Sentences with phrase «across ice stream»

Velocity pattern in a transect across ice stream B, Antarctica.

«It was literally one of the first days that we were driving across the ice stream, doing what we thought was a pretty standard survey, that I saw the bed of the ice just dropping away,» Bingham said.

Not exact matches

A new three - dimensional higher - order thermomechanical ice sheet model: Basic sensitivity, ice stream development, and ice flow across subglacial lakes.

That afternoon I walked cautiously toward Dr. Burt's truck, through streams of tears and across a solid sheet of ice on the ground.

It's a journey even Indiana Jones would have to brace himself for: an hour - long rainforest hike, a swim across an ice - cold stream into the narrow mouth of a cave, and then a slippery descent into the dark, cavernous depths where bats, spiders, and ancient scorpion - like amblypygi lurk in the nooks.

The record temperatures are already resounding across the Arctic and beyond — melting the sea ice cover, thawing the permafrost and soil, and shaking up the orderly patterns of the jet stream.

In an article on September 12, I reported on a 2012 paper by Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University and Stephen Vavrus of the University of Wisconsin, which showed that the loss of Arctic summer sea ice cover is adding enough heat to the ocean and atmosphere that it is helping to redirect the jet stream — the fast - moving high - altitude river of air that steers storm systems across the northern hemisphere.