Sentences with phrase «for land ice»

The black line shows a proxy for local temperature (deuterium), the green line is nitrous oxide, the red line is CO2, the blue line is methane, and the gray line is a proxy for land ice (low = more glaciers / larger ice caps).

So for land ice, more snow falls on Antarctica, but the land ice mass is dropping due to increased calving rates.

Correcting this situation requires a predictive understanding of the processes responsible for land ice loss.

The latter is especially true for land ice (Antarctica and Greenland) because you have to wait for snowfall accumulation and conversion to ice.

«For California, there is no worse place for land ice to be lost than from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet,» the study concluded.

Same for the land ice?

Not exact matches

Days are spent tending to the over 125 fruit trees in the orchard, milking the goats for homemade ice cream and cheeses, gathering eggs from the chickens, ducks, and geese, and like Jefferson, creating special nurseries for monitoring and recording the best vegetable and flower results and finding creative ways to use the river and land.

Waqfs were established to furnish trousseaux for orphan girls, for paying the debts of imprisoned or bankrupt businessmen, for clothing for the aged, to help pay village and neighborhood taxes, to help the army and the navy, to found trade guilds, to give land for public markets, to build lighthouses, to help orphans and widows and the destitute, to care for the needs of poor school children and to give them picnics, to pay for the funerals of the poor, to provide holiday gifts for poor families, to build seaside cottages for holidays for the people, to distribute ice - cold water during the summer, to create public playing fields, to distribute rice to birds, and to give food and water to animals.

We've been sleeping more than usual (I actually went to bed with Matthew at 7 pm earlier this week, waking only long enough to scarf down a tiny bowl of pasta for dinner before drifting off to la - la - land again), eating our collective weight in local ice cream, and touring small, nearby towns in the afternoons before heading back to the cottage for happy hour snack time.

I don't have a browned butter cookie in my collection (I do have an amazing browned butter icing recipe, but that'll have to wait for another post), so I turned to my favorite cookie recipe resource, Land O Lakes.

I'm making your beet - chocolate cake for the reception dessert, using eggs, honey, and beets from their land, and a friend is making goat cheese ice cream to go with it.

The sports facility, to be built on Park District - owned land at Plainfield and Clarendon Hills Roads, would include an ice rink, multipurpose room, indoor fieldhouse for soccer or in - line hockey, concession area, pro shop and locker rooms.

In December of 1972 the vote went against the Park District's referendum to issue $ 2,550,000 in general obligation bonds for park improvement and development including the construction of a fieldhouse at Dryden Park, land acquisition, the construction of a north side maintenance garage, and the construction of an indoor ice rink complex along with increasing the corporate tax rate by.025 %.

Researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Darrin Freshwater Institute in Bolton Landing have been studying the impact of water temperate and lake ice for several years, said Sandra Nierzicki - Bauer, executive director.

A recent surge prompted the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation to push back a deadline for bids on three land parcels that are located south of the Ice at Canalside.

False assumptions on starvation «Unless you've been living under a rock the last few decades, you're aware that Arctic Sea ice is melting, and that this is potentially bad news for polar bears,» she said, adding that until now, the prevailing belief has been that «energy from food on land is largely inconsequential.»

For bulk water samples, these conditions are described as «no man's land,» because ice nucleates before such temperatures can be reached.

And researchers are not yet certain polar bears — which on ice lie in wait for, rather than chase after, prey — can do so on land.

It has uniquely adapted for life on a combination of land, sea, and ice and is now dependent on this combination.

«They are capable of existing on land for part of the year, but the sea ice is where they obtain their main prey.»

Circling the poles, the LRO will profile mineral abundances, scout potential landing sites, and look for water - ice deposits, imaging the terrain to a resolution of three feet.

Yet when Scambos and his team had returned in November 2010 to repair the station, they found the Scar Inlet ice shelf too crisscrossed with exposed crevasses for their plane to land.

What matters for sea - level rise is the addition of ice from land into the ocean, however it's the ice shelves that hold off the flow of grounded ice toward the ocean.

For instance, when the Phoenix spacecraft landed on Mars in 2008, it kicked up enough dust to reveal water ice — a surprise to its builders, who hadn't thought that the lander's relatively weak rocket engines could have moved so much material.

It could scan Mars and map out subsurface pockets of water ice and even assist in X-marking a safe and sound landing zone for astronauts where they can draw on water for oxygen - sustaining needs as well as for concocting rocket fuel.

For decades beforehand, researchers had debated the extent to which ice shelves buttress glaciers on land — acting like corks that slow the land ice's inevitable march to the sea.

