Sentences with phrase «ice and water might»

The thick covering of ice and water might mess up some of the geological processes that, at least on Earth, help regulate the planet's temperature over long periods of time.

Not exact matches

We also noticed that the water temperature was not, as you might expect, controlled by the hot and cold water knobs but rather by cabin poltergeists and vacillated between scalding hot and ice cold.

The mornings might still be early but at least don't involve scrabbling around for water bottles and trainers and we have time to play tennis and football in the garden, devour endless ice creams and picnic to our hearts content.

In the process, they might identify a planet's surface features — such as oceans, continents, ice caps and even cloudbanks — and detect the presence of biomarkers like oxygen, methane and water.

That might include draining away the water that lubricates the bottom of an ice sheet, speeding its progress to the sea, or installing barriers to prevent warming ocean waters from hitting the bottom of such glaciers and hastening meltdown.

And so it was, when I reported on January 21 that fish were found living in an isolated corner of the ocean beneath 740 meters of ice in Antarctica: People asked what this might mean for finding life on distant worlds such as Europa, a moon of Jupiter that very likely harbors an ocean of liquid water beneath a crust of ice.

This information would help Tulaczyk understand whether subglacial water lubricates the flow of ice, and whether it might play a role in the runaway acceleration of glaciers that has occurred in some parts of Antarctica.

What's left to figure out is whether this is happening with other subglacial lakes around the Greenland ice sheet, as well as whether and how to incorporate the findings into models that are aimed at gauging how much Greenland might change with the warming climate and how much water it could add to the rising seas.

For fourteen more orbits, the spacecraft focused on ice, water, and fire: the icy moon Europa, which might have an ocean; Jupiter's majestic thunderstorms; and the fiery volcanoes of Io.

The team suspects that some of the pockets in these gullies might have held water in various forms in the recent past, over the last few hundreds of thousands of years, periodically harboring snow and ice when the conditions were right.

Scientists think that in the «heart» region of Pluto (otherwise known as Sputnik Planum), water ice bedrock might be hidden underneath a thick blanket of other ices made of methane, nitrogen and carbon monoxide.

A new analysis of a Martian rock that meteorite hunters plucked from an Antarctic ice field 30 years ago this month reveals a record of the planet's climate billions of years ago, back when water likely washed across its surface and any life that ever formed there might have emerged.

Due to the positive feedback caused by the high albedo of snow and ice, susceptibility to falling into snowball states might be a generic feature of water - rich planets with the capacity to host life.

Water vapor can transport a lot of heat, so when Ceres formed 4.6 billion years ago, sublimation of water ice might have dissipated much of its heat into space, Campins and Comfort wWater vapor can transport a lot of heat, so when Ceres formed 4.6 billion years ago, sublimation of water ice might have dissipated much of its heat into space, Campins and Comfort wwater ice might have dissipated much of its heat into space, Campins and Comfort wrote.

If the craft were to crash on the surface of a cold moon like Enceladus, the RTGs could easily thaw a path through tens of kilometers of ice, and plop down into the liquid water ocean beneath, though this might take a long time.

Now, if you have all this very cold, nearly freezing water surrounding these ice caps, sucking up carbon dioxide out of the polar atmosphere, at nearly the highest possible rate, 30 times faster than oxygen, and 70 times faster than nitrogen, doesn't it stand to reason that the air that remains might just have a lot less carbon dioxide in it than the atmosphere across the rest of the planet?

The notch of water in the black and white cross-section of the ice might not look like much, but the small pools of water that persist through the winter have the potential to have large impacts on the sheet's durability.

Studies have found evidence that this Red Planet once had plenty of water — and that surface moisture or ice might still remain.

You might have heard of the practice in terms of professional athletes who us cryotherapy as an alternative to cold water immersion or ice packs as a way to decrease recovery time and increase performance.

With ice and snow in the forecast, the team opted for two durable, metal canoes instead of the fiberglass kayaks one might use in warmer water.

You might want to keep a fan and some ice water handy, because this story is H - O - T!

If the dog is vomiting water, you might need to dehydrate the dog for a while and administer a few ice chips until he feels okay.

