Sentences with phrase «ice at the grounding»

That information could eventually help them estimate an important number: the rate at which the ocean water is melting ice at the grounding zone.

Further up - glacier, the ice at the grounding line is 600 - 700 m thick.

Not exact matches

Peter Neff, a glaciologist at the University of Rochester who travels regularly to the Antarctic, said ground observations would never tell you the full story of what's going on with ice sheets in that part of the world.

At Sub Zero, customers can customize their ice cream from the ground up.

Cinnamon - chocolate fruit mince tarts slightly adapted from Australian Gourmet Traveller 270g dark brown sugar 300g raisins 300g dried cranberries 3 tablespoons brandy 100g unsalted butter, melted 100g glacé orange, finely chopped 2 Granny Smith apples, coarsely grated 1 orange, finely grated zest and juice 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg 1 vanilla bean, halved lengthwise, seeds scraped 100g dark chocolate (70 % cocoa solids), coarsely chopped 1 1/2 tablespoons demerara sugar, for scattering Cinnamon pastry: 180g softened unsalted butter 200g pure icing sugar, sifted 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon 4 eggs 500g all purpose flour pinch of salt Combine all ingredients except chocolate and demerara sugar in a large bowl, stir to combine, then spoon into sterilized jars * and refrigerate for at least 1 day or up to 2 weeks, inverting jar occasionally.

The survey asked participants questions relating to: cola drink, coffee from coffee shop, soft drinks, standard milk chocolate, green tea and black tea, instant coffee, ground coffee (at home or work), dark chocolate, energy drink, espresso coffee, iced coffee drink, iced tea drink, chocolate energy bar, extra caffeinated cola drink.

Together, they represent 70 % of the weekly caffeine intake, with coffee (instant, café / coffee shop, ground coffee at home, iced coffee, and espresso) collectively contributing a 52 % and tea (iced, green, and black) contributing 19 %.

1) Mix flour, butter and icing sugar in a bowl using two knives to cut the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs 2) Add in the egg yolks and vanilla extracts and mix well, then add iced water until the dough starts to come together 3) Shape the dough into a ball on a cool, flat, floured surface 4) Flatten dough into a disc and then wrap in plastic wrap, and chill in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes 5) Meanwhile, peel, core and slice the apples into as thin slices as possible 6) Mix sugar and ground cinnamon powder with sliced apples and let it rest for a while 7) Pre-heat oven to 180 deg cel 8) Once dough has chilled, roll pastry dough on a sheet of parchment paper until it has expanded to the size of the tart mold (I used a rough mold the size of a large pizza) 9) Leaving at least an inch of dough free, arrange apple slices by overlapping them slightly in the shape of a circle, starting from the outermost part of the circle, until you reach the inside 10) Fold the edges of dough over the filling and then sprinkle the dough with a bit of sugar 11) Bake for about 40 - 45 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown and the apples are soft 12) Serve warm, with a side of whipped cream or ice cream (optional)

Blend until ice is well grounded, serve at once.

On Monday, Nov. 9, the foodie fun continues with a Wild Game Dinner featuring beer pairings by Wood Boat Brewery, kicking off at 6 p.m.The seven - course menu consists of Wild Boar Belly Salad and Pardon Me Pale Ale; Grilled Pheasant and Burrville Hard Apple Cider; Blackened Rabbit Saddle with Quail Egg Bearnaise and Channel Marker IPA; Golden Beet Gelato with Mascarpone and Poppyseed; Reisling - Braised Venison Shank and Oatmeal Stout; Elk Loin with Stone Ground Mustard Reduction and Cherry Wheat Ale; and Candied Duck Prosciutto with New York Maple Ice Cream and Punkin» Wheat Ale.

for the crust 1 tablespoon ground chia seeds 3 - 4 tablespoons ice cold water, divided 1/2 cup coconut oil — cold and solid, plus more for oiling the springform — at room temperature 3/4 cup oat flour (I use ground rolled oats) 1/2 cup almond flour 1/4 cup tapioca flour 2 tablespoons coconut sugar pinch sea salt

The fact that everyone on the bench saw this play, most everyone on the ice saw the play, or at least saw Staal crumpled to the ground is a testament to the lack of heart and gutlessness this team has displayed all year, and pretty much throughout the tenure of this playoff run.

