Sentences with phrase «by snow and ice»

When put into the equation with significantly increased stopping distances created by snow and ice, lack of visibility can make winter driving much more dangerous for both motorists and pedestrians.

These effects are magnified by snow and ice: by reducing snow and ice cover, warming reduces the reflectivity of the ground and allows more solar energy to be absorbed, further increasing the warming; conversely for cooling.»

But cooling is unlikely in the polar regions because sunlight which gets past the clouds is probably reflected by snow and ice anyway.

The fact is that when it's cold and there is more surface covered by snow and ice, the sensitivity to changes in solar power are much higher, then for example, at the equator.

Certainly abrupt change in the MOC would probably mean cooler — and amplified by snow and ice feedbacks.

It may be a hard notion to accept after a week that has seen the nation paralysed by snow and ice.

Blocked by snow and ice, their direction seems impossible to navigate — an untenable situation that passes on the subject's state of anxiety to the viewer.

Then and on at least one later occasion, this particular enthusiast was driven back home by snow and ice.

We are finally getting back to normal after the craziness caused by the snow and ice this week in Atlanta.

Surface radiative energy budget plays an important role in the Arctic, which is covered by snow and ice: when the balance is positive, more solar radiation from the Sun and the Earth's atmosphere arrives on the Earth's surface than is emitted from it.

The debris had been quickly covered by snow and ice at the time and so had never been recovered.

Essex Roads Go - Ride Winter Series 2018 Race Report — Round 4 — 25.03.2018 Hampered by the snow and ice round four of our 2018 winter race series was delayed by a week, and boy what a difference a week makes!

Not exact matches

The first 110,000 annual layers of snow in that ice core (GISP2) have been visually counted and corroborated by two to three different and independent methods as well as by correlation with volcanic eruptions and other datable events.

This fall, a Ph.D. student at UC Irvine tweeted a graph of data collected by the National Snow and Ice Data Center that sparked a firestorm of debate.

One popular drink, cooled with the ice and snow and sold by street vendors during the summer months, was the Sherbet.

They would bring back huge blocks of ice and snow to their village on horseback or by boat and place it in large dug out pits where the ice would be packed and insulated with grasses, leaves and furs.

I traveled upstate to my childhood home on the St. Lawrence River and then by train to Montreal for snow + ice + drinks + dancing for my bachelorette party.

If you live somewhere that hasn't been pummeled by cold, ice, wind and snow... then I hope you're happy.

The initial launch events will include live demonstrations on how to activate the can, promotional giveaways, shave ice snow cones with West Coast Chill, and Savolt Motorsports cars sponsored by West Coast Chill.

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That picture of Tenzing Norgay — the second man atop Everest and Hillary's Nepali climbing partner — with one leg in a huge snow boot cocked up on the ice, being captured by someone behind the camera who somehow did not care about taking a selfie at the top.

They were descending the North West Ridge at night and had just begun descending The Ramp when a change from powder snow to blue ice caught Ari, who was in front, by surprise.

A West Brom die - hard fan, Jamie Bourn, is going even further by praying that the recent snow is a sign that the next Ice Age is upon us and then the Premier League season will be to be cancelled.

Inspired by the Icehotel in Sweden, Hotel de Glace (French for «Ice Hotel») is a 45 - room structure made entirely out of snow and ice that is designed to a different engaging theme each yeIce Hotel») is a 45 - room structure made entirely out of snow and ice that is designed to a different engaging theme each yeice that is designed to a different engaging theme each year.

Create your own version of snow cones by crunching the ice and then making your own snow cone syrup.

Although the boardwalk had undergone a major overhaul in 2010, years of gradual deterioration, compounded by long - term impacts from the aquatic environment and seasonal weather, such as snow and ice, forced its closure in March of 2016.

For 2017, Mudders will again be tested by ten miles of Mount Snow's varied and steep terrain, and will contend with obstacles that feature mud, ice - cold water, barbed wire, electric shocks and other challenges that the Tough Mudder design team has dreamt up over the years.

Many international observers in Ukraine were impressed by the way people made their way to polling stations through the ice and snow.

