Sentences with phrase «ice behavior»

It allows scientists to measure a variety of ice behaviors at conditions that are applicable to both terrestrial glaciers and icy moon surfaces.
This means it is well within the bounds of normal sea ice behavior to see some increase after last year's record low.
And it also explains why I won't take a 50/50 bet about Arctic ice behavior in nine years, even while I will advocate for a transition to an energy menu that works for the long haul.
The pace of ice loss — both its extent and the amount of the older, thicker ice that survives from summer to summer — has been faster than most models predicted and clearly has, as a result, unnerved some polar researchers by revealing how much is unknown about ice behavior in a warming climate.
In the meantime, the small global network of ice, climate and ocean specialists trying to make sense of ice behavior at both poles are — as always — working to use each year's data to refine their still crude models.
Physical and mathematical model of ice behavior under dynamic loads as well as a numerical method for calculating its impact and explosive loading, capable of reproducing the main features and mechanisms of deformation and fracture has been developing are currently under development.
«Studying life on the rocks: Versatile tool measures changes in ice behavior over wide temperature range: Earth's glaciers to Saturn's moon.»
Wellner, J.S., Lowe, A.L., Shipp, S.S., and Anderson, J.B., 2002, Distribution of glacial geomorphic features on the Antarctic continental shelf and correlation with substrate: implications for ice behavior: Jour.
The study, being published in Geophysical Research Letters, also looked back at recent ice behavior and concluded that «internal variability explains approximately half of the observed 1979 — 2005 September Arctic sea ice extent loss.»
There'll be another round of «Sea Ice Outlook» this year, aimed at comparing predictions of ice behavior by different groups using different methods as a way to build understanding.
Read the studies by John Wettlaufer of Yale and others if you want to learn more about the chaotic nature of ice behavior on short time scales.
The science of predicting sea ice behavior in a warming world is still in early stages of understanding, and a good place to keep track of the learning curve is through the Sea Ice Outlook project, which I've covered periodically.
But I've long recognized the complexities in ice behavior that will probably result in some ice persisting, even in summer, through that span in some places and that also guarantee the path toward largely open Arctic waters will not be smooth.
Also, given the short time scale of satellite observations, does such pulse - style ice behavior add uncertainty to efforts to link greenhouse - driven warming to recent (post 2000) sea - ice behavior?
Bill Chapman, who manages the Cryosphere Today Web site at the university and analyzes trends at both poles, characterized this year's ice behavior this way in an e-mail:
Arctic sea ice behavior was unusual in 2010 in that the sea ice appeared to reach its minimum extent on September 10 and began growing again.
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