Sentences with phrase «clear sheet of ice»

The result is a strong, but nearly clear sheet of ice.

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While the exact sources of black carbon are often difficult to pinpoint in remote areas, the researchers used molecular analysis of the black carbon along with analysis of wind patterns to show that Greenland's ice sheet had recently seen clear effects of wildfires burning thousands of miles away in the Canadian Arctic.

«The influence of distant forest fires on melt events on the Greenland ice sheet is inherently challenging to demonstrate and these clear chemical results provide another line of evidence for this connection,» said Diane McKnight, a CU Boulder professor and a co-author of the study.

But in the Totten and Moscow University ice shelves over on the eastern half of the ice sheet, the story was far less clear, Paolo says.

Antarctica's vulnerability to climate change has also become increasingly clear, said Robin Bell of Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, who studies how ice sheets change.

the south - bound expedition had cleared that vast plain of floating ice which flows down from the great mountains of the interior and covers the southern part of Ross Sea throughout an area above 20,000 square miles with an ice sheet approximately 800 feet in thickness, and had begun to climb the heights which form the mountainous embayment at the head of Ross Sea.

In addition, GOCE data could be used to help validate satellite altimetry measurements for an even clearer understanding of ice - sheet and sea - level change.

Asked how last week's election might change the likelihood of such action, Mann replied simply: «We have to make it clear that the ice sheets are not Republican or Democrat.

It is not clear yet how much of the phosphorus being released from the ice sheet is reaching the open ocean, but if a large amount of phosphorus coming off the glacier makes it to the sea, the nutrient could rev up biological activity of Arctic waters, according to the study's authors.

On a clear day, anyone flying over Greenland on the route between North America and Europe can look down and see the bright blue patches of melted water atop the flat, blindingly white expanse of the ice sheet that covers the island, the second largest chunk of ice on Earth.

While all discussion of marine ice - sheet instability is shrouded in tremendous uncertainty, one thing is clear: whatever happens in far - off West Antarctica will have more profound impacts in Scandinavia than in nearby Australia.

But on the scale of decades to a century, the dynamics of ice sheets whose disintegration would determine that outcome remain beyond clear human understanding.

Our experiments show a clear threshold in the relationship between the rate of sea - level rise, and the rate of (sea - level contributing) ice - sheet mass loss.

What's not clear from my admittedly inexpert reading of the paper is whether that transient sensitivity goes away (with the ice sheets) with that initial 3C.

I first dug in on behavioral and social science research related to global warming views and responses in 2006, and it quickly became clear that this was the scariest body of science of all — topping ice - sheet instability and even calling into question the utility of my profession.

There will be some clear failures where there are reasons to suspect that some of the (up to now) excluded physics is dominant (i.e. Heinrich events that rely on ice sheet dynamics), but pretty much everything else is fair game — as long of course there is a good hypothesis to test.

What is clear is that uncontrolled emissions will very soon put us in range of temperatures that have been unseen since the Eemian / Stage 5e period (about 120,000 years ago) when temperatures may have been a degree or so warmer than now but where sea level was 4 to 6m higher (see this recent discussion the possible sensitivities of the ice sheets to warming and the large uncertainties involved).

I do think it has been clear for a while that interactions with the ocean provide the greatest potential for surprises and rapid changes, and that Greenland's ice sheet would mostly pull out of the ocean before it lost most of its mass.

The people giving presentations, who know ice as well as anyone, made a clear case not only that we have little understanding of ice dynamics, but that (as one of them put it) the main sources of uncertainty in the models are all in the direction of underestimation of the sensitivity of ice sheets to a temperature rise.

It's clear there is a calibration issue between the long term proxy (based on ∂ 18O measurement) and recent direct measurement of temperatures on the Greenland ice sheet.

By now, it's pretty clear that we're starting to see visible manifestations of climate change beyond far - off melting ice sheets.

In the case of the East Antarctica Ice - Sheet (EAIS), the situation has been less clear: thinning of ice shelves and acceleration of glaciers have been described in some areas but it has to date given an impression of relative stabiliIce - Sheet (EAIS), the situation has been less clear: thinning of ice shelves and acceleration of glaciers have been described in some areas but it has to date given an impression of relative stabiliice shelves and acceleration of glaciers have been described in some areas but it has to date given an impression of relative stability.

Over the center of an ice sheet, the air is typically dry, and skies are clear.

