Sentences with phrase «ice a year added»

The net loss of billions of tons of ice a year added about 11 millimeters — seven - sixteenths of an inch — to global average sea levels between 1992 and 2011, about 20 % of the increase during that time, those researchers reported.

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Novelty or gimmick ice cube trays have become increasingly popular in recent years, likely because they are a relatively inexpensive way to add a blast of fun to a special occasion.

The melting adds between 120 and 140 tons of ice to the ocean, which scientists say will raise water levels globally anywhere from 1.33 to 1.5 inches each year.

The York, UK - based ice cream manufacturer behind the frozen yogurt brand Yoryog has added four new sizes to the range that launched earlier this year.

Last year I always had a lot leftover when I was making candied ginger at the restaurant I worked at: I added it to matcha green tea, and made iced beverages for staff!

«She crossed paths with a one - year - old celebrating her first birthday and her first taste of ice cream,» Whidden says, adding that the universal appeal of ice cream is part of what makes Fentons Creamery one of Oakland's most popular destinations.

«Look at ice cream — it used to be considered just a seasonal item, but now you see it in stores year - round,» he adds.

Perez had been producing cheese from the start and added the ice cream and frozen yogurt two years ago.

I love using frozen fruit in smoothies, you don't have to add ice and you can get the fruit all year round.

Then I would add stevoside (Kal brand is all I use - it lasts three years or longer and I make up to three gallons of ice tea twice a week for my family of six!)

This is the one month of the year when I can't help myself and will find a way to add icing, fancy toppings and sauces to absolutely everything because calories don't count in December, right?

No wonder they've been a hit in no - sugar - added ice cream for years.

Next year, Dunkin' will add a Cookies «n» Cream flavor to its existing four - SKU iced coffee lineup.

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Shinji Okazaki added the icing to the cake with this strike in the second half, with the 29 - year - old securing all three points for the visitors on another memorable afternoon in what is turning out to be a sensational season for the club.

The park will be adding more food kiosks this year with delicious eats like funnel cake sundaes, ice cream floats, walking tacos, Jet's Pizza and more!

The American Hockey League team has agreed to a 15 - year contract that will pay the district $ 300,000 a year to rent ice time on two rinks that will be added to the center, along with offices for the team.

A 10 per cent rise in snowfall in Antarctica is adding more ice to the continent each year, but the ice sheets are still shrinking because it's being lost faster too

How long these under - ice explosions of life have been going on is uncertain, he adds, because it is not year clear how closely tied the blooms are to the thinning sea ice and proliferating melt ponds caused by global climate change.

Not only is Greenland's melting ice sheet adding huge amounts of water to the oceans, it could also be unleashing 400,000 metric tons of phosphorus every year — as much as the mighty Mississippi River releases into the Gulf of Mexico, according to a new study.

What they found was that local destabilization of the Amundsen Sea region of West Antarctica ultimately causes the entire ice sheet to fall into the ocean over several centuries to several thousands of years, gradually adding 3 meters to global sea levels, they report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The study concluded that there was a net loss of ice between 2002 and 2005, adding 0.4 millimetres per year to sea levels (see Gravity reveals shrinking Antarctic ice).

«There have been many efforts over the years to photograph the edge of the ice sheet, for many purposes,» he added.

Complementary analyses of the surface mass balance of Greenland (Tedesco et al, 2011) also show that 2010 was a record year for melt area extent... Extrapolating these melt rates forward to 2050, «the cumulative loss could raise sea level by 15 cm by 2050 ″ for a total of 32 cm (adding in 8 cm from glacial ice caps and 9 cm from thermal expansion)- a number very close to the best estimate of Vermeer & Rahmstorf (2009), derived by linking the observed rate of sea level rise to the observed warming.

«The deposition of mercury into the sea occurs all year - long but increases during the Antarctic spring, when the sunlight returning causes reactions that boost the amount of mercury that falls onto sea ice and the ocean,» Ms Gionfriddo added.

From 2001 to 2010, the amount of water added to the ice sheet each year was 15 centimeters (6 inches) greater than it was before 1900, according to the study's authors.

This adds evidence for the controversial theory that seafaring people used a coastal route to move from Asia to North America at the very end of the last ice age, which ended 11,700 years ago.