Then as he skated off the ice, he smashed his helmet on the ground and then picked up a chair and threw it at a door.

Digging into the past, he's +50 over his career, his stats took a noticeable hit when he was moved into a shutdown role, didn't get much ice after an elbow injury, apparently is pretty decent at grinding and stealing pucks, and he's got 21 game winning goals and played well with Ward.

«Sometimes the most exciting thing at the zoo might not be the lion's den or that exhibit way over there, but the squirrel that's climbing up the tree or the ants crawling over the sidewalk where someone dropped their ice cream on the ground,» says Bruck.

When weather conditions allow (an average temperature of 20 degrees Fahrenheit or colder for 5 consecutive days, 5 - 6 inches of ground frost), park district staff will begin flooding the ice rink at Sunset Woods Park.

The white spots would seem to be exposed ice, Brown says, but observations of Ceres with ground - based telescopes don't show any evidence of ice at the bright spots» locations.

Just as the same genes that allow Deinococcus to thrive on the ground may give it the ability to survive at high altitudes, the ice - nucleation gene may originally have given syringae and bacteria like it an advantage other than rainmaking.

There could be eons - old ice deposits buried below ground and newer water at the surface.

Mote was one of 12 lead authors on a chapter of the fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report looking at the cryosphere, which is comprised of snow, river and lake ice, sea ice, glaciers, ice sheets and frozen ground.

Many clouds at mid-latitudes make rain by freezing water into ice crystals (which fall from the cloud then melt before they hit the ground), rather than by coalescing warm water droplets together.

The hope is that the cables could reveal secrets about what's happening underneath the ice sheets, especially about melting at the so - called grounding line, the place where the bottom of an ice sheet meets the slightly warmer ocean.

And in 2007, a team of researchers using ice - penetrating radar reported finding a wedge of sediment 30 meters thick at the grounding zone of the Whillans Ice Streice - penetrating radar reported finding a wedge of sediment 30 meters thick at the grounding zone of the Whillans Ice StreIce Stream.

This isolated cavity of seawater, down at the grounding zone, sits deep beneath the back corner of the ice shelf — 850 kilometers back from where the edge of the ice meets the open sea.

At present the ice sheet is grounded on underwater islands, which insulate some of the ice from the melting effect of the seawater upon which the rest of the sheet floats.

Thousands of marks on the Antarctic seafloor, caused by icebergs which broke free from glaciers more than ten thousand years ago, show how part of the Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated rapidly at the end of the last ice age as it balanced precariously on sloping ground and became unstabIce Sheet retreated rapidly at the end of the last ice age as it balanced precariously on sloping ground and became unstabice age as it balanced precariously on sloping ground and became unstable.

They found that, as seas warmed at the end of the last ice age, Pine Island Glacier retreated to a point where its grounding line — the point where it enters the ocean and starts to float — was perched precariously at the end of a slope.

At the grounding line, the ice detaches from the bedrock and juts out into the water as a kind of floating ledge, or ice shelf, which helps to stabilize the glacier and hold back the flow of ice behind it.

In a presentation Thursday at the Seismology Society of America's annual meeting in Anchorage, West showed that long - ignored data within the state's earthquake records faithfully capture dynamic change occurring above ground: ice breaking off of glaciers and falling into water, the phenomenon known as calving.

Although CryoSat - 2 is designed to measure changes in the ice sheet elevation, these can be translated into horizontal motion at the grounding line using knowledge of the glacier and sea floor geometry and the Archimedes principle of buoyancy — which relates the thickness of floating ice to the height of its surface.