The material on Amazon forest dieback was in the IPCC assessment as were the numbers on recent sea level (thought the IPCC did not use the information on recent contributions from land ice in their estimate for 21st century warming.)

Already, more than 12 per cent of Earth's ice - free land is used continuously for crops and 16 per cent for livestock.

Steve: And another factor you mention in the article is 30 percent of the land on the Earth that isn't covered with ice is used for grazing livestock and growing animal feed.

If you hunt on the ice for seals, you look for what's called «land - fast ice.»

«Right now, pregnant females foraging offshore in summer must wait up to a month longer than they did just 10 years ago for new sea ice to form so they can travel to denning areas on land,» says Steve Amstrup of the USGS.

Lake Whillans had likely not seen the light of day for hundreds of thousands of years, but Tulacyzk and the others who landed that day intended to see what was under the ice.

«Based on the UN climate panel's report on sea level rise, supplemented with an expert elicitation about the melting of the ice sheets, for example, how fast the ice on Greenland and Antarctica will melt while considering the regional changes in the gravitational field and land uplift, we have calculated how much the sea will rise in Northern Europe,» explains Aslak Grinsted.

Those very steep spots would not be good landing sites for humans or rovers, but they suggest that nearby regions might have accessible ice within a meter or two of the surface.

During ice ages, glaciers scour and cover large swaths of land, wiping out plant communities for millennia.

With Arctic sea ice melting earlier and earlier, polar bears are being forced to change their diets, scouring dry land for seabird eggs rather than enjoying their typical staple: seals.

MPL, launched in 1998, was to have landed less than 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) from the planet's south pole to collect soil and ice samples for analysis and to gauge meteorological conditions.

Multiple observations indicate that the flowing water responsible for shaping and moving the rounded pebbles encountered in the vicinity of the rover landing area has long since been lost to space, though some of it may still exist deep below the surface of the planet at equatorial locations (water ice is known to exist near the surface at the poles).

As their hunting behavior shifts from ice to land, the polar bears «have progressively arrived earlier and earlier to have access to more eggs,» says biologist Børge Moe, another principal author of the study who works at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Kongsfjorden, where seabird egg predation is just beginning to increase.

As Arctic sea ice melts earlier each year, polar bears in some parts of Norway and Greenland are abandoning ice floes for dry land and their favorite meal — seals — for seabird eggs.

Other experts, though, say thinning ice sheets on land and calving ice shelves on the sea are reasons for alarm.

But the large volumes of data on Arctic sea and land ice that IceBridge has collected during its nine years of operations there have also enabled scientific discoveries ranging from the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed to improvements in snowfall accumulation models for all of Greenlaice that IceBridge has collected during its nine years of operations there have also enabled scientific discoveries ranging from the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed to improvements in snowfall accumulation models for all of GreenlaIce Sheet are thawed to improvements in snowfall accumulation models for all of Greenland.

Having precise measurements of snow on sea ice is essential for NASA's upcoming Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite - 2 (ICESat - ice is essential for NASA's upcoming Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite - 2 (ICESat - Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite - 2 (ICESat - 2).

For the new study, researchers collected two ice cores from Ellsworth Land, the strip of land that connects the Antarctic Peninsula to the rest of the continLand, the strip of land that connects the Antarctic Peninsula to the rest of the continland that connects the Antarctic Peninsula to the rest of the continent.

It's an «excellent preliminary study,» that could help mission controllers zero in on landing sites for future missions that feature, say, surface ice of sufficient depth, says astrobiologist Andrew Steele of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C..

Recent inspection of the sulfate records from the European project for ice coring in Antarctica's dronning maud land (EDML) ice core reveals sulfate peaks that have been correlated to presumed YTT sulfate peaks in the North Greenland ice core project (NGRIP) and GISP2 ice cores; however, once again no volcanic material has been identified (18).

«Based on the likely location of ice deposits during this period of Mars» history, and the amount of meltwater that could have been produced by Lyot ejecta landing on an ice sheet, we think this is the most plausible scenario for the formation of these valleys» said David Weiss, a recent Ph.D. graduate from Brown and the study's lead author.

Rapidly changing ecosystems are threatening wildlife and the indigenous populations that depend on it, while thawing land and melting ice are shortening shipping routes and opening up new areas for development of fossil fuels and minerals.

The reason for that, they suggest, is that instead of landing directly on the surface, ejecta from Lyot landed on a thick layer of ice, which prevented it from gouging the surface beneath the ice.

Current projections of global sea level rise do not account for the complicated behavior of these giant ice slabs as they interact with the atmosphere, the ocean and the land.