Sentences with phrase «based ice melt»

This accounts for 65 % of total sea level rise over the last 4 decades with the other components being land - based ice melt in antarctica (yes, land based ice levels are dropping even as sea ice levels are expanding) greenland and land - based glaciers.

The Illinois Poison Control (IPC) blog says about salt - based ice melt including magnesium chloride, «Always call the IPC if your kiddo samples some of this stuff.»

Typical warning label found on rock salt and salt - based ice melt products: «Danger!

A recent national survey shows that 60 % of American households use rock salt and salt - based ice melt products during the cold winter months.

Once you decide to avoid salt - based ice melting products, the question is obvious: Is there a safe alternative to rock salt?

Sodium chloride is the main ingredient in many of the most popular salt - based ice melting products on the market like Safe Step 8300 and Road Runner ice melt.

The fate of the ice sheets has a direct impact on populations worldwide: as the land - based ice melts, it raises sea level, and that can threaten coastal communities and economies.

Not exact matches

Wet ingredients: 4 tbsp vegan butter, melted — or you can use coconut oil 150 ml plant - based milk of choice, warmed 7g sachet of yeast 3 tbsp coconut sugar — or you can use brown sugar Vegan ice cream to serve - we love Booja Booja

Stracciatella Ice Cream Cheesecake Squares — a thin, raw gooey brownie base topped with a creamy concoction of cashews, lime juice, coconut milk and maple syrup, a generous stir in of chocolate chips and a melted drizzle of warm chocolate sauce.

White chocolate, lime and candied kumquat truffles based on a truffle recipe from the gorgeous The Sweet Life: Desserts from Chanterelle 1/3 cup (80 ml) heavy cream 225g (8oz) good white chocolate, finely chopped finely grated zest of 1 lime 1 1/2 teaspoons lime juice heaping 1/3 cup finely chopped candied kumquats * icing sugar or cocoa powder, for rolling Place cream and chocolate in a heatproof bowl and melt over a saucepan of simmering water, stirring until creamy and smooth.

Even directly out of the freezer, an oil - based cube of herbs will soften and melt much faster than a ice cube of equivalent size.

We break that up into chunks that get nice and chewy once the pop is frozen and it's just kind of magical when it's mixed with the melted ice cream base of sweetened coconut milk and sour cream.

The cream cheese frosting on carrot cake really defines the dessert, so I added cream cheese into the actual melted butterscotch that creates the base of the bark AND I drizzled cream cheese icing on top.

Melted ice cream enriches the «custard» base.

Climate modelers do not include effects on land - based ice in these regions because they can not reduce them to equations, such as x amount of extra heat equals y amount of melting.

«Very old ice probably exists in small isolated patches at the base of the ice sheet that have not yet been identified, but in many places it has probably melted and flowed out into the ocean.»

Alaskan and the Canadian Arctic land - based glacier melt ranks with that of the Greenland Ice Sheet as important contributors to global sea - level rise that is already underway.

If there's anything more complicated than the global forces of thermal expansion, ice sheet melt and ocean circulation that contribute to worldwide sea - level rise, it might be the forces of real estate speculation and the race - based historical housing patterns that color present - day gentrification in Miami.

But scientists increasingly attribute much of the observed grounding line retreat — particularly in West Antarctica — to the influence of warmer ocean water seeping beneath the ice shelves and lapping against the bases of glaciers, melting the ice from the bottom up.

When parts of the ice melt, liquid water trickles to the base and this can lubricate the underside of the ice sheet, allowing it to slide more quickly into the sea and drive up sea levels at a faster rate.

The conclusion that limiting CO2 below 450 ppm will prevent warming beyond two degrees C is based on a conservative definition of climate sensitivity that considers only the so - called fast feedbacks in the climate system, such as changes in clouds, water vapor and melting sea ice.

For six weeks the researchers collected radar data to map changes in ice shelf thickness to understand the processes that contribute to melting at its base.

Based on what we know, we can expect the rapid ice loss to continue for a long time yet, especially if ocean - driven melting of the ice shelf in front of Pine Island Glacier continues at current rates,»

Shifts in subglacial drainage patterns change the location of these basal channels, which could impact the ice shelf's stability by unevenly distributing the melting at the base.

The international team of co-authors, led by Peter Clark of Oregon State University, generated new scenarios for temperature rise, glacial melting, sea - level rise and coastal flooding based on state - of - the - art climate and ice sheet models.