Research by the UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) at the University of Leeds has produced the first complete map of how the ice sheet's submarine edge, or «grounding line,» is shifting.

Between 2002 and 2007, satellite measurements showed that ice from the glacier's grounding line, the spot where it transitions from being on the land to in the sea, thinned at a rate of 1.2 meters to 6 meters per year.

The scientists stressed the need for more study of the conditions at the bottom of the ice sheet because of a proposal published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1973 to use the ice sheet as a dumping ground for radioactive waste.

After Levy and colleagues noted visible effects of ground ice retreat in Garwood Valley, they began to monitor the valley, combining time - lapse photography and weather - station data at 15 - minute intervals to create a detailed view of the conditions under which the ice, a relict from the last ice age, is being lost.

It can house more than 100 people above ground at a time, while fuel and cargo storage, waste - management facilities, maintenance garages and a power plant are all located beneath the surface of the ice sheet.

A string of DOMs is essentially a telescope pointed at the ground: The DOMs will look for neutrinos that originated in the northern sky, passed through the Earth without resistance, and lodged themselves in the South Pole's ice.

Materials known to exist at Pluto's surface from ground - based spectroscopic observations include highly volatile cryogenic ices of N2 and CO, along with somewhat less volatile CH4 ice, as well as H2O and C2H6 ices and more complex tholins that are inert at Pluto surface temperatures.

At this point, the ice becomes disconnected from the ground and turns into a kind of floating ledge, known as an ice shelf, that juts out into the ocean from the front of the glacier.

For a separate study, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Ala Khazendar — a co-author of Scheuchl's paper — measured ice loss at the bottom of the three glaciers, which he suspected might be influencing the changes in their grounding lines.

In Antarctica, dynamic thinning has accelerated at the grounding lines of the major glaciers of the Amundsen Sea embayment, and in places has penetrated to within 100 km of the ice divides.

The ice is frozen to the ground underneath that part of the Devon Ice Cap, so we didn't expect to find liquid water,» said Anja Rutishauser, coauthor and a PhD student at the University of Alberice is frozen to the ground underneath that part of the Devon Ice Cap, so we didn't expect to find liquid water,» said Anja Rutishauser, coauthor and a PhD student at the University of AlberIce Cap, so we didn't expect to find liquid water,» said Anja Rutishauser, coauthor and a PhD student at the University of Alberta.

The rates at which the grounding lines of the ice streams recede will increase.

Ice velocity profile across Ice Streams D and E at their grounding line.

Warming is maximum at grounding line depths (∼ 1 — 2 km) of Antarctic ice shelves (Rignot and Jacobs, 2002).

The space agency is launching these missions at a time when decades of observations from the ground, air, and space have revealed signs of change in Earth's ice sheets, sea ice, glaciers, snow cover and permafrost.

Schematic cartoon of a glacier flowing into an ice shelf, showing the grounding line and calving at the ice cliff at the edge of the ice shelf.

This is because it is grounded below sea level, and marine ice sheets such as these are susceptible to rapid melting at their base.

She has shown, in an ice sheet model with gravitationally self - consistent sea level, there is actually a sea level fall at the grounding line, which acts to stabilize against the marine ice sheet instability.

The ice sheet in this area is grounded up to 2000 m below sea level, making it intrinsically unstable6 and susceptible to rapid melting at its base, and to rapid migration of the grounding line up the ice stream7 (see Marine Ice Sheet Instabilitice sheet in this area is grounded up to 2000 m below sea level, making it intrinsically unstable6 and susceptible to rapid melting at its base, and to rapid migration of the grounding line up the ice stream7 (see Marine Ice Sheet Instabilitice stream7 (see Marine Ice Sheet InstabilitIce Sheet Instability).

In this case, incursions of circumpolar deep water onto the continental shelf are melting the ice stream at its base and encouraging grounding line recession, which results in a positive feedback loop and further grounding line recession.