Sentences with phrase «for ice models»

«But to accurately model how quickly the ice is going to flow or the rock to rebound, we need to understand the «boundary conditions» for ice models, such as heat flow from the mantle,» he said.

Not exact matches

We got this model for our wedding in 2008, and it probably made a few hundred batches of ice cream before it finally gave out in 2016.
Frozen yogurt is one of the easiest frozen treats to make, especially if you have an ice cream maker (I've had an older model of this ice cream maker for years and it's one of my favorite kitchen appliances).
Learn the proper care and use for your CC model Frozen Custard and Italian Ice machine by watching our operational videos.
I've had an older model of this ice cream maker for years, but Masha just got this updated model and it's noticeably quieter.
Featuring a 2 - quart container, this model allows you to make plenty of ice cream, or other frozen desserts for all your guests or your entire family.
Bola was initially attracted to Cauldron Ice Cream for its minimal food waste, simple operational model, and low costs, but also firmly believes in the longevity of the brand.
Look for a model that crushes ice easily, I use my BlendTec and love it.
We have lots of brilliant science activity ideas for autumn / fall in this post, such as autumn ice, modelling the seasons with LEGO and making jumping leaves.
They also analyzed data from a climate model developed by the Max - Planck Institute for Meteorology in Germany to predict what the correlation between the current and rainfall would be expected to be during the Little Ice Age.
This versatile model is a great option when you're hunting for the best blender for ice drinks.
According to ICES Director J. Tinsley Oden, mathematical models of the invasion and growth of tumors in living tissue have been «smoldering in the literature for a decade,» and in the last few years, significant advances have been made.
«The widespread loss of Antarctic ice shelves, driven by a warming ocean or warming atmosphere, could spell disaster for our coastlines — and there is sound geological evidence that supports what the models are telling us,» said Robert M. DeConto of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a co-author of the study and one of the developers of the ice - sheet model used.
Another promising approach involves combining physics, statistical modeling and computing to derive sound projections for the future of ice sheets.
What we find with Webb will help inform our models and allow us to understand the mechanisms for ice formation at very low temperatures,» explained Karin Öberg of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, an investigator on the project.
Heavier models tend to have larger screens and more features but are better for installing on a motorboat than toting with you across the ice or out to a hidden lake.
Noise and biases are accounted for in the model that ultimately produces ice sheet data.
The sulfate traces it left behind in the Greenland and Antarctic ice, served as a comparison for the current model study.
«The fact that now a large, ice - free area can be observed in the Weddell Sea confirms our theory and gives us another data point for further model studies,» says Dr. Martin.
Or perhaps, he says, formation models need to be adjusted to make it easier for larger building blocks to grow in the outer solar system where comets form and where ice and organic molecules could assist in the sticking.
Michiel van den Broeke of Utrecht University in the Netherlands and colleagues began by modelling the difference in annual snowfall and snowmelt in Greenland between 2003 and 2008 to reveal the net ice loss for each year.
The military uses the microwave information to detect ocean wind speeds to feed into weather models, among other uses, but the data happen to be nearly perfect for sensing sea ice, says Walt Meier, a sea - ice specialist with the NSIDC.
«It seems that it's not primarily the sea ice models that are responsible for the mismatch.
Physical and mathematical model of ice behavior under dynamic loads as well as a numerical method for calculating its impact and explosive loading, capable of reproducing the main features and mechanisms of deformation and fracture has been developing are currently under development.
Recent modelling by researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, as well as studies of past climate, suggest that the planet will soon have warmed enough to melt Greenland's ice sheet entirely — if it hasn't already become warm enough.
Dr Hogg, an ESA Research Fellow in the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) at Leeds said: «The satellite images reveal a lot of continuing action on Larsen - C Ice Shelf.
Over the current century, the model projects that the average albedo for the entire ice sheet will fall by as much as 8 percent, and by as much 10 percent on the western edge, where the ice is darkest today.
Unlike previous Pliocene models, this «no ice» version returned temperatures 18 to 27 F warmer than today's average annual temperatures for the Canadian Arctic and Greenland, coming closer to what the historical data pulled from the ground said.
The researchers built their computer models using common molecular models for ice / water and methane, arranged as either monocrystalline or polycrystalline grains, and simulated the effect of applying forces to the collection of grains.
Untersee is a good model for Mars, he says, because it is supplied by subglacial melt — water that accumulates at the bottom of an ice pile — rather than from surface melting, which does not occur on Mars.
Research by the UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) at the University of Leeds has produced the first complete map of how the ice sheet's submarine edge, or «grounding line,» is shifting.
The international team of co-authors, led by Peter Clark of Oregon State University, generated new scenarios for temperature rise, glacial melting, sea - level rise and coastal flooding based on state - of - the - art climate and ice sheet models.
Data collected by ship and model simulations suggest that increased Pacific Winter Water (PWW), driven by circulation patterns and retreating sea ice in the summer season, is primarily responsible for this OA expansion, according to Di Qi, the paper's lead author and a doctoral student of Liqi Chen, the lead PI in China.
«When we included projected Antarctic wind shifts in a detailed global ocean model, we found water up to 4 °C warmer than current temperatures rose up to meet the base of the Antarctic ice shelves,» said lead author Dr Paul Spence from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS).
The computer models show that ice need only be a few miles deep for this process to occur, and that the convection cells are very broad.
So it would be nice for the climate models to have sufficient resolution to be able to predict the impact of changes in coastal sea ice
The revised estimate for sea - level rise comes from including new processes in the 3 - dimensional ice sheet model, and testing them against past episodes of high sea - levels and ice retreat.
«In our study we used satellite data for sea ice and sea surface temperatures to run some coordinated hindcast experiments with five different atmospheric models,» Ogawa says.
Even models that correctly capture cloud behavior may fail to fully account for other climate feedbacks from factors like changing snow and sea ice cover, atmospheric water vapor content, and temperature.
The model showed that if there were varying amounts of salt in the surface ice shell, it could provide the necessary density differences for a slab to subduct.
The international research initiative IceGeoHeat led by the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences establishes in the current online issue of Nature Geoscience that this effect can not be neglected when modeling the ice sheet as part of a climate study.
The new model is the first to document and quantify this new feedback — one that is not accounted for in climate models, says Jason Box, an ice scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland in Copenhagen, who has documented rising impurities at a local scale during field campaigns.
Researchers have announced a new model, accounting for a combination of these forms, that they hope will melt our misunderstanding of ice accretion.
Modeler Bette Otto - Bliesner of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder and paleoclimatologist Jonathan Overpeck of the University of Arizona matched results from the Community Climate System Model and climate records preserved in ice cores, exposed coral reefs, fossilized pollen and the chemical makeup of shells to determine the accuracy of the computer simulation.
But the models also suggest that the scheme could go too far: Adding excess sulfur could increase ice in Antarctica, «overcompensating» for warming, says Rasch, which could affect ecosystems and the global ocean - atmosphere system in a myriad of ways that scientists haven't studied.
«We can use the models of expanding ice - free areas to help identify sites for protected areas, or pinpoint where we need to increase biosecurity,» Dr Fuller said.
Their paper, published in Physics of Fluids, from AIP Publishing, provides a model for four stages of ice formation on aircraft wings.
This model reconstruction has already proven a vital constraint for understanding complex systems beyond the ice sheet realm.
«The new work improves our understanding of history, allowing better model tests and allowing better assessment of how the ice responded to climate changes in the past,» Alley said, «and this will help in making better and more - reliable projections for the future.»
Bed topography data are vital for computer models used to project future changes to ice sheets and their contribution to sea level rise.
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