Sen. Tony Avella, an IDC member from Queens, is re-proposing legislation aimed at cutting down on hazards created by snow and projectile - missile - like ice that flies off vehicles driven by owners who couldn't bother to clear them off before hitting the streets.

It was early surmised that Martian caps must be composed of ice and snow, a theory which Prof. Lowell substantiates by pointing out that as the Martian cap melts it is surrounded by a deep blue band, which keeps pace with the shrinking cap and is clearly the product of its disintegration.

Because most of Antarctica is covered by ice and snow, scientists hunting for fossils are limited to rocky outcrops, generally in mountainous areas.

This was not a one - off event: bright snow is being replaced by dirty ice that absorbs more heat and melts faster (see Losing its sparkle).

The new Arctic Now product developed by the Finnish Meteorological Institute shows with one picture the extent of the area in the Northern Hemisphere currently covered by ice and snow.

Here and across Antarctica, eons of storms have piled snow, inch by inch, layer by layer, until the ice was miles high.

The research showed that, compared to pure snow and ice, the reflectivity of the glacier (known as the «albedo») can be reduced by up to 80 % in places where coloured microbial populations are extremely dense, leading to the darkening of the glacier surface.

«We still don't know exactly where the meltwater came from, but given that the average temperature at the nearest weather station has risen by about 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) over the last 50 years, it makes sense that snow and ice are melting and the resulting water is seeping down beneath the glacier,» Thompson said.

One thing is certain: global warming is reduced by snow and sea ice reflecting solar energy back into space.

Scientists can determine ancient atmospheric concentrations by measuring CO2 and methane levels in tiny air bubbles trapped in such ice, formed when the ice fell to the earth as snow.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center reports that Arctic ice shrank by 131,000 square miles between August 17 and 21, leaving ice coverage that is well below the 2005 record low of 2.05 million square milIce Data Center reports that Arctic ice shrank by 131,000 square miles between August 17 and 21, leaving ice coverage that is well below the 2005 record low of 2.05 million square milice shrank by 131,000 square miles between August 17 and 21, leaving ice coverage that is well below the 2005 record low of 2.05 million square milice coverage that is well below the 2005 record low of 2.05 million square miles.

Confirmation of this idea requires a direct record of the ancient atmosphere — and this can be recovered by analysing the air that became trapped in tiny bubbles within ice as the snow it formed from fell to Earth.

The researchers studied water samples taken during cruises by Chinese ice breaker XueLong, (meaning «snow dragon») in summer 2008 and 2010 from the upper ocean of the Arctic's marginal seas to the basins as far north as 88 degrees latitude, just below the North Pole, as well as data from three other cruises.

«Our analysis confirmed that the Planck Response plays a dominant role in restoring global temperature stability, but to our surprise we found that it tends to be overwhelmed locally by heat - trapping positive energy feedbacks related to changes in clouds, water vapor, and snow and ice,» Brown said.

Hundreds of ice cores taken from around the world will be stored for several centuries in a snow cave at -54 °C in Antarctica, at the Concordia station, which is run by the French Polar Institute (IPEV) and the Italian Antarctic Research program (PNRA).

An image of an area of the Arctic sea ice pack well north of Alaska, captured by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite on Sept. 13, 2013, the day before the National Snow and Ice Data Center estimated Arctic sea ice to have reached its minimum extent for the yeice pack well north of Alaska, captured by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite on Sept. 13, 2013, the day before the National Snow and Ice Data Center estimated Arctic sea ice to have reached its minimum extent for the yeIce Data Center estimated Arctic sea ice to have reached its minimum extent for the yeice to have reached its minimum extent for the year.

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.

Materials provided by National Snow and Ice Data Center.

Aquarius will be able to measure changes in salinity caused by evaporation, rain and snow, and melting sea ice.

Ginot and his team of researchers can also track aerosols — small particles in the atmosphere that fall with snow and get trapped and stored in the ice, layer by layer, as the years pass.

That base layer can warp and lift the ice above it, which is formed by snow deposited on the ice sheet's surface.

Left unchecked, the haze could absorb solar radiation, warming the Arctic and in turn aggravating global warming by melting the ice and snow that reflect some of the Sun's rays back into space.