Antarctica and keep its ice sheets from sliding into the sice sheets from sliding into the sea.

And it's the air bubbles in ice cream that, by interrupting contact with the tongue and palate, prevent stickiness.

There are researchers who create robots that move like snakes; some study human movements and functions by making a humanoid robot, and from there they train the robot to play table ice - hockey, dance, and even juggle; some work together to design an electronic wheel chair that can be controlled by the tongue; some are interested in creating a database of human facial expression that can be used in creating animation and facial pattern recognition research.

Most of the modern languages in Eurasia can be traced back to a single mother tongue that existed around the time of the last ice age

Its floating front edge, the Totten ice shelf, sticks out like a tongue over the water and acts as a buttress for the giant glacier, slowing its movement toward the ocean.

At the head of the gorge, glacial debris was plastered on both sides of the valley, confirming that a massive tongue of ice once plunged down a nearby 25,000 - foot - high peak.

Vast accumulations of dusty ice appear from the poles to the midlatitudes; in some places the ice has seemingly formed glacierlike tongues more than a half mile wide.

Scientists previously thought that only glaciers with sturdy, cold ice, such as in Greenland, could form floating tongues.

Ice shelves are floating tongues of ice that extend from grounded glaciers on laIce shelves are floating tongues of ice that extend from grounded glaciers on laice that extend from grounded glaciers on land.