Each year, some 23 million metric tons of sodium chloride - based deicer is applied to North America's roads to melt away snow and ice.

«We found areas where the ice melts at the base next to other areas where the base is extremely cold.»

Instead, based on what he had seen in ice shelves on Earth, he guessed the warm plumes would melt the ice above them, creating pockets of liquid water embedded within the shell.

«The base driver of sea ice melt ultimately is anthropogenic greenhouse gases,» Walt Meier, an Arctic expert at NASA, said.

The model simulates melting at the base of the Amundsen Sea ice shelves at current rates over several decades.

«Based on the UN climate panel's report on sea level rise, supplemented with an expert elicitation about the melting of the ice sheets, for example, how fast the ice on Greenland and Antarctica will melt while considering the regional changes in the gravitational field and land uplift, we have calculated how much the sea will rise in Northern Europe,» explains Aslak Grinsted.

Deep ocean water, which is relatively warm, has been melting portions of the ice sheet at its base.

Based on CO2 levels when the ice sheet formed, the researchers report that Antarctica's ice will be «dramatically» more vulnerable to melting once CO2 surpasses 600 parts per million in the atmosphere.

Most Antarctic researchers chalk this up to warm seawater melting the floating ice shelves at their bases; seawater temperatures there have risen since the 1970s, in part because of global temperature increases.

But DeConto says that Hindmarsh's work predicts future ice loss based on what's happened so far, and doesn't take into account processes like ice surface melt that haven't kicked in yet.

Melting at the ice sheet base would refill the lakes in 20 to 80 years, Smith said.

The population looks set to fall again as melting pack ice forces polar bears back to the land - based habitats of brown bears, where interbreeding has recently been observed.

If the volcano erupts, the molten rock will melt the base of the ice, hastening the ice sheet's break - up (Nature Geoscience, doi.org/p45).

Miller and colleagues came to these conclusions by looking at radiocarbon dates — based on how much of the radioactive form of carbon they contain — from dead plants revealed by melting ice on Baffin Island, in the Canadian Arctic.

Co-author Dr Ivan Haigh, lecturer in coastal oceanography at the University of Southampton and also based at NOCS, adds: «Historical observations show a rising sea level from about 1800 as sea water warmed up and melt water from glaciers and ice fields flowed into the oceans.

Based on these figures, I suppose that the West Greenland ice melting was larger in the 1930 - 1950 period than in the 1985 - 2005 period... Alternative explanations may be that the Greenland ice melting has nothing to do with temperature, but with more insolation (less clouds), less precipitation, more soot deposit,...

«The reason for the layering is that global warming in parts of Antarctica is causing land - based ice to melt, adding massive amounts of freshwater to the ocean surface,» said ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science researcher Prof Matthew England an author of the paper.

That's why scientists at Texas» Rice University have developed a new graphene - based coating that continuously melts ice by conducting an electrical current.

He added that studies showed that melt water had been penetrating the glaciers and was acting as a lubricant between the ice and the base rock.

After obtaining precise ice shelf height data, the researchers used a regional climate model to work out how much of the variability on a year - to - year basis was due to snowfall (which causes ice shelves to grow taller) versus ocean - driven melting (which causes ice shelves to thin from below).

Typically, the snout, margins, sides, and surface ice are below the pressure - melting point, while thicker ice higher up in the accumulation area is warm - based [3].

This is because it is grounded below sea level, and marine ice sheets such as these are susceptible to rapid melting at their base.

Scientific knowledge input into process based models has much improved, reducing uncertainty of known science for some components of sea - level rise (e.g. steric changes), but when considering other components (e.g. ice melt from ice sheets, terrestrial water contribution) science is still emerging, and uncertainties remain high.

The ice sheet in this area is grounded up to 2000 m below sea level, making it intrinsically unstable6 and susceptible to rapid melting at its base, and to rapid migration of the grounding line up the ice stream7 (see Marine Ice Sheet Instabilitice sheet in this area is grounded up to 2000 m below sea level, making it intrinsically unstable6 and susceptible to rapid melting at its base, and to rapid migration of the grounding line up the ice stream7 (see Marine Ice Sheet Instabilitice stream7 (see Marine Ice Sheet InstabilitIce Sheet Instability).

In this case, incursions of circumpolar deep water onto the continental shelf are melting the ice stream at its base and encouraging grounding line recession, which results in a positive feedback loop and further grounding line recession.