And, if you were like the 40 - year - old self - deprecating gentleman himself, you may have added that he's the performer who's been told he strongly resembles a hammerhead shark, a «lizard man» or Sid the Sloth from the Ice Age films.

As for Perry's extraordinary record of achievement, the article noted that, «To add the icing on the cake, since its first graduating class in 2006, Capital Preparatory Magnet School has sent 100 percent of its first generation high school graduates to four - year colleges.»

Add the fact that Sony has recently reneged on Ice Cream Sandwich updates for last year's Xperia Arc and Xperia mini pro, casts a shadow of doubt that current Xperia models will get very far in terms of Android OS updates.

«I'm not inventing color that is not there,» said Mr. Thiel in an e-mail, adding that the ice in Patagonia first impressed him during a visit there some 15 years ago.

About 200 ZJ added to climate over the 35 years (1971 - 2006) based on temperatures and lost ice mass.

The average thickness is usually still falling at this time of year (presumably because thin ice is being added) but it has not yet been calculated for this year.

The only thought I have to add is that with all of the first year ice that is around the big question is how thick it is now and how much will survive the summer.

Added to this is a term according to (4) simply based on the assumption that the accelerated ice flow observed 1993 - 2003 remains constant ever after, adding another 3 cm by the year 2095.

But that could change next year as the second - year ice adds mass through the long winter freeze.

Ignatius Rigor, a climate and ice researcher at the University of Washington (who's been heard from here quite a lot in recent years), added this note (in the group exchange with Francis, Eicken and others):

This plot is from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, and they have an interactive version where you can add or subtract various years.

If you click on previous years to add them to the graph, you'll see that the past ten years or so have had very low ice minima; these correspond to most of the warmest years on record.

Although that's really all that needs be said, I should add that jetfuel is trying to compare cumulative year - over-year land ice mass loss in Antarctica with (cyclical) seasonal river / lake ice volume gain in Canada - and ignoring the inevitable melt - away of the latter.

He added: «Even if the ice doesn't completely disappear, it is very likely that this will be a record low year.»

When rain falls instead of snow during winter, vegetation can ice over and be unavailable to pikas, which supplement their haystacks with year - round foraging, he added.

If the Arctic Sea is covered with ice in the summer - as it has been dating back perhaps thousands, to millions of years - the incoming sunlight is mostly reflected back to space without adding any heat to the Earth.

And this year's data is giving a very strong indication that adding CO2 to the atmopshere has zero effect on Arctric sea ice extent.

The northern melting will likely add to sea level rise explains lead author, Shfaqat Abbas Khan: «If this activity in northwest Greenland continues and really accelerates some of the major glaciers in the area — like the Humboldt Glacier and the Peterman Glacier — Greenland's total ice loss could easily be increased by an additional 50 to 100 cubic kilometers (12 to 24 cubic miles) within a few years.»

A study last year showed that between April 2002 and February 2009 the Greenland ice sheet lost 385 cubic miles of ice, adding approximately 0.5 millimeters of sea - level rise every year.

More carbon dioxide was added to the atmosphere in the past 200 years than between the last Ice Age and the Industrial Revolution.

Arctic air temperatures are increasing at twice the rate of the rest of the world — a study by the U. S. Navy says that the Arctic could lose its summer sea ice by next year, eighty - four years ahead of the models — and evidence little more than a year old suggests the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is doomed, which will add between twenty and twenty - five feet to ocean leveice by next year, eighty - four years ahead of the models — and evidence little more than a year old suggests the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is doomed, which will add between twenty and twenty - five feet to ocean leveIce Sheet is doomed, which will add between twenty and twenty - five feet to ocean levels.

He added, «By observation of a number of natural internal processes we can find further support for the coming change and I have referred before to the confirmed slowdown of the Gulf Stream, the effect of major endothermic polar ice melt and forecast reduction in solar activity after 70 years of extreme activity not seen for 8000 years before.

If the 1.441 mm depth had warmed by 0.700 C same as the ocean - air interface then oceans would gain no heat, but the massive colder oceans below will only let 1.441 mm to < several tens - to - hundreds of metres > depth warm by 0.697 C and only when the entire ocean has warmed by 0.700 C in a few thousand years will it let that 1.441 mm depth warm the final 0.003 C and stop heat gain with 4,100 ZettaJoules of heat having been added to the oceans, enough to melt 13,666,666 cubic kilometres of ice.