Sentences with phrase «highest ice years»

Capital Weather Gang examined summer temperatures examined summer temperatures following the five highest ice years on the Great Lakes and found that they were below normal for much of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic.

Not exact matches

In the past year, Breyers, the ice cream brand owned by Unilever, introduced a low - calorie, high - protein ice cream with the calorie count printed in big letters on the container, just like Halo Top.

The oceans have been pushing higher at a greater rate year after year due to melting ice.

Deeper into the core the layers thin out due to ice flow and high pressure and eventually individual years can not be distinguished.

And the faithful remnant scattered in the pews were too poor, too old, and too few to think of bringing back the statues and the high altar for which their parents had sacrificed countless ginger drops and ice cream sodas so many years ago.

It all started when High Brew founder David Smith and his business partner, sold the iced tea company they spent over 10 years building.

Its violence stilled by the grip of winter, Bridalveil loomed high above 28 - year - old Jeff Lowe, beckoning him upward in the first solo assault on this ice fall of terrifying grandeur

Skin diving under ice has been going on for several years among a few hardy folk of the northeastern U.S., but the high cost of protective suits has kept it from becoming a contagion.

Scenic Caves Nature Adventure — A a self - guided trail of caves, caverns and crevasses carved millions of years ago by glacial ice, and savour the breathtaking lookouts from the highest point of the Niagara Escarpment, set in one of Canada's sixteen UNESCO biosphere reserves.

That the study found concussion rates for ice hockey (10 per 100,000) and football (8 per 100,000) among younger athletes (7 - to 11 - year - olds) much higher than the overall concussion rate (1 per 100,000), were «not surprising» to lead author, Lisa L. Bakhos, M.D., a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Attending at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, New Jersey.

Ostensibly, it is the story of a team of nine - year old hockey players in a Boston suburb, their coach, a former high school baseball coach and local sports hero, the all - male board of directors of the town's hockey club, a hockey mom concerned about her kids emotional well - being, and, at center ice, a set of adorable, identical, competitive, but sensitive twin boys who became, as is all too often the case in the adult - centered world of youth sports, the unintended but innocent victims of a real life power play.

Restriction of body checking in boys» ice hockey games to the highest competition levels (eg, AAA, AA, Tier I, Tier II), starting no earlier than 15 years of age.

However, because of ongoing concerns that a high number and proportion of boys» ice hockey injuries are attributable to body checking, the AAP has elected to reassess its 2000 recommendation that «body checking should not be allowed in youth hockey for children age 15 years or younger.»

As my economics from high school years and years ago explained: «If you would ask people whether they want a free ice cream every day after work, would you say no?

A perfect storm of high lake levels, ice formation and unprecedented spring rains flooded shoreline communities along Lake Ontario earlier this year, and that would have occurred with or without the new lake - level regulating Plan 2014, International Joint Commission officials said at an environmental conference in Buffalo.

The Fentons opened Main Street Ice Cream in 2009 and over the years have held numerous fundraisers, partnering with Ride for Roswell, local veterans on Veterans Day, youth baseball, Hamburg High School, the Hamburg Community Playground Project, and numerous groups through the annual Scarecrow project.

Ergo, Hancock concludes, «at the very least it would mean that some as yet unknown and unidentified people somewhere in the world, had already mastered all the arts and attributes of a high civilization more than twelve thousand years ago in the depths of the last Ice Age and had sent out emissaries around the world to spread the benefits of their knowledge.»

The last seven years witnessed the seven lowest minimum extents since satellite observations began in 1979, and there was last a record high with Arctic ice cover two decades ago, according to federal data.

Despite being classified as rare disease, public awareness is very high, fueled by celebrity patients like Stephen Hawking and culminating in last years» Ice Bucket Challenge, the first charity campaign with global impact.

Yes, Virginia, There Was a Big Bang Scientists using a radio telescope atop the 10,000 - foot - high Antarctic ice sheet have detected a 14 - billion - year - old pattern from the Big Bang.

And at high global latitudes, cold lakes normally covered by ice in the winter are seeing less ice year after year — a change that could affect all parts of the food web, from algae to freshwater seals.

The team of researchers examined the hydroclimatic and societal impacts in Egypt of a sequence of tropical and high - latitude volcanic eruptions spanning the past 2,500 years, as known from modern ice - core records.

The record follows a trend over the past three years of anomalously high winter ice extents, providing a stark contrast to the inexorable decline of Arctic sea ice

It may not be a road map to the next 100 years, but the Pliocene is a rough guide to the high sea levels, vanishing ice and altered weather patterns that might arrive hundreds to thousands of years from now.

