Sentences with phrase «ice barrier»

the Atlantic and Pacific Bowheads are genetically different suggesting a long long time of ice barriers, in other words, this seasonal melting of vast Arctic Ocean ice, never happenned, all the way back to when there was no Bowhead DNA distinction.

These events happen when winter rain percolates through snow and forms an impenetrable ice barrier over moss and lichen at the soil surface.

After Chunky brakes the various ice barriers in the Crystal caves lobby, Lanky can go and take his blueprint piece from Kasplat.

A lead (area of open water) was noted across Robeson Channel in an image acquired 24 June (not shown), indicating the presence of a potential ice barrier across the channel that could be blocking the southward flow of ice originating in the Lincoln Sea.

The absence of an insulating sea ice barrier allows for energy and moisture exchange to rapidly warm and moisten the atmospheric column directly above and downwind of the polynya, altering regional atmospheric circulations.

Now that the ice is retreating, the ice barrier in the bay is reduced, allowing the glacier to speed up — and draw down the ice mass from the entire basin.

After Chunky destroys the ice barrier in the Crystal Caves lobby revealing a lake of lava and a Golden Banana across the lake way, Chunky can use the Tag Barrel to switch to DK and DK can become invincible to retrieve the Golden Banana by using his barrel move: «Strong Kong».

Indeed it happened a few times in the past, e.g. at the 8.2 ky event, when an enormous flow of sweet water from lake Agassiz entered the North Atlantic, due to the collapse of an ice barrier.

Here, the ice barrier in the western Kane Basin has begun breaking up on the 4th of July, two weeks later than predicted in the June outlook.

Dominant southerly winds throughout July and early August have prevented the drift of sea ice through Nares Strait into Baffin Bay even though the break - up of the ice barrier occurred in early July.

Gudmandsen and Kwok point out that the Lincoln Sea appears now to be recovering from the great ice outflow events of 2007 and 2008, with thicker ice building up after reestablishment of an ice barrier to the South.

Ice stops moving in winter, because an ice barrier (ice arch or ice bridge) forms in the south that blocks all southward motion of ice; 2.

Arctic ice moves freely through Nares Strait, because no ice barriers are present.

only new and young ice moves southward, because an ice barrier forms in the north that blocks all entry of Arctic ice into Nares Strait; and 3.

Once the ice barrier at the top of the strait gives way, ice from the Arctic Ocean can spill over into this region, affecting navigation, but also providing a mechanism to reduce ice concentrations in an area of very thick ice in the high Arctic.

Depending on air temperatures and winds that might influence this ice barrier, the flow of ice out of the Lincoln Sea is expected to begin the last week of July.