Sentences with phrase «even ice volcanoes»

Gusty winds, clouds, haze, micro snowflakes and even ice volcanoes — cryovolcanism — could all be part of Pluto's dynamic weather system.

Pluto is more active than scientists dreamed, with mountain chains, roving glaciers and even ice volcanoes.

Not exact matches

Guiding their movement is an array of unseen forces, including mountains, valleys, and lakes — and maybe even smoldering volcanoes — hidden beneath the ice.

Because of the conditions that need to be met for this scenario to work it means that even if a few volcanoes were to be pushed towards eruption from ice melting, or landslides related to melting of ice, it would not be all ice clad volcanoes, nor even all volcanoes under thick ice.

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

I recall one post on how Earth came out of a snowball, which explanation may be a possibility but then again there may be other explanations (eg., oceanic volcanos splitting in the ice and thereby releasing some water vapour, soot deposits changing albedo, even meteor collision — who knows given the lack of evidence).