Sentences with phrase «on the iceberg surface»

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The threatened floating Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, which has been losing mass lost another giant iceberg the size of Manhattan on 16 July, just after the surface melting peaked.

David Ullman, a postdoctoral researcher at Oregon State University and lead author on the study, said there are two mechanisms through which ice sheets diminish — dynamically, from the jettisoning of icebergs at the fringes, or by a negative «surface mass balance,» which compares the amount of snow accumulation relative to melting.

Flying over the ice in a repurposed DC - 3 military airplane, seeing the massive icebergs and the miles - long fractures splitting the surface like frozen lightning bolts, she could not stop thinking about the chaotic terrain hundreds of millions of miles away on Europa.

The model was persuasive, but there were still a lot of strange features on Europa's surface, like fractures and icebergs, that Pappalardo's model could not fully explain.

Just before the collapse and its aftermath (shown as icebergs were dispersing on 7 March 2002), satellite images showed more than 2700 meltwater lakes on Larsen B's surface.

To listen for clues about how such icebergs eventually break apart, geophysicists Douglas MacAyeal of the University of Chicago and Emile Okal of Northwestern University planted seismographs on the surface of iceberg B15A, a 71 - mile - long block of ice with the distinction of being the world's largest free - floating object.

As is the case with icebergs on Earth, only the tip of the structure crests above the surface.

Unlike the great ice sheet of Antarctica, the Greenland ice sheet is melting both on its surface and also at outlet glaciers that drain the ice sheet's mass through deep fjords, where these glaciers extend out into the ocean and often terminate in dynamic calving fronts, giving up gigaton - sized icebergs at times.

On the surface, Titanic's redeeming qualities may seem as barely visible as a giant iceberg lurking in the north Atlantic sea.

Children learn about the main forms of abstract art and then go on to express themselves in a feelings iceberg (to show how they feel on the surface and underneath in different situations) This was an outstanding lesson in year 5 All images either authors own or sourced from PIXABAY.

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is about focusing on the part of the iceberg that's below the surface.

They can get stuck on various surface types and you can grab them back to refill your quiver, but this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Featured works by Charley Young: Swell China Marker on drafting film, 36» x 24» Created site specifically, Swell documents the textural surface of ephemeral icebergs through the process of frottage.

Depending on your angle, Yellow May could be a fluorescent iceberg with one threatening triangular peak, a sorrowful cardboard box bending in the wind or, when the shadow falls on its overhanging surface, a deceptively solid pyramid.

And the series, which went on show earlier this year at the Pg Gallery in Istanbul, Turkey, poses a question: just as an iceberg hides 91 per cent of its mass below the surface, how much do we hide away from our sense of loss at leaving home?

Six types of instruments aboard Aqua are to scan through the atmosphere down to the surface, gathering the most detailed data ever on water vapor in clouds, ice crystals in the air, evaporation, water in the oceans, icebergs and other sea ice, as well as glaciers and snow pack on land.

The heavily crevassed surface (extending to the distant horizon) of Jakobshavn Isbrae, one of Greenland's fastest outlet glaciers, is shown on this large iceberg that calved from the glacier's end.

My point is that in the absence of such a fine grid, one should place the measurement locations according to the well studied rules of polling: Decide on the number of types of environment: urban, desert, mountain, iceberg, tropics, etc and weight the results according to the percentage each of these types have on the surface of the globe.

Increased ice - sheet flow can raise sea level by shifting non-floating ice into icebergs or into floating - but - still - attached ice shelves, which can melt both from beneath and on the surface.

He told Earther that initially, scientists wanted to gather information on surface melt in all seasons on the Larsen C ice shelf, which sits at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula (you may remember it as the ice shelf the calved a trillion - ton iceberg last summer).

The cause of Larsen C's break this week is less clear, he said, because it's winter in the Antarctic now; there was no evidence of meltwater on the surface of the iceberg, and there aren't enough data about temperature trends in that area, both in the water and in the air.

Imagine an iceberg; what we see on the surface of the water is nothing compared to the enormity of what exists underneath.