Sentences with phrase «heat warms the ice»

Ice gives comets their characteristic tails: As a comet passes near the sun, the heat warms the ice, causing it to sublimate, releasing gas and dust.

Not exact matches

Increased atmospheric heat obviously makes temperatures warmer, which leaves less time for ice to form and solidify and create new layers on glaciers and ice sheets.

Just as the water can be found in degrees of heat and cold as [again simplified] hot stream, scalding hot liquid, warm liquid and temperate, cold, freezing cold and solid ice, things, people, events and actions are likely to be found in a variety of states and valence.

I'm one that will totally heat up dessert to go with my coffee after the kids are in bed, but this one is SO GOOD ice cold - it makes a perfect dessert for the warmer months coming up - I can't wait!

Directions: Beat yolks by hand or with an electric beater / Gradually pour in the sugar and beat until thick and pale yellow / Stir in the liqueur and set the bowl in a pan of almost - simmering water / Beat by hand or with an electric whisk or beater for several minutes until foamy and mixture is warm to the touch / Remove from heat and beat again until cool (place in a large bowl of ice water to speed the process) / It should have the consistency of a thick, creamy mayonnaise / When cooled, thoroughly mix egg yolks & sugar with chocolate & butter mixture.

Grilled Stone Fruit Gazpacho Grill sliced peaches, nectarines or plums over high heat until just barely warmed through, then puree in a blender with some cucumber, red bell pepper, onion, a dash of sherry vinegar, salt, pepper and ice.

To make the ice cream, perfect for topping holiday pies, the key is mastering brown butter — butter heated until its milk solids caramelize and turn a warm amber color.

Instead, he is an old man on the tour, shaving his expenses down to about $ 30,000 a year, playing in all the exhibitions and pro-ams he can, suffering because he is naturally warm - blooded and has to wear ice - filled hats and gulp salt tablets to endure the summer heat.

Maps of Europa's heat and ionosphere made by the Galileo spacecraft in the 1990s show the plumes» location was warmer than the surrounding ice.

As the infiltrating water froze, the latent heat it released warmed the surrounding ice.

Warming temperatures in the Great White North are melting important ice roads and heating waterways beyond optimal temperatures for some fish

As temperatures warm, the Arctic permafrost thaws and pools into lakes, where bacteria feast on its carbon - rich material — much of it animal remains, food, and feces from before the Ice Age — and churn out methane, a heat trapper 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

If Ceres is acting like a comet, it must have ice patches that can survive for a long time before being heated by the sun as it moves into a warmer part of its orbit.

Some glaciers on the perimeter of West Antarctica are receiving increased heat from deep, warm ocean currents, which melt ice from the grounding line, releasing the brake and causing the glaciers to flow and shed icebergs into the ocean more quickly.

Cuffey developed a technique to combine these temperature measurements, which are smoothed as a result of heat diffusion in the ice, with isotopic measurements of old ice to come up with an estimated temperature of 11.3 degrees, plus or minus 1.8 degrees Celsius, warming since the depths of the ice age.

Denser materials, such as liquids or solids, carry energy better, so heat is transferred to the ice more quickly through liquid than it is through air, which warms up the ice and allows it to melt faster.

Unlike what happened on Pluto, any ice that filled up the basin on Ceres» warmer surface would have quickly turned to gas from the sun's heat.

Its two faces differ strikingly in color, likely the result of thermal segregation: Over time, darker materials (like carbon) have absorbed more heat from the sun, warming up and sending lighter, more volatile materials (like ice) to the colder hemisphere.

Frigid Europa may be warmed by a layer under its crust that moves heat and ice to and from its poles — and alien microbes could be hitching a ride

Conversely, when there is less Arctic sea ice, the ocean absorbs more heat from the sun, adding to global warming.

The equatorial heat warmed the precincts of Antarctica in the Southern Hemisphere instead, shrinking the fringing sea ice and changing the circumpolar winds.

The two main forces that conspire to destroy Earth's massive polar ice sheets are heat, which melts their surfaces via sunlight and warm air, and gravity, which drives glaciers to slide to the sea.

That's because the dwindling ice reflects less heat into space, causing it to warm up faster and melt away.

Another positive feedback of global warming is the albedo effect: less white summer ice means more dark open water, which absorbs more heat from the sun.

The warm Atlantic water was saltier, and therefore heavier and subducted at depth and reached to the bottom, actually heating up beneath a lid of ice and melt water, that prevented the release of heat to the atmosphere.

Global warming as hot topic, water worlds under Antarctic ice, King Tut's alien heat source, and more.

He proposed that the bottom layers of Europa's ice shell would be slightly warmer than the ice on top, due to heating from both the ocean below and the crushing pressure of the miles - thick ice above.

