Sentences with phrase «ice behavior at»

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.

It allows scientists to measure a variety of ice behaviors at conditions that are applicable to both terrestrial glaciers and icy moon surfaces.

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Murali Haran, a professor in the department of statistics at Penn State University; Won Chang, an assistant professor in the department of mathematical sciences at the University of Cincinnati; Klaus Keller, a professor in the department of geosciences and director of sustainable climate risk management at Penn State University; Rob Nicholas, a research associate at Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University; and David Pollard, a senior scientist at Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University detail how parameters and initial values drive an ice sheet model, whose output describes the behavior of the ice sheet through time.

The team led by Associate Professor Shogo Tachibana of Hokkaido University discovered that ultraviolet - irradiated amorphous ice which mimics interstellar ice exhibited liquid - like behavior at extremely low temperature ranges.

But our understanding of the ice sheet's complex behavior before about 125,000 years ago has been fragmentary at best.

Liquid - like behavior of UV - irradiated interstellar ice analog at low temperatures.

As their hunting behavior shifts from ice to land, the polar bears «have progressively arrived earlier and earlier to have access to more eggs,» says biologist Børge Moe, another principal author of the study who works at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Kongsfjorden, where seabird egg predation is just beginning to increase.

«Our work provides experimental evidence for superionic ice and shows that these predictions were not due to artifacts in the simulations, but actually captured the extraordinary behavior of water at those conditions.

Lars Stixrude, a geologist at University College London, calls the idea «fascinating» — although he warns that science's understanding of the behavior of materials under the extreme temperatures and pressures of an ice - giant core is still incomplete.

Many random systems that describe the physical world, even those with very simple descriptions, can have dramatically different behaviors at different temperatures, such as solid ice turning to liquid water at a prescribed temperature.

The information from the study helps improve scientists» understanding of the behavior of the ice sheet and what processes control the loss of ice, Beata Csatho, a geophysicist at the University of Buffalo in New York who was not involved with the work, said in a commentary published in the same issue of Nature.

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 understandiIce Outlook» this year, aimed at comparing predictions of ice behavior by different groups using different methods as a way to build understandiice behavior by different groups using different methods as a way to build understanding.

CANCÚN, Mexico --- As the main plenary session at climate talks here was getting under way on Tuesday, I received word that Lonnie Thompson, a longtime student of ice and climate at Ohio State University, has a paper coming out in a behavior journal, The Behavior Analyst, concluding with unusual bluntness that humanity is in deep behavior journal, The Behavior Analyst, concluding with unusual bluntness that humanity is in deep Behavior Analyst, concluding with unusual bluntness that humanity is in deep trouble.

There is no reason whatsoever to expect that similar behavior will be seen at the different poles; a few feet of ice floating on water is not exactly the same as two kilometers of ice piled up on a continent (East Antarctica) nor is either of those much like a kilometer of ice sitting on the sea floor (West Antarctica).

However, the great majority of previous work only focuses on one portion of the ice shelf at a time, or only short snapshots of the ice shelves» behavior.

This behavior was consistent with what researchers said is a linear decrease in ice levels normally seen at this time of year.

Based on these projections and previous model behavior, the output suggests 2012 will be at or below the previous record minimum September ice extent, set in 2007 and repeated in 2011.

The continental - scale behavior of the ice sheets depends upon difficult - to - model physics taking place at a much smaller scale.

«There's been a lot of speculation about the stability of marine ice sheets, and many scientists suspected that this kind of behavior is under way,» Ian Joughin, a glaciologist at the University of Washington in Seattle, said in a news release about one of the studies published Monday.

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