The bleaching of coral reefs around the world, increasing extreme weather events, the melting of large ice sheets and recent venting of methane from thawing permafrost make it abundantly clear that the earth is already too hot.

The policy problem is a chain of numbers, each of which can be assigned a clear, unambiguous, unmetaphysical estimated probability distribution: the emissions trajectory, the carbon cycle feedbacks, the climate response, the ocean chemistry response, the ice sheet response, the impacts, these are all quantitative.

No tittering, it's so puerileâ $» every professor of climatology knows that the thickest ice ever is a clear sign of thin ice, because as the oceans warm, glaciers break off the Himalayas and are carried by the El Ninja down the Gore Stream past the Cape of Good Horn where they merge into the melting ice sheet, named after the awareness - raising rapper Ice Sheetice ever is a clear sign of thin ice, because as the oceans warm, glaciers break off the Himalayas and are carried by the El Ninja down the Gore Stream past the Cape of Good Horn where they merge into the melting ice sheet, named after the awareness - raising rapper Ice Sheetice, because as the oceans warm, glaciers break off the Himalayas and are carried by the El Ninja down the Gore Stream past the Cape of Good Horn where they merge into the melting ice sheet, named after the awareness - raising rapper Ice Sheetice sheet, named after the awareness - raising rapper Ice Shesheet, named after the awareness - raising rapper Ice SheetIce SheetSheet...

On the other hand, it is clear that Joughin et al. did not simulate the worst case, so care is required in more than one direction,» Richard Alley, one of the foremost experts on the fate of the world's ice sheets, said in an email conversation.

The findings of this research give a clearer picture of how glacier flow affects the Greenland Ice Sheet and shows that this dynamic process is dominated by a small number of glaciers.

From KU Leuven and the «department of annoying back - radiation» comes this claim that flies in the face of the «big melt» under «thin clouds» aka nearly clear skies back in July 2012 Clouds play a bigger role in the melting of the Greenland ice sheet than was previously assumed.

Tune in to gain a clearer understanding of the geological, climatological, and historical data, and get the facts straight about the Arctic, ice, ice sheets, and glaciers once and for all.

No tittering, it's so puerile — every professor of climatology knows that the thickest ice ever is a clear sign of thin ice, because as the oceans warm, glaciers break off the Himalayas and are carried by the El Ninja down the Gore Stream past the Cape of Good Horn where they merge into the melting ice sheet, named after the awareness - raising rapper Ice Sheetice ever is a clear sign of thin ice, because as the oceans warm, glaciers break off the Himalayas and are carried by the El Ninja down the Gore Stream past the Cape of Good Horn where they merge into the melting ice sheet, named after the awareness - raising rapper Ice Sheetice, because as the oceans warm, glaciers break off the Himalayas and are carried by the El Ninja down the Gore Stream past the Cape of Good Horn where they merge into the melting ice sheet, named after the awareness - raising rapper Ice Sheetice sheet, named after the awareness - raising rapper Ice Shesheet, named after the awareness - raising rapper Ice SheetIce SheetSheet...

The principal causes are clear: global decline of land ice (mountain glaciers & ice sheets) and thermal expansion of ocean water (water expands as it becomes warmer).

But it is becoming increasingly clear that future changes in the ocean currents will help determine the future survival of the ice sheets.

The study's lead author, Andrew Shepherd of Britain's University of Leeds, said the results are the clearest evidence that the ice sheets are losing ground and are intended to be the benchmark for climate scientists to use for future calculations.

Hallegatte [8] notes that these sources of uncertainty will not go away in the foreseeable future: social uncertainties will play out over decades, and recent experiences of improving scientific understanding have often led to more uncertainty about the future rather than less [10], as the implications of unappreciated processes such as ice - sheet dynamics become clearer.

Melting sea ice, ice sheets, and mountain glaciers are a clear sign of our changing climate.

On a long term scale we have clear evidence for Milankovitch cycles forcing CO2, by way of ice sheet extension, which clearly entails a rise in temperature.

Again, to be very clear about this, the «novelty» of Steig et al 2009 were their results for West Antarctica — the location of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

It is not clear to me that a comet impact directly into the Laurentide ice sheet would leave either an impact crater or evidence of soot and fires.

There are still competing theories, but the now clear evidence of ice - sheet change, has reinvigorated debate about whether we should expect a deglaciation of part of the West Antarctic ice sheet on century to millennial timescales (Vaughan, 2007).