Sentences with phrase «dominated by ice»

The long term trend (for the short term of millions of years) is dominated by ice ages.

And reducing black carbon emitted in or near the Arctic (or other areas dominated by ice) is a clear gain, whether from oil flaring in Siberia or marine shipping.

While the Greenland Sea is dominated by ice export from the Arctic Ocean, the Barents Sea is mostly seasonal ice formed in situ.

Earth's climate and the biosphere have been in constant flux, dominated by ice ages and glaciers for the past several million years.

The PIG is not dominated by its ice shelf, hence the potential for rapid ice stream response.

There are products from around the world this month, dominated by ice cream.

Not exact matches

«We are excited to partner with DSR driver, Leah Pritchett, who recently closed out her impressive 2017 season with four NHRA event titles,» stated Chris Hall, Chief Operating Officer of Talking Rain Beverage Co. «At Sparkling Ice, we were immediately inspired by Leah's career, especially as a woman making waves in such a male dominated field.

I got to watch him for a few games last year when he came to Toronto (both regular season and playoffs) and you knew by the way he was dominating when on the ice, he was gearing himself up to play in the show.

Five gaping holes, created by giant impacts, dominate one side of Mathilde, and the asteroid is so lightweight, says Bell, that it must be either full of ice (but there's no sign of water) or a loosely packed pile of rocks held together by their own weak gravity.

Titan has diverse, carbon - rich chemistry on a surface dominated by water ice, as well as an interior ocean.

By 2100, the choice of driving climate model conditions dominates the uncertainty, but by 2200, the uncertainty in the ice sheet model and the elevation scheme are largeBy 2100, the choice of driving climate model conditions dominates the uncertainty, but by 2200, the uncertainty in the ice sheet model and the elevation scheme are largeby 2200, the uncertainty in the ice sheet model and the elevation scheme are larger.

It has also decreased the amount of the oldest, thickest Arctic sea ice, leaving polar waters dominated by thinner ice that forms in the fall and melts in the summer.

Pluto and Charon have surfaces dominated by volatile ices, with large variations in color and albedo.

Chinstrap and Gentoo penguins, for example, are less dependent on sea ice for their survival and have immigrated into some of the strongholds once dominated by Adélie penguins.

Discovered in 1978 by the United States Naval Observatory, Charon is the largest of Pluto's five moons and is only half the size of Pluto and one - eighth of its mass, with a surface dominated by a mixture of water ice and frozen ammonia.

Based on the analysis, the first ice formation phase is driven by hydrogenation of atoms, which results in a H2O - dominated ice.

Ice movement is dominated by the motion of glaciers, whose activity is determined by a number of processes.

grains are dominated by water ice, about 6 % of them are quite salty, containing roughly 1.5 % of a mixture of sodium chloride, sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate.»

It doesn't so much re-litigate her case — tried in real court and the one of public opinion — as jazz up the juiciest details: the «motivational» maternal shit - talk that Janney performs like a profane comedy routine; the on - the - ice outbursts, sometimes punctuating Gillespie's robustly staged skating sequences; and every twist and turn of Gillooly's hapless criminal conspiracy, which turns the backstretch of the movie into a dimwit caper, dominated by Paul Walter Hauser's broadly farcical take on Eckhardt and his mouth - breathing delusions of grandeur.

Further down the festival grounds was the Head bang for the Highway / Sumerian Records stage which played host to impressive sets by Upon a Burning Body and Veil of Maya before being dominated by the one and only Body Count featuring Ice - T.

The tablet market right now is almost entirely dominated by the iOS and Android operating system and the entire segment is set to be buoyed further with the coming of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and Windows 8.

In the southern reaches of Patagonia is the breathtakingly beautiful Parque Nacional Torres del Paine, which is dominated by rugged mountain peaks, deep fjords and channels teeming with penguins, and enormous ice fields flanked by brilliant blue glaciers.

On the planet, a lone soldier discovers himself through an interesting conspiracy on an ice ball dominated by massive, orange glowing aliens known as the Akrid.

These ads are dominated by either noxious selfie - bait like the Museum of Ice Cream or the blue chippery of the mega-galleries like Hauser & Wirth, Zwirner, and Gagosian (and their intercontinental mega-mergers) that market art like it's just more branded luxury — oh, and also the prevalence of ads for actual high - end consumer goods.

