Sentences with phrase «at grounding lines»

In addition, the study showed that ice loss rates have not only sped up at the grounding lines, but also more than 100 miles inland, compromising the entire ice sheet that the glacier helps hold back from the sea.

Note the substantial rifting that is apparent at the grounding lines closest point to the ice front.

A study published on Monday in Nature Geoscience is among the first to create a detailed snapshot of how warming ocean waters are eating away at grounding lines around the continent.

In Antarctica, dynamic thinning has accelerated at the grounding lines of the major glaciers of the Amundsen Sea embayment, and in places has penetrated to within 100 km of the ice divides.

Radar waves penetrate glaciers all the way to their base, allowing direct assessment of how the bottom profiles of the three glaciers at their grounding lines differed between 2002 and 2014.

At the grounding line, the ice detaches from the bedrock and juts out into the water as a kind of floating ledge, or ice shelf, which helps to stabilize the glacier and hold back the flow of ice behind it.

Although CryoSat - 2 is designed to measure changes in the ice sheet elevation, these can be translated into horizontal motion at the grounding line using knowledge of the glacier and sea floor geometry and the Archimedes principle of buoyancy — which relates the thickness of floating ice to the height of its surface.

Ice velocity profile across Ice Streams D and E at their grounding line.

Warming is maximum at grounding line depths (∼ 1 — 2 km) of Antarctic ice shelves (Rignot and Jacobs, 2002).

She has shown, in an ice sheet model with gravitationally self - consistent sea level, there is actually a sea level fall at the grounding line, which acts to stabilize against the marine ice sheet instability.

In fact, you can normally tell where the ice starts to float by a sharp break in slope at the grounding line.

However, they also report that «the net change for all the glaciers, weighted by glacier width at the grounding line, has been [one of] advance» (emphasis added) with an average rate of increase of +12 ± 88 m yr - 1 (see Figure 1 below).

The other is the recognition that warming ocean temperatures at the grounding line for the glaciers is driving a really strong flow and thus melting response.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/AntarcticBedrock.jpg The further it retreats, the deeper the grounding line gets, and the more efficient the thermohaline pump where heavy warmer salt water dives to replace fresh meltwater at the grounding line.

If shortening the glacier increases the depth at the grounding line, increasing the rate of loss, the situation is unstable, and the loss accelerates.

In outline, the model supposes that the rate of change of ice extent has two terms - accumulation proportional to its length, and loss at the grounding line which is proportional to the cross-section area there, which because a constant width is assumed is proportional to the depth of the ice.

Thinning preconditions the ice shelf for failure by weakening its connection to pinning points at the grounding line as the shelf becomes more buoyant.

Note the attenuation of the tide from 26 km sea ward of the grounding line (red) to at the grounding line (black) and 15 km landward of the grounding line (blue).

Steep reverse bed slope at the grounding line of the Weddell Sea sector in West Antarctica.

Further up - glacier, the ice at the grounding line is 600 - 700 m thick.

Although CryoSat - 2 is designed to measure changes in the ice sheet elevation, these can be translated into horizontal motion at the grounding line using knowledge of the glacier and sea floor geometry and the Archimedes principle of buoyancy — which relates the thickness of floating ice to the height of its surface.

At the grounding line, the ice detaches from the bedrock and juts out into the water as a kind of floating ledge, or ice shelf, which helps to stabilize the glacier and hold back the flow of ice behind it.

In other words, about 1/3 to 1/2 a kilometer of ice thickness at the grounding line was lost in just seven years.

These observations show that fairly small changes at the grounding line can be transmitted far inland, highlighting the sensitivity of ice dynamics near the marine margin.

Petermann Glacier is the fastest with a flow speed of 1000 m / year at the grounding line.

But as it converges on the outlet of the catchment it accelerates spectacularly, and is moving at thousands of metres per year by the time it starts to float at the grounding line.

Because the full suite of physical processes at the grounding line (e.g., Walker et al., 2013) in general is not represented in modern models, the possibility exists that rates produced by extant models under strong simulated forcing may be greatly in error (Nowicki et al., 2013).

Not exact matches

Enbridge had asked to leave its current Line 3 in the ground and lay new pipe, at times following a new corridor in the state.

I found a rhythm and quit thinking about the finish line and just focused on grinding out 25 at a time, and it worked...

He also held multiple senior leadership positions at HSBC in Cards, Auto Finance, Retail Banking and Wealth Management where he specialized in building new lines of business from the ground up.

I thought I grew out of the flags and the happy - clappy Jesus - is - my - boyfriend songs, that I was too wise and smart for such sentimental things but in my maturity now I want to shout out hallelujah and fling myself to the ground prostrate, in gratitude for dirt and little boys, for babies and the lines around my eyes, for Johnny Cash and pine trees at dusk, for the taste of cold water and the vineyard, for the piano and the ones from among us who stand to lead us out into the day singing.

In the Front Line television documentary «Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero,» an angry man who has lost many friends expresses rage toward God.

