Sentences with phrase «earlier ice break»

The freeze date for lakes and rivers in the Northern Hemisphere has moved later in the year, at an average rate of six days per 100 years, while the ice break - up date has moved up earlier in the year, at an average rate of a little more than six days over the last 100 years.6 Smaller lakes in North American show a uniform trend toward earlier ice break - up, up to 13 days early.7

On the Torne River, there was a corresponding trend for earlier ice break - up in the spring, as the rate with which the river moved toward earlier thaw dates doubled.

There, an uncommon balance between factors favoring early ice break - up and cool, cloudy weather have resulted in a lingering ice cover in advanced state of decay.

The mildness of the decade is confirmed by the early ice break - up dates for Lake Malaren and Tallinn Harbour.

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Getting the audience to laugh (or at least crack a smile) early on is a great way to break the ice.

Find Ways to Break the Ice - I discovered early on that the best parties involve a certain amount of serendipity.

The temperature records showed a warming spike after the 1970s, and the ice records documented that river ice is breaking up about nine days earlier now than last century.

When he and his colleague Florenza Micheli analyzed records from the Ice Classic, they found that the ice now breaks an average of 5.5 days earlier than it did in 19Ice Classic, they found that the ice now breaks an average of 5.5 days earlier than it did in 19ice now breaks an average of 5.5 days earlier than it did in 1917.

Over the years, the Yukon River ice has been breaking up earlier and freezing up later.

Many scientists concede that without drastic emissions reductions by 2020, we are on the path toward a 4C rise as early as mid-century, with catastrophic consequences, including the loss of the world's coral reefs; the disappearance of major mountain glaciers; the total loss of the Arctic summer sea - ice, most of the Greenland ice - sheet and the break - up of West Antarctica; acidification and overheating of the oceans; the collapse of the Amazon rainforest; and the loss of Arctic permafrost; to name just a few.

Emerging from a winter that has had staggeringly warm Arctic temperatures, scientists monitoring the vast Greenland ice sheet announced Tuesday that it is experiencing a record - breaking level of melt for so early in the season.

«As the ice was broken early on, the date just flowed after that.

He would interact enough over email to break the ice, but then he met up with dates as early as possible.

The film, about the titular champion ice skater who later embroiled herself in a plot to break the leg of her competitor, Nancy Kerrigan, world - premiered at TIFF earlier this month to enthusiastic reviews from movie critics, with particular praise — and Oscar buzz — brewing for Robbie and Allison Janney, who plays Harding's mother, LaVonda Golden.

In early 2007, a Bentley Continental GT Speed equipped with Nokian Hakkapeliitta Sport Utility 5 studded winter tyres and driven by four - time World Rally Champion Juha Kankkunen, broke the World Speed Record on Ice - on the frozen Baltic Sea near Oulu, Finland.

It was the dark of early morning; Lynne was in 55 - degree water as smooth as black ice, two hundred yards offshore, outside the wave break.

Just a foot since November, which had then melted away on three strangely warm days in early February, though the thick ice on the Hudson River had not yet broken.

And I guess we realised quite early on, that if we can make you laugh we've broken the ice.

In early March, shorefast ice broke out close to the beach along a > 100 km stretch of coast between Barrow and Wainwright.

With lack of multiyear ice, a normal or slightly below - normal thickness offshore ice cover (based on ice thickness flights earlier in the season) and coastal ice vulnerable to early break - up, ice conditions would favor a normal or somewhat early seasonal ice retreat.

Ainley confessed his claims were based on a sentence in Barbraud's paper that stated, «Complete or extensive breeding failures in some years resulted from early break - out of the sea - ice holding up the colony, or from prolonged blizzards during the early chick - rearing period.»

Not wanting to succumb to a similar mistake, I emailed Barbraud and asked for the dates during which he had observed an «early break - out of sea - ice holding up the colony».

Aqua measures the total area of sea covered by the ice, and by that measure the 2007 record low was broken for 10 days early last month.

An iceberg nearly the size of Delaware may break off from one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves, the Larsen C, early this year.

A few months earlier, parts of the Ross Ice Shelf broke off.

Petrich and others — too early in the season to use 16 - day weather forecasts to predict fast ice break - up around Barrow

Ice retreat depends strongly on the amount of solar heating of the surface ice and ocean; clear sky conditions early in the melt season can go a long ways towards helping ice retreat later in the season, so this is one of the variables that will be monitored closely (e.g., in the Barrow coastal sea ice break - up forecast, see beloIce retreat depends strongly on the amount of solar heating of the surface ice and ocean; clear sky conditions early in the melt season can go a long ways towards helping ice retreat later in the season, so this is one of the variables that will be monitored closely (e.g., in the Barrow coastal sea ice break - up forecast, see beloice and ocean; clear sky conditions early in the melt season can go a long ways towards helping ice retreat later in the season, so this is one of the variables that will be monitored closely (e.g., in the Barrow coastal sea ice break - up forecast, see beloice retreat later in the season, so this is one of the variables that will be monitored closely (e.g., in the Barrow coastal sea ice break - up forecast, see beloice break - up forecast, see below).

The break - up of landfast ice at Barrow occurred on June 4, 2010, which was earlier than the previous two years.

The thinner wintertime ice combined with strengthened southerlies in spring promotes an earlier break - up of the ice pack in the Eurasian coastal region, resulting in significant sea ice export.

You can't fake spring coming earlier, or trees growing higher up on mountains, or glaciers retreating for kilometres up valleys, or shrinking ice cover in the Arctic, or birds changing their migration times, or permafrost melting in Alaska, or the tropics expanding, or ice shelves on the Antarctic peninsula breaking up, or peak river flow occurring earlier in summer because of earlier snowmelt, or sea level rising faster and faster, or any of the thousands of similar examples.

Relatively large daily ice losses have continued into early August, though they are less than the extreme losses in early August 2012 that occurred in the wake of a strong cyclone that moved through the area and broke up the ice in the Chukchi Sea.

The break - up of the adjacent Larsen B ice shelf in early 2002 has been attributed to the effects of global warming.

Freeze dates in the region are now occurring on average six days later than in the past, and the ice is breaking up on average around 18 days earlier.

Like a cork removed from a champagne bottle, the early break up in these passages is allowing thick, old sea ice to flow south from the Arctic Ocean into the North Atlantic, choking areas used by fishing, shipping and ferry boats.

Warming temperatures are causing ice that normally blocks narrow ocean passages in winter and spring to break up earlier than in the past.

Bob, I disagree that the ice is breaking up early.

«Many scientists concede that without drastic emissions reductions by 2020, we are on the path toward a 4C rise as early as mid-century, with catastrophic consequences, including the loss of the world's coral reefs; the disappearance of major mountain glaciers; the total loss of the Arctic summer sea - ice, most of the Greenland ice - sheet and the break - up of West Antarctica; acidification and overheating of the oceans; the collapse of the Amazon rainforest; and the loss of Arctic permafrost; to name just a few.

The earlier onset of spring and therefore earlier break up of sea ice will have a huge impact on the Arctic ecosystems and the species that live in the Arctic region.

A question from «Hamilton» creator Lin - Manuel Miranda, about how students strike a work - balance with their activism, broke the ice early in the panel.

One method is to practise small talk with a friend before the interview so you can break the ice early when you meet your interviewer.