If the heat is weaker (right), Europa might have a thick layer of warm ice atop its ocean.

As Hartmut Hellmer explains, «When it comes to the Amundsen Sea, where warm water has already reached the continental shelf and even the grounding line of some ice shelves, we can safely say that this inflow of heat can not be stopped; the climate regime change has already taken place.

Black carbon warms the atmosphere because of its ability to absorb radiation from the sun, but its effect can be especially pernicious in polar regions, where, falling on bright ice, the soot diminishes the regions» ability to reflect away heat.

As a result of atmospheric patterns that both warmed the air and reduced cloud cover as well as increased residual heat in newly exposed ocean waters, such melting helped open the fabled Northwest Passage for the first time [see photo] this summer and presaged tough times for polar bears and other Arctic animals that rely on sea ice to survive, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

«If the ice thickness is too high the old ice at the bottom is getting so warm by geothermal heating that it is melted away,» Fischer explains.

Working with Cambridge colleagues Raymond Goldstein and Grae Worster, he left a cylindrical block of ice in a warm room and watched how its shape changed over time, exploring how things such as the rate of heat transfer to and from the block and its own material consistency changed matters (Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol 647, p 287).

Since the Artics» sea - ice cover is shrinking due to global warming, the polar region takes up more heat.

This warm air layer gets its heat reflected downwards during cloudy periods, especially during long night extensive cloudy periods, as a result, Arctic ocean ice doesn't thicken so much during darkness and leaves it up to summer sunlight (if there is some) to finish off what is left of it.

With Arctic ice retreating more and more as local summers heat up, exposing ever more cold northern waters to warming sunshine — along with a host of other regional changes — it remains to be seen exactly how sensitive global climate really is.

With the sun continuing to heat the ocean water at the tropical latitudes regardless of ice cap conditions up north, it would seem that the presence of an ice cap would result in a warmer ocean over the long term, with the converse also being true.

On the other hand, if the ice shell is sufficiently thick, the less intense interior heat can be transferred to warmer ice at the bottom of the shell, with additional heat generated by tidal flexing of the warmer ice which can slowly rise and flow as do glaciers do on Earth; this slow but steady motion may also disrupt the extremely cold, brittle ice at the surface to produce the chaos regions.

It is also not influencing increased ocean heat content, melting ice caps and glaciers, satellites showing tropospheric warming or strato cooling, etc

When all the heat accumulating in the oceans, warming the land and atmosphere and melting ice is tallied up, we see that global warming is still happening.

Puncak Jaya is the only place to get ice core data from the western side of what's known as the Pacific Warm Pool the single largest heat source to the global atmosphere.

By combining the ocean heating rates, TOA observations (figure 4) and other energy storage terms (land, atmosphere warming and ice melt), the authors calculated Earth's energy imbalance from January 2001 - December 2010 to be 0.5 (± 0.43) W / m2.

These oceans were formed by tidal heating, that is, warming of the ice caused by friction between the surface ice and the core as a result of the gravitational interaction between the planet and the moon.

Through a process known as convection, cooler nitrogen ice located in the middle of the cells falls away, and is replaced by a rising globule of (relatively) warm material, which has been heated by Pluto's feeble interior heat source.

As nitrogen ice on the surface of the plain cools, it recedes, only to be replaced by a rising blob of nitrogen that has been warmed by Pluto's meagre internal heat source.

The fact that heat is able to escape Pluto's interior to warm the ice suggests that the impactor strike may have thinned the crust below Sputnik Planitia, creating a weak spot through which the heat could rise.

From 1992 to 2003, the decadal ocean heat content changes (blue), along with the contributions from melting glaciers, ice sheets, and sea ice and small contributions from land and atmosphere warming, suggest a total warming (red) for the planet of 0.6 ± 0.2 W / m2 (95 % error bars).

Although the surface is cold, the base of an ice sheet is generally warmer due to geothermal heat.

At the same time, increasing depth and duration of drought, along with warmer temperatures enabling the spread of pine beetles has increased the flammability of this forest region — http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v1/n9/full/nclimate1293.html http://www.vancouversun.com/fires+through+tinder+pine+beetle+killed+forests/10047293/story.html Can climate models give different TCR and ECS with different timing / extent of when or how much boreal forest burns, and how the soot generated alters the date of an ice free Arctic Ocean or the rate of Greenland ice melt and its influence on long term dynamics of the AMOC transport of heat?

Heat trapping greenhouse - gas emissions are the obvious culprit, since they've increased dramatically over that same 50 years, but scientists prefer hard evidence to presumption, so a team from the British Antarctic Survey has been drilling into ancient ice to see how the current warming stacks up against what happened in the ancient past.