Sentences with phrase «calved when»

I could hear the thunderous sound of it calving when I went out for hikes or skiing and boating trips — it's a powerful roaring noise that really makes you think about what our human activities are costing us.

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«The calving occurred sometime between Monday 10th July 2017 and Wednesday 12th July 2017, when a 5,800 square km section of Larsen C finally broke away,» said Project MIDAS in a blog post.

Many Hammers fans were surprised when Alex Song was named as captain in place of the injured Mark Noble who has picked up a calve strain.

Our vet is always happy when assisting births at our farm because we have lots of overhead light in the calving pens.

When the shelf broke, she and colleagues predicted, it would be the largest calving event in decades.

When interviewed, the researchers repeatedly noted that ice shelves calve naturally, and that any link between the new rift and climate change is complicated at best.

One way to assess the health of ice sheets is to look at their balance: when an ice sheet is in balance, the ice gained through snowfall equals the ice lost through melting and iceberg calving.

The last time a large iceberg calved from Antarctica was in 2002, when a chunk about half the size of the Larsen C iceberg calved from a different ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula, Larsen B (SN: 3/30/02, p. 197).

Records at the center, located at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, date back to the 1970s, when seismologists first recognized that calving glaciers created unmistakable seismic signals hundreds of kilometers away, West said.

The calving occurred sometime between Monday 10th July and Wednesday 12th July, when a 5,800 square km section of Larsen C finally broke away.

«Coincidentally, when melting took off, the ice sheet began pulling back from the coast and the calving of icebergs diminished.

«There's an entrenched view in the public community that glaciers only lose ice when icebergs calve off,» says Eric Rignot at the University of California, Irvine.

That's because the IPCC models only take into account temperature changes at the surface of glaciers, but not the rapid melting that occurs when glaciers calve and break up into the ocean, Rignot said.

When that Antarctic iceberg calved, scientists mobilized quickly to learn as much as possible about the remaining ice.

It is virtually impossible to predict exactly when ice masses of this size will calve.

Isn't it he worst when you find some boots you are in love with, but the calve openings are too small?

Imrestor is a protein that helps support the natural function of a dairy cow's immune system during the critical time around calving, when she is most vulnerable to mastitis.

However, recent calving rates have been shown to be negatively correlated with ice cover extent, indicating population growth is faster when ice cover is reduced and feeding habitat is extended [20].

The gray whale calving lagoons gained acclaim in the early 1970s when a gray whale made contact with a local fisherman, allowing him to pat her head.

In addition, the marine life is beautiful, and mammoth Southern Right whales can be spotted breaching and lob - tailing from around July to November of every year when they pass our coastline to calve and mate.

Southern right whales are frequently seen when the gentle giants use the bay area as calving and nursery grounds.

Our Combo tours are offered late January through mid-March, when the gray whales are present in Magdalena Bay to calve.

Locally big waves when a calving event occurs!

I imagine calving as occurring when the loss (ie.

If there is one thing we have learned, if you are to keep the global warming hoax alive, you must personalize the Global Climate scare - stories — e.g., first you give an ice shelf a name; then, when you hear that if calved - off Antarctica to just float away and silently die alone and forgotten, it's like hearing that a member of the family has been run over by a drunk driver in a SUV.

As during the last ice age when sea levels were around 100 m lower icebergs were grounding at 44s, these would have calved from similar size as during the 2001 event (160kmx30km) hardly evidence of change.

«DMI reference has a significant net loss for Greenland when they consider calving.»

SoF, you can go to Tony Heller's site where he has a comment section and politely point out to him that his DMI reference has a significant net loss for Greenland when they consider calving.

While there have been numerous claims that warmer Polar temperatures (due to posited global warming effects) will cause more iceberg calving, I'm sure it will come as quite a shock to those same folks when they discover that there's...

I think Manhattan is only a reasonable unit when it comes to calving glaciers.

Here, ice is loss by melting rather than iceberg calving as when glaciers meet the sea.

The rapid melting of Kangerdlugssuaq glacier has produced a special category of earthquake known as a glacialquake.1, 3 Once thought to occur when glacial ice strikes solid earth beneath it, glacialquakes are now attributed to lurching that occurs when parts of the glacier break off (calve) into the ocean.4, 5

Calving glaciers are more challenging than ordinary ones when it comes to documenting change.

Icebergs form when chunks of ice calve, or break off, from glaciers, ice shelves, or a larger iceberg.

Or the news from Antarctica this past May, when a crack in an ice shelf grew 11 miles in six days, then kept going; the break now has just three miles to go — by the time you read this, it may already have met the open water, where it will drop into the sea one of the biggest icebergs ever, a process known poetically as «calving.»

For an ice sheet to have constant size, the mass of ice added from snowfall must equal the mass lost due to melting and calving (when icebergs break off).

In fact, up until 2005, around 52 % of this ice loss happened when glaciers calved to deliver icebergs.

At the top of the list is Proskauer Rose, whose 42 - person marketing staff is led by Chief Marketing Officer Joseph Calve, a former colleague of mine when we both worked at ALM.