â $ œYou have no idea of where God is going to engineer your circumstances, no knowledge of what strain is going to be put on you either at home or abroad, and if you waste your time in over-active energies instead of getting into soak on the great fundamental truths of Godâ $ ™ s Redemption, you will snap when the strain comes; but if this time of soaking before God is being spent in getting rooted and grounded in God on the unpractical line, you will remain true to Him whatever happensâ $ (Oswald Chambers).

1) Pre-heat oven to 350 deg Fahrenheit (175 deg Cel) and line a metal baking pan or cast - iron pan 2) Blend the cashew nuts in a food processor or a blender until it becomes like fine sand (if necessary, pass the blended cashews through a sieve — and re-process the parts that are not fine enough to pass through the sieve) 3) In a large bowl, whisk the ground cashew nuts, tapioca flour, salt and baking powder together until combined 4) In another bowl, mix the honey, vanilla extract and egg together until all ingredients are well incorporated 5) Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix well until you get a homogeneous batter 6) Gently stir in 1 cup of fresh blueberries until evenly distributed 7) Pour the batter into the baking pan or cast iron pan, and evenly distribute the rest of the blueberries on top 8) Bake for around 30 minutes (or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean) 9) Let the scones cool for at least 10 minutes before slicing into 8 portions.

Malik Rosier's pass to Darrell Langham got tipped and, on a fourth - and - 10 from Tech's 43 - yard line, fell into Langham's arms as he went to the ground at the 15.

Now sheffield know what the arsenal is capable of and we should be aware as to the depths they can go to grind out a win.Recently the results have been going our way but that can all change in a flash.We ought to be careful at all times.Our players need not to be overconfident and relax, they need to keep the fire burning to make us supporters proud.I have heard that they are now self guided.They conduct meetings on how they will be winning games.Thats the attitude and i also hope wenger is listening so he does not go all messing with the starting line ups especially during the uefa games.As for tommorows game wenger can try out the reserves team.

Mackey's lead dog crossed the finish line first, at which point Mackey collapsed to the ground and his team stopped, straddling the line as Swenson and his team zoomed past.

Remember if you aren't at the head of the class when it comes to the development of young talent, which means eyes on the ground everywhere, a vast array of connections with soccer associations throughout Europe and beyond and a manager willing to properly train and play said blue chippers, (like the 90s Arsenal or clubs like the modern day Monaco and Dortmund) you need to spend to win... anything in between is highly problematic... failure to make the necessary changes leaves you in the proverbial «no man's land» and that is currently where we reside... it's difficult to get out of this rut... just ask either of the Milan teams... next step after that is being known as a «seller», which could be us already if and when Sanchez leaves... there are only two teams that have worn this moniker in recent times and had some decent success and that is Athletico Madrid and Dortmond, which only occurred when they both brought in new, charismatic leaders in Simmone & Klopp... the odds that Wenger could conjure up the magic to repeat the performances of a bygone era are incredibly low, so why prolong the agony... he's not willing to create the hierarchy necessary to go the youth route and he's unwilling to put his team's potential success ahead of his job security by laying it on the line with Moustache, so it's time to place all your chips in the middle or go gently into that good night

You may angle for him at all times with a running or lying ground line; except in leaping time, when you use an artificial fly.

The fact that he plays disciplined, changes direction so well and also lines up all over the place, including at three technique at times, also leads me to believe that he will have few troubles transitioning to putting his hand on the ground as a defensive end.

She knows the game, used to be his caddie, and is almost always on the ground at these events walking close by on the rope line.

The Daily Express reported yesterday that Aubameyang was at Arsenal's training ground ahead of completing a medical, and it seems unlikely the player would have travelled to London so late on in the transfer window if there were serious doubts about getting the deal over the line.

The tip should enter the ground halfway between the toe line and the target line, and the shaft should replicate the angle of your club shaft at address.

Times are changing, we can sign top players now, which means players need to give 110 % if they want position is starting line up, look at cazorla, last season his defending was abysmal, but he hit ground and he is now great, fight for places are great, ask szczhesny, walcott is behind ox, and not to mention sanchez, so he have 1 year to start playing or he will be goer!!!

He's a fabulous receiver who can be lined up at any skill position, and a tough runner who produced both yards and touchdowns on the ground AND through the air.

1 - 1 purely because wenger will pick wrong line up, Santi at 32 can not play 3 games in a week especially the role he plays he covers a lot of ground & against psg he got run ragged by younger / stronger midfielders.

We need a dependable back line (and goalkeeper) that are coached and drilled to defend.Even the simple and obvious seen foreign to us at times.Ever noticed how awful we are at defending corners?The number of times when we are caught out not picking up when teams take a short one against us - it's schoolboy defending that makes a mockery of what we actually do all week on the training ground.

It ended with Swann catching a rocket from Bradshaw that traveled at least 70 yards in the air, Swann jumping and taking it on the Dallas five - yard line and gliding in for the touchdown, and Bradshaw barely conscious on the ground after being decked by Cliff Harris on a safety blitz.

What followed was a five - hour grind of a second round at the 2018 Masters, where Tiger ducked and jumped the cut line throughout the afternoon.

Reds fans organise a «coach welcome» for their Premier League rivals, lining a side street where the team buses were known to be arriving at the ground