Sentences with phrase «frozen lakes and rivers»

Journey over frozen lakes and rivers and through the beautiful Saguenay forests and experience the Mahikan, a unique breed of dog which legend believes «fears nothing».

Nutti Sámi Siida is the only company offering reindeer sledding tours through woods, across frozen lakes and rivers, and even over the tundra.

Head to your local science center and check out NASA's new short film showcasing the frozen portions of the earth known as the cryosphere, which includes not only glaciers and permafrost but also frozen lakes and rivers and areas with seasonal snowfall.

From the time I was four years old, my father and my grandfather and my uncles would journey into the wilds of Maine, waking me well before sunrise, to climb on snowmobiles and travel through the woods out across the frozen lakes and rivers.

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I have just wondered what John and Jesus would have done if they had arrived in a climate like mine where lakes and rivers are frozen half the year... or a culture like we have where identifying with an ideology or movement typically means you buy a t - shirt with a catchy saying, or just dress a certain way.

It seems amazing now but for centuries the only way people living in hot climates could cool their drinks was to have first gathered ice and snow from mountain tops and frozen rivers and lakes.

Tucked beneath East Antarctica's vast ice sheet is a frozen world, complete with subglacial lakes, rivers, basins, volcanoes and mountains.

The properties of the climate system include not just familiar concepts of averages of temperature, precipitation, and so on but also the state of the ocean and the cryosphere (sea ice, the great ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, glaciers, snow, frozen ground, and ice on lakes and rivers).

Mote was one of 12 lead authors on a chapter of the fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report looking at the cryosphere, which is comprised of snow, river and lake ice, sea ice, glaciers, ice sheets and frozen ground.

Since IPCC (2001) the cryosphere has undergone significant changes, such as the substantial retreat of arctic sea ice, especially in summer; the continued shrinking of mountain glaciers; the decrease in the extent of snow cover and seasonally frozen ground, particularly in spring; the earlier breakup of river and lake ice; and widespread thinning of antarctic ice shelves along the Amundsen Sea coast, indicating increased basal melting due to increased ocean heat fluxes in the cavities below the ice shelves.

«Keep your pet dog away from frozen ponds, lakes or rivers which can pose a danger, and make sure their paws don't get impacted with snow.»

Leash your pets if you have frozen ponds, lakes or rivers nearby, as loose pets can break through ice and quickly succumb to hypothermia before trained ice - rescue personnel can arrive.

As Lake Brooks and Naknek Lake freeze over during the Alaska's long, cold winter the Brooks River continues to flow.

Lakes and rivers freeze over, allowing for some opportunities to flank, although the ice can be destroyed using explosives and mortars, meaning you need to be very careful when maneuvering valuable tanks across these features lest they sink before seeing any action.

5) The reduced seasonality means rivers and lakes freeze up later in autumn and melt out earlier in spring.

Lakes and rivers froze, and the soil froze to a depth of a metre or more.

Data on ice break - up, freezing date and ice duration in Finnish lakes and rivers can be found from this report.

«The Coast Guard said it was the earliest the ice had frozen here since the 1930s, and the river connecting Lakes Superior and Huron has been some of the toughest ice they have seen.

Satellite temperature measurements show similar warming; most glaciers are shrinking; lakes and rivers are freezing later and thawing sooner; oceans are expanding; plant and animal communities are mostly moving poleward.

c) Most glaciers are shrinking d) Lakes and rivers are freezing later and thawing sooner These data provide evidence that it is warming overall — see a) and b) However, they provide NO empirical evidence to support IPCC's CAGW premise.

Records of thaw and freeze dates for lake and river ice start with Lake Suwa in Japan in 1444, and extensive records of snowfall in China were made during the Qing Dynasty (1644 — 19lake and river ice start with Lake Suwa in Japan in 1444, and extensive records of snowfall in China were made during the Qing Dynasty (1644 — 19Lake Suwa in Japan in 1444, and extensive records of snowfall in China were made during the Qing Dynasty (1644 — 1912).

The cryosphere, which includes the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, continental (including tropical) glaciers, snow, sea ice, river and lake ice, permafrost and seasonally frozen ground, is an important component of the climate system.

Researchers at CIRES» National Snow and Ice Data Center [About NSIDC] investigate the dynamics of Antarctic ice shelves, new techniques for the remote sensing of snow and freeze / thaw cycle of soils, the role of snow in hydrologic modeling, linkages between changes in sea ice extent and weather patterns, large - scale shifts in polar climate, river and lake ice, and the distribution and characteristics of seasonally and permanently frozen ground.

The cryosphere — frozen precipitation, snow cover, sea ice, lake and river ice, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, permafrost and seasonally frozen ground — is a critically important component of the Arctic Climate System.

Cryosphere All regions on and beneath the surface of the Earth and ocean where water is in solid form, including sea ice, lake ice, river ice, snow cover, glaciers and ice sheets, and frozen ground (which includes permafrost).

The main components of the cryosphere are mountain glaciers and ice caps, floating ice shelves and continental ice sheets, seasonal snow cover on land, frozen ground, sea ice and lake and river ice.

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

The observed effects of cryosphere reduction include modification of river regimes due to enhanced glacial melt, snowmelt advance and enhanced winter base flow; formation of thermokarst terrain and disappearance of surface lakes in thawing permafrost; decrease in potential travel days of vehicles over frozen roads in the Arctic; enhanced potential for glacier hazards and slope instability due to mechanical weakening driven by ice and permafrost melting; regional ocean freshening; sea - level rise due to glacier and ice sheet shrinkage; biotic colonisation and faunal changes in deglaciated terrain; changes in freshwater and marine ecosystems affected by lake - ice and sea - ice reduction; changes in livelihoods; reduced tourism activities related to skiing, ice climbing and scenic activities in cryospheric areas affected by degradation; and increased ease of ship transportation in the Arctic.

These are professionally maintained, and while you may find a frozen lake, pond, or river in your local park, you should always check with officials and take proper safety precautions before setting out.

If it were not the case, ice would sink instead of float and ultimately lakes and rivers in cold climates would freeze solid from the bottom up.