Sentences with phrase «when land ice»

When land ice melts and flows into the oceans global sea levels rise on average; when sea ice melts sea levels do not change measurably.

When land ice melts, meltwater flows into the ocean, contributing to sea level rise.

When sea ice is gone, that is when land ice grows the fastest.

Not exact matches

«It was just something that I was making in my kitchen because I didn't like sugar,» says Woolverton, whose company, Halo Top Creamery, has landed at No. 5 on Inc.'s 2017 list of the fastest - growing private companies in the U.S. «It wasn't until later, when I got an actual $ 20 ice cream maker, that I was like, «Oh, wow, there's something here.»»

The ice water prevents them from continuing to cook and helps maintain that vibrant color so they're not that distressing yellow - brown when they land on your holiday table.

Minutes after pleading not guilty to sweeping corruption charges, the once - powerful politician barely dodged another embarrassing fall from grace when he slipped on a mound of ice and barely avoided landing on his butt.

And when they land on Greenland's snow and ice, their ability to absorb heat from sunlight increases surface melting.

The floating mountains of ice — some of which start out Connecticut - sized or larger — scraped up bits of rock when they were parts of glaciers on land.

When black carbon lands on white ice or snow, it reduces a glacier's ability to reflect sunlight — adding another source of heat to the mix.

When you go out with your aunts and uncles to hunt or to gather, you learn to smell the air, watch the wind, understand the way the ice moves, know the land.

But to hail this transformation as unprecedented is to do our mustachioed ancestors a disservice — an act of wanton disrespect made only more unseemly when one considers that they were born and lived and went to their graves without ever once waking up on a birthday morning, scraping the ice off their laptops, and receiving salutations from a distant land in the form of an abysmal, not - quite - functioning cartoon of chickens — one year it was elephants — either attempting, or pretending, to dance.

When it's cold enough to form ice shelves that extend over the Antarctic land mass and into the ocean, much of what drops to the seafloor is sand and gravel that the glacier has picked up on its slow march from the continent's ice cap.

In permafrost, ice holds up the soil; when the ice melts, the land surface slumps, creating features known as thermokarst failures.

Yet when Scambos and his team had returned in November 2010 to repair the station, they found the Scar Inlet ice shelf too crisscrossed with exposed crevasses for their plane to land.

For instance, when the Phoenix spacecraft landed on Mars in 2008, it kicked up enough dust to reveal water ice — a surprise to its builders, who hadn't thought that the lander's relatively weak rocket engines could have moved so much material.

When the weight disappears, then the land rises and even though it has been more than 10,000 years since the ice disappeared, the land is still rising.

Scientists closely monitor the size and movement of ice shelves because when they break up, they indirectly contribute to sea level rise through their impact on land ice.

When they retreat, they leave behind a freshly polished, pristine landscape that is markedly different from land that has not been buried under an ice sheet.

The land bridge forms during ice ages, when much of the water on the planet becomes part of growing continental glaciers, making the sea level much lower than it is today,» explained Shapiro.

When all the heat accumulating in the oceans, warming the land and atmosphere and melting ice is tallied up, we see that global warming is still happening.

In one sentence: Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that when miniscule particles of airborne dust, thought to be a perfect landing site for water vapor, are modified by pollution, they change cloud properties via ice crystal number concentration and ice water content.

As one of most southerly - distributed seabirds, the Adà© lie is a species of penguin common along the entire Antarctic coast that except during spring when they come on land to breed, are highly reliant on the sea and its ice to hunt and live.

They maintain that the first Americans were the Clovis people, who crossed into the New World from Asia when a fall in sea levels at the height of the last Ice Age created a land bridge, known as Beringia, between the two continents.

When I talk to mets who question climate change, I usually try to address the specific topics they are questioning (sea ice, temp record, etc.) because they may be getting some misinformation from out in web land.

This is because when the Earth warms, snow and ice melt, uncovering darker land and ocean surfaces.

Yes, this is Canada, after all, but it's not always the land of ice and snow... it seems to save that for when you have plans to go and do something!

And then there is the really off - beat stuff like a post-apocalyptic-vampire-western-road movie, Stake Land (which is magnificent), a naughty DIY costumed hero flick from James Gun called Super and starring Ellen Page and Kevin Bacon, an Eva Green starring ethereal cloning drama from Hungary, but in English, called Womb, and a film that will make you completely reassess how you feel about Santa Claus and his elf posse when the jolly fat man is portrayed as a 25 meter tall horned demon encased in a block of ice under a Finnish mountain.