These changes are dominated by the amount of ice volume change.

I do not see that the state of the Arctic sea ice has been shown to be dominated by the thermal processes typically associated with increases in the temperature of either the air or water at the North Pole.

Under BAU forcing in the 21st century, the sea level rise surely will be dominated by a third term: (3) ice sheet disintegration.

I find that artic ice exent is dominated by northern hemisphere land temperatures 3 to 12 months previously, with the greatest impact for temperatures 5 - 10 months earlier.

It is likely that the primary reason for the large loss of ice this summer is that the ice cover has continued to thin and become more dominated by seasonal ice.

The conditions also bolster the views of ice and climate specialists who have stressed that the many factors shaping Arctic conditions year by year, from winds and atmospheric pressure to highly variable ocean currents and soot, still dominate the influence of heat trapped by building greenhouse gases.

Sea ice in the Arctic is now dominated by younger, thinner ice, which is vulnerable to melting, said NSIDC.

Of course our progress will be dominated by weather considerations, but ideally we would moor the vessel against the fast ice edge so that ice and ocean studies can begin and we can send our airborne drone out to view the route towards Cape Dennison and Mawsons Huts.

«Our analyses indicate that the overall sea - ice trend is dominated by increased ice - shelf melt», the Dutch scientists report.

There is absolutely nothing to suggest that carbon dioxide is a climate driver beyond a spurious correlation with temperature in Antarctic ice cores where blinkered climate scientists talked up the supposed CO2 - amplified warming phase but then just ignored the cooling phase that told them CO2 was obviously dominated by natural forces.

The Arctic used to be dominated by multiyear ice, or ice that survived through several years.

In the Chukchi Sea ice variability is dominated by decadal fluctuations, and there is no evidence of the LFO.

The ice variability in these seas is dominated by a multidecadal, low - frequency oscillation (LFO) and (to a lesser degree) by higher - frequency decadal fluctuations.

This increase was dominated by higher than normal ice extent in the Bering Sea, while ice extent remained below normal elsewhere.

This may represent an interim (or potentially longer - term) state for an Arctic that is now dominated by first - year sea ice.

I can see why he expected a system dominated by + ve f / b and accelerated melting to ice free conditions in 2012.

Long - term climate change since the Little Ice Age has been dominated by a very slow warming, which the chart's «average» and «maximum» temperature trends reveal.

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.

Both Polyakov and Vinje help confirm findings about glaciers, which tell us that Earth's melting ice trend operates on a millennium scale, driven by millennium - scale forces other than carbon dioxide (CO2), and driven concurrently by natural climate cycles that dominate carbon - dioxide forcing of temperature.

With regard to summer meteorological forcing, 2007 was dominated by a strong dipole pattern in sea level pressure (SLP), with high pressure over the Beaufort Sea and winds blowing from the Bering Strait across the North Pole, promoting both advection of warm air and compaction of the ice pack.

A large sector of what was remotely sensed to be multi-year sea ice at 7 to 9 + tenths ice cover, consisting primarily of multy - year ice floes, was in fact a surface of heavily decayed ice composed of some small multi-year floes (1 tenth) interspersed in a cover dominated by heavily decayed first - year floes (1 tenths) and overlain by new sea ice in areas of negative freeboard and in open water between floes.

In contrast to the lack of observed acceleration in the ocean thermal expansion, there has been a significant acceleration in the mass contributions, dominated by the increased GIS [Greenland ice sheet] mass loss.»

This low frequency signal is strongest in the Kara Sea (where very strong ice minima occurred in 1940 and at 2000 the end of the data series studied) and decays eastward so that in the Chukchi Sea ice cover is dominated by decadal fluctuations.

That a simple warming trend throughout the 20th century does not characterise arctic conditions is also confirmed by records of ice cover in the four seas that lie north of Siberia (Kara, Laptev, East Siberian and Chukchi); these show clearly that ice variability in these seas is dominated by a low frequency oscillation of frequency 60 ‐ 80 years that «places a strong limitation on our ability to resolve long term trends».

Only in the Kara Sea is ice cover dominated by thermodynamic factors, while ice cover in the other basins is dominated by the effects of wind and currents.

Arctic and N. Atlantic are dominated by natural «oscillations», however the Arctic ice data is far too short to make any meaningful conclusion.