Sentences with phrase «how ice moves»

This is a question that a number of scientists are now trying to answer by studying how ice moves.

Scientists are interested in how the shape of this hidden terrain affects how ice moves — a key factor in making predictions about the future of...

Not exact matches

Now let's move on to how much I love ice - cream, shall we?

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The first - ever map of how Antarctica's ice is moving across that continent has been created by researchers at the University of California, Irvine.

Because the way in which water moves beneath ice sheets strongly affects ice flow speeds, improved understanding of these lakes will allow us to predict more accurately how the ice sheet will respond to anticipated future warming.»

The researchers also analyzed historical US army engineering documents to determine where and how deep the wastes were buried and how much that part of the ice cap had moved since the 1960s.

As a snake moves, its scales grip the ground and propel the body forward — similar to how crampons help hikers establish footholds in slippery ice.

«Radar data from NASA's Operation Ice Bridge program has told us a lot about the shape of Thwaites Glacier, but it's very difficult to see how water is moving.

How soon humanity will have to move inland to escape rising seas depends in great part on how quickly West Antarctica's massive ice sheet shrinHow soon humanity will have to move inland to escape rising seas depends in great part on how quickly West Antarctica's massive ice sheet shrinhow quickly West Antarctica's massive ice sheet shrinks.

A Tale of Two Cities: Miami, New York and Life on the Edge Epic Drought in West is Literally Moving Mountains Here's How Arctic Sea Ice Could Shrink Even More

While the water under the Antarctic ice is not itself related to global warming, the suprisingly large amount of water, the surprising speed with which it moves, and its effect of «lubricating» the movement of the Antarctic ice, may affect how the ice sheets respond to warming.

I am not surprised, because I had no preconcieved notion of how much water is under the ice and how it moves.

It's the fast - moving ice that determines how the ice sheet responds to climate change on a short timescale,» said Robert Bindschadler, a NASA scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland, one of the study's co-authors.

The project, called the Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment, was the first major study of how sea - ice moves and changes due to ocean and atmosphere influencIce Dynamics Joint Experiment, was the first major study of how sea - ice moves and changes due to ocean and atmosphere influencice moves and changes due to ocean and atmosphere influences.

Despite the ice sheet's remote location, its slushy fingers reach across the globe, influencing sea levels and how fast the Gulf Stream current moves.

We froze samples in a -80 °C freezer and then moved them to a closed dry ice storage container for 48 hours (to replicate how our viruses are shipped), where they would be exposed to a closed environment containing CO2 (from the dry ice).

We believe that the standfirst of this piece, which states that the author «takes issue with some common misconceptions about how ice - sheets move, and doubts many pronouncements about the «collapse» of the planet's ice sheets» misleads the reader by assuming that Ollier's arguments are correct.

GPS stations record how the bedrock is moving in response to changes in ice mass.

It didn't help that I spent two hours on the ice rink helping a girl learn how to skate for the first time and move at snail's pace.

The levels available were ice - based (I didn't get their names) and I was instantly faced with one of those lovely «Help» icons that tell you how to move.

How does the system perform: When all differentials are unlocked, the car will not be able to move if one wheel (front or rear) loses traction (is on ice or raised in the air).

While the Transformer runs Android 3.0, ASUS has added a very clever MyWater wallpaper: Ice cubes floating in water slosh around as you move the tablet, and the water level rises and lowers according to how much battery life is left.

- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six areas altogether - find all the treasure and look for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see enemies and platforms that were hidden in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down into new areas - in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out fire and clear the way for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».

Because we don't know for sure how much additional warming will be necessary to melt the Greenland ice sheet, we ought to be moving forward with the idea that we need to stop as much additional warming as possible.

I saw the photo, and I wanted calculate how far is 400 yds / hr ~ 0.22 miles / hr ~ 82.95 mi / year ~ 37.5 years, and the north pole will be in Philadelphia:) I'm guess that the ice floats around the north pole and it doesn't move a straight line away from the «true» north pole... right?

As I mentioned before, the Russians know how to move snow and break ice.

Just ask the dinosaurs or remember the ice age and how huge glaciers melting and moving formed our Great Lakes.

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The problem I have with them, is how they can time - sequence material that may have thawed and re-froze a few times and the fact that particulate can move through ice.

In a new study, researchers have observed an expansion of the crevasse fields in one portion of the Greenland ice sheet, a change that they suggest may influence how the ice sheets move toward the ocean and raise sea levels.

«Polar bears are having to make their decisions about how to move and where to go on thinner ice pack that's mostly first - year ice.»

The graphs depict how much the sea ice concentration moved above or below the long - term average.

The video, filmed over a period of six months, begins with moving commentary from a Greenland native, who speaks about how the melting ice is affecting their local food supply today.