Tonya didn't possess many of the qualities the snobby figure skating world expected from its stars — she was more athlete than ice capades — but her talent was undeniable when she became the first American female skater to ever land a triple axel at the 1991 World Championships.

This skill is called Critical Element, which increases elemental damage (fire, water, thunder, ice, dragon) when landing critical hits.

When Spinney's twenty - nine - year - old son, Miles, flies up on his snowboard, «he knows he is not in control as he is taken by force up the ramp,» writes his mother, «skewing sideways as his board clips the edge and then he is hurtling, spinning up, up into the free blue sky ahead...» He lands hard on the ice and falls into a coma.

I told her that the tablet is going to get better when Ice Cream Sandwich finally lands on her tablet.

The topography for the city is known as «crag and tail» and was created during the ice age when receding glaciers scored across the land pushing soft soil aside but being split by harder crags of volcaninc rock.

Like other sea - holes or «vertical caves,» the Great Blue Hole in Belize's Lighthouse Reef actually formed on dry land, during a past ice age when the sea level was a lot lower than it is today.

«In the demo, players will be thrust into deep space terror when unwilling hero — Isaac Clarke — and all - new co-op companion — Sergeant John Carver — crash land on Tau Volantis, an unforgiving ice planet teeming with Necromorphs.

The desert, ice, and sky - themed lands in particular would become staples (with the former most often found in the second world) of the series, especially when Nintendo decided to do more 2D platformers beginning with New Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo DS in 2006, while a variety of other styles would emerge over the years as well.

Even sounds as simple as walking changed between walking on ice or walking on leafy fall grass, and my addiction to needless, unending jumping was even more enchanting when my landings sounded different based on the season.

When Greenland was settled in about 1000 AD, there obviously was arable land where now there's ice, etc..

Her work showed that polar bears, while best known for their life at sea or on sea ice pursuing seals, have been able, at least in some circumstances, to gain significant nutrition on land as well, scarfing down geese and goose eggs, grasses and other fare when sea ice is in retreat.

Charney sensitivity refers to the climate sensitivity when fast - reacting feedbacks (Planck response is a given — also, water vapor, clouds,... I think sea ice, seasonal snow) occur but with other things (land - based ice sheets,... vegetation -LRB-?)-RRB-

Thicker ice sheets can be more resistant to melting by having colder surfaces (but also depress the crust more, so that when melting occurs, it may leave ocean instead of land (isostatic adjustment being a slow process — from memory, a timescale of ~ 15,000 years?)

The video report I posted above is drawn from footage I shot five years ago, when I was lucky enough to land with an intrepid crew of scientists on the drifting, cracking, huffing, chugging sea ice drifting around the North Pole.

When the land record is attacked, believers tend to run for the ice.

The corresponding future temperatures in Greenland are comparable to those inferred for the last interglacial period 125,000 years ago, when paleoclimatic information suggests reductions of polar land ice extent and 4 to 6 m of sea level rise.

However, as Timothy explained in # 121, in addition to the direct sea level rise that occurs when ice shelves melt, there is a much larger secondary effect, in that ice shelves act as a brake, greatly reducing the rate of flow of the glaciers behind them from the land to the sea; and when ice shelves melt, the rate of glacier flow increases quite rapidly.

As the ice began to melt the land started to rebound, just as the sponge recovers shape when the metal disc is removed.

The twenty year cumulative 1620 GT loss of Antarctic Land Ice, when compared to the 26450000 GT on Antarctica is.00006 or.000003 per year on avg.

And air temperatures over exposed land surfaces should warm differently than air temperatures over sea ice, especially when open ocean separates them.

The geophysical record of the Earth tells the story of warm periods and huge dinosaurs that once flourished and then perished and ice ages and long periods when mile - deep glaciers covered the lands.

It's hard to imagine how Cowtan and Way could determine with any degree of certainty how «the hybrid method works best over land and most importantly sea ice» when there is so little surface air temperature data over sea ice.

When compared to 1951 - 1980 averages, the land average has increased 1.24 ± 0.05 °C (2.32 ± 0.09 °F) and the ocean average excluding sea ice regions has increased 0.52 ± 0.07 °C (0.94 ± 0.13 °F).