The physical processes by which energy might be added into the glacier material include: (A) convection between the glacier surfaces and local surrounding atmosphere and water, (B) direct radiation onto the exposed surfaces of the material, (C) addition of material that is at a temperature higher than the melting temperature onto the top of the glacier (rain, say), (D) Sublimation of the ice directly into the atmosphere, and (E) conduction into the material from the contact areas between the glacier and surrounding solid material.

When you have the largest Atlantic storm in recorded history that is being feed by unusually warm ocean waters (+5 °F) and is being steered in a very unusual direction by a «3 - sigma» blocking higher over Greenland after the largest Arctic sea ice melt in human history, you might want to consider the «steroid» hypothesis a bit more.

Another possibility might be a slowing of deep circulation (not sure how much there is, mind), in which case the opposite occurs, and the surface waters heat up even faster, leading to yet more rapid surface melt, smaller winter ice volumes and so on.

(Often referred to as «externalities» in economics, examples of environmental goods might be the polar ice caps, unpolluted water, the earth's atmosphere, and so on).

We might have a saviour in the form of the growing antarctic ice sheets in the southern winter as this causes much more planckton to form on the undersurface of the forming ice sheet driving super saturated salty waters deep into the circum polar antarctic bottom waters which is the main driver of the Great Oceanic Conveyor and later on it's travels the AMOC.

I'm thinking that ice floats (esp in salt water, I suppose), and since this glacier bed is below sea level, and if sea water were to get into it (or even at front edge points where it meets the sea), a rising sea level might put even more upward pressure on the glacier.

If the Arctic ice is melting and more water vapour is rising into the stratosphere from there, then that might account for the clouds you are seeing, although they should soon start travelling north again.

Might relate to opening a super cold bottle of pop, or the glacial melt and refreeze that occurs almost instantly as shifts change the pressure being exerted on super cold ice that is almost water.

In 2013, US Navy researchers predicted ice - free summer Arctic waters by 2016 and it looks as if that prediction might come true.

Far more complex dynamics than one might assume — but the trend (and an accelerating one) is clear — more ice mass melting into water and flowing into the ocean.

Hailstones are created so it is believed, by a more or less continuous loop of being caught in violent updrafts as found in thunderstorms, ie; above glider example, and then falling out of the updraught cell back down to lower levels where they might be caught up again in another or the same updraft cell and so accumulate water and ice on the core of the frozen hailstone over a period of anywhere from just one passage in the updraft to a number of passages which can be ascertained and recognised by the number of rings when a hailstone is dissected across its diameter.

For example, Zhang, 2007 (Open access) proposed that warmer waters off Antarctica might make the water less salty, and that maybe this would stop the ice from melting.

Also that (diminishing) ice in the glass (sea) might be keeping the water cold, and when it's all melted, the warming might happen fairly rapidly.

However, detecting acceleration is difficult because of (i) interannual variability in GMSL largely driven by changes in terrestrial water storage (TWS)(7 ⇓ — 9), (ii) decadal variability in TWS (10), thermosteric sea level, and ice sheet mass loss (11) that might masquerade as a long - term acceleration over a 25 - y record, (iii) episodic variability driven by large volcanic eruptions (12), and (iv) errors in the altimeter data, in particular, potential drifts in the instruments over time (13).

The next stage might be to include some of the history of the subject and then proceed to the real experiment which would be to include some science, particularly the following topics, forcing, sensitivity, the role of water vapour, the oceans, feedbacks, delayed warming, finger - prints and understanding the ice cores.

«Significant loss of ice from polar ice sheets» Of course, this does not apply to floating ice (with the exception of small changes due to higher temperature and water expansion that might happen incidentally).

Or new engines might be designed to limit Vapor and instead spit out water drops or ice that fall from the sky.

Such conditions that might cause harm to a person can include any defective construction, improper maintenance, slippery surfaces caused by oil, water, snow or ice, or any other objects or obstructions that might cause a person to slip, trip, or fall, or that might hit and injure a person.

The clinking of ice in your glass will sound very loud to the person you're speaking with and might even make them think you're drinking Scotch on the rocks instead of plain water.