Sentences with phrase «frozen ocean»

As a result, at least a thin layer of ice will form, establishing a large extent of frozen ocean.

The salt content distinguishes the two types of ice: Younger ice, formed from recently frozen ocean water, is saltier than the multi-year type, which loses its salts over time.

And on 13 February the total area of frozen ocean in the two hemispheres was at its lowest: 16.21 million square kilometres, which is about 2m sq km less than the average global minimum for 1981 to 2010.

Arctic sea ice in March reached a new record low: the area of frozen ocean at the height of winter on 7 March reached a new maximum low for the third year running, according to NASA scientists.

Human activities account for 60 percent of methane emissions, but other contributors include plumes from frozen ocean floors, microbes, abandoned wells and even beavers of all things.

Usually, the panic about the «methane bomb» from frozen ocean floor methane hydrates or methane from melting Arctic tundra.

The Southern Hemisphere's unrelenting winds and frigid air froze ocean water into 7.6 million square miles (19.7 million square kilometers) of Antarctic sea ice this winter, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).

A Window Opens Into Antarctica's Frozen Ocean News / Tuesday April 17, 2018 The McMurdo Oceanographic Observatory (MOO) consists of a live - streaming HD video camera that can point and zoom in all directions, a high - definition underwater microphone, and sensors that measure basic ocean conditions such...

Two University of Chicago scientists researched whether a planet dramatically ripped from its solar system and sent forth into the frigid atmosphere of open space could still harbor life under frozen oceans.

This time around you'll sail not only in open water but also in tight areas and freezing oceans where icebergs can be destroyed to create waves that can damage small ships.

The word «Arctic» brings to mind frozen ocean waters and barren tundra.

The third component of Antarctic ice is a thin layer of frozen ocean, or sea ice, that grows and shrinks with the seasons.

Much of the polar sea ice (frozen ocean water) that blankets the Arctic Ocean and surrounds the Antarctic continent in winter melts during the summer as temperatures do get above freezing.

Behind the wheel of a manual - drive Jeep, she ably sped through Reykjavik, past Bjőrk's house, and out along Iceland's Ring Road, with the country's windswept hillsides rolling off in every direction toward the freezing ocean.

Two crews of Italian videographers were aboard the ship and the one that was shooting a television nature documentary put on heavy - duty wetsuits to brave the freezing ocean, while getting up - close and personal with the aquatic birds.

And as icy as Pluto's surface is, researchers suspect the cause is a freezing ocean underneath.

You had lava, snow, freezing oceans, oh my!

However, the Titanic never returned from its maiden voyage; after striking an iceberg, the ship slowly sank to the bottom on the ocean, with most of its passengers meeting a watery grave in the freezing ocean.

With a 100 seamen he sailed away To that frozen ocean in the month of May.

of a light warmed rock, with some freezing ocean water, and turbulent, frigid gas, washing heat from it.

The maximum snow cover is in March or April — about 20 to 50 cm (7.9 to 19.7 in) over the frozen ocean.

In December, NOAA released its latest annual Arctic Report Card, which analyzes the state of the frozen ocean at the top of our world.

The frozen ocean around the Antarctic continent, too, has scientists worried.

When waves buffet the freezing ocean surface, characteristic «pancake» sea ice forms.

Sea ice is frozen ocean water.