The ice core data also shows that CO2 and methane levels have been remarkably stable in Antarctica — varying between 300 ppm and 180 ppm — over that entire period and that shifts in levels of these gases took at least 800 years, compared to the roughly 100 years in which humans have increased atmospheric CO2 levels to their present high.

Planetary scientists expect that mixtures of dust and ice turn black after billions of years of irradiation by photons and high - energy particles from the sun, but they don't yet know the details of that composition.

«It may even be possible to predict sea ice cover a year in advance with high - quality observations of sea ice thickness and snow cover over the whole Arctic,» said Cecilia Bitz, co-author and professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington.

The study compared weather patterns during low sea ice conditions as seen in recent years to weather patterns during high sea ice conditions typical of the late 1970s.

This year's record low happened just two years after several monthly record high sea ice extents in Antarctica and decades of moderate sea ice growth.

We show that high - altitude southern Greenland, currently lying below more than 2 kilometers of ice, was inhabited by a diverse array of conifer trees and insects within the past million years.

Lonnie Thompson, an earth scientist at The Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center who also is not part of the project and has been drilling ice cores on the world's highest mountain ranges for 38 years.

The sea ice fringing Antarctica also set a record low for its annual summer minimum (with the seasons opposite in the Southern Hemisphere), though this was in sharp contrast to the record highs racked up in recent years.

The Arctic has been one of the areas of the world that has seen sky - high temperatures this year, which have led to record - low sea ice levels.

«Later, the sea ice gradually expanded from the very high Arctic before reaching, for the first time, what we now see as the boundary of the winter ice around 2.6 million years ago,» says Jochen Knies, who is also attached to CAGE, the Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate at the University of Tromsø, the Arctic University of Norway.

Earlier studies of lakeshore deposits had shown that the lake was at its highest every 2000 years, matching advances of ice sheets.

Antarctic sea ice extent reached a record high this year on 22 September, topping 20 million square kilometers for the first time since 1979, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Centice extent reached a record high this year on 22 September, topping 20 million square kilometers for the first time since 1979, according to the National Snow and Ice Data CentIce Data Center.

«Modern atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are today equivalent to those about three million years ago, when sea level was at least six meters higher because the ice sheets were greatly reduced.

The region has set records for low sea ice levels and high temperatures in recent years.

Among the many discoveries on matter at high pressure that garnered him the Nobel Prize in 1946, scientist Percy Bridgman discovered five different crystalline forms of water ice, ushering in more than 100 years of research into how ice behaves under extreme conditions.

Those high temperatures have kept Arctic sea ice to record low levels; the Arctic looks to see a record low winter maximum sea ice area for the third year in a row.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet sits below sea level today, but 34 million years ago, it sat on a much higher mountain range.

Even the ocean around Antarctica, which for a few years had a very high amount of ice, has had a very low amount of sea ice this year.

In previous years, Antarctic sea ice hit record highs, potentially due to changing ocean conditions linked to the melting of land - bound glaciers.

Greenland's ice sheet melted nearly 19 billion tons more than the previous high mark, and the volume of Arctic sea ice at summer's end was half what it was just four years ago, according to new NASA satellite data obtained by the Associated Press (AP).

We know that the magnitude of year - to - year variability of sea ice in Antarctica is very high compared to the long term trend [Fig 1].

During the last deglaciation, and likely also the three previous ones, the onset of warming at both high southern and northern latitudes preceded by several thousand years the first signals of significant sea level increase resulting from the melting of the northern ice sheets linked with the rapid warming at high northern latitudes (Petit et al., 1999; Shackleton, 2000; Pépin et al., 2001).

Feb. 5, 2018 - Among the many discoveries on matter at high pressure that garnered him the Nobel Prize in 1946, scientist Percy Bridgman discovered five different crystalline forms of water ice, ushering in more than 100 years of research into how ice behaves under extreme conditions.

After the September low, ice began to build up again in the Arctic; rapidly at first, compared to other years, then slowing during October and November as the region experienced a spell of exceptionally high temperatures.

«The ice core record ends about 450 years ago, so the modern melt rates in these cores are the highest of the whole record that we can see,» Osterberg said.

There just isn't much ice left, and what is left would be extremely difficult to melt, as most of it is located at high latitudes around the poles which are mostly dark 6 months out of the year with way below freezing temperatures.