Sentences with phrase «ice conditions on»

Starting with ice conditions on 1 August, Meier et al. forecast a minimum of 5.0 million square kilometers if the ice continues to decline at a rate similar to climatology.

So, prompted by reports of the heaviest sea ice conditions on the East Coast «in decades» and news that ice on the Great Lakes is, for mid-April, the worst it's been since records began, I took a close look at ice thickness charts for the Arctic.

After the Obamacare lies, after the unusually cold winter the record ice conditions on the great lakes, this report will have the performance of a lead balloon.

As of this morning, the governor was continuing to urge people to avoid unnecessary travel, even though a travel ban had been lifted, saying there were dangerous black ice conditions on the roads.

Not exact matches

My feelings on this go two ways: yes, I agree — dessert is not a necessity and we are conditioned to want sweet at certain times regardless of actual hunger but also, we chose to have a small amount of fruit and nut butter — a huge departure from ice cream.

We were in an air conditioned room on a cool Chicago night, and the ice cream was turning to soup in a hurry.

Ice rink conditions are available on the park districts» websites.

Despite the worst ice conditions in years and a near catastrophic tent fire, we survived for 24 days on the ice and set the record for the first mother and son team to reach one of the Earth's poles by foot.

A vacuum chamber at NASA's Ames Research Center exposes ices found on meteors to space - like conditions.

Using laboratory experiments to study these conditions is difficult, as it is very hard to recreate the extreme pressures and temperatures found on ice giants, researchers say.

By mapping current conditions with the help of Inuit hunters as well as by compiling maps of the past based on oral histories and the memories of elders, the researchers hope to capture the Inuit's special understanding of sea ice.

Major climatic events such as ice ages ought to leave their imprint on life as species adapt to the new conditions.

Scientists using ice - penetrating radar data collected by NASA's Operation IceBridge and earlier airborne campaigns have built the first comprehensive map of layers deep inside the Greenland Ice Sheet, opening a window on past climate conditions and the ice sheet's potentially perilous futuice - penetrating radar data collected by NASA's Operation IceBridge and earlier airborne campaigns have built the first comprehensive map of layers deep inside the Greenland Ice Sheet, opening a window on past climate conditions and the ice sheet's potentially perilous futuIce Sheet, opening a window on past climate conditions and the ice sheet's potentially perilous futuice sheet's potentially perilous future.

For now, as I sit in my office with an iced coffee in hand and log on to Navigenics, I check out what I can do to prevent multiple conditions (as if it's a luxury): Exercise.

Making thin films out of semiconducting materials is analogous to how ice grows on a windowpane: When the conditions are just right, the semiconductor grows in flat crystals that slowly fuse together, eventually forming a continuous film.

Working in remote conditions, researchers in the winter of 2012 ran a drill through 450 meters of ice and 500 meters of ocean to collect seafloor sediments on either side of this lost bulwark.

After all, the brown bear that is its closest living relative lacks all of these adaptations, looks different, eats different food and would not fare well in the harsh conditions out on the Arctic ice.

On the other hand, wind turbines also have a habit of icing up and, occasionally, throwing ice under those kinds of frost conditions, says Kathryn McCullough, whose family owns a wind farm and an agricultural farm on the same land in OregoOn the other hand, wind turbines also have a habit of icing up and, occasionally, throwing ice under those kinds of frost conditions, says Kathryn McCullough, whose family owns a wind farm and an agricultural farm on the same land in Oregoon the same land in Oregon.

«Southern Ocean: Reconstructing environmental conditions over the past 30,000 years: Sea - ice zone has a major influence on the ecosystem.»

«Ice cores only tell you about temperatures in Antarctica,» Shakun notes of previous studies that relied exclusively on an ice core from Antarctica that records atmospheric conditions over the last 800,000 yeaIce cores only tell you about temperatures in Antarctica,» Shakun notes of previous studies that relied exclusively on an ice core from Antarctica that records atmospheric conditions over the last 800,000 yeaice core from Antarctica that records atmospheric conditions over the last 800,000 years.

During this time, when dinosaurs roamed the almost subtropical forests of an ice - free Antarctic, conditions on the other side of the planet were even more remarkable: the Arctic Ocean was a gigantic freshwater lake infested with crocodile - like reptiles.

«The conditions on Ceres are right for accumulating deposits of water ice,» said Norbert Schorghofer, a Dawn guest investigator at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

«If protective ice shelves were suddenly lost in the vast areas around the Antarctic margin where reverse - sloping bedrock (where the bed on which the ice sheet sits deepens toward the continental interior, rather than toward the ocean) is more than 1,000 meters deep, exposed grounding line ice cliffs would quickly succumb to structural failure as is happening in the few places where such conditions exist today,» the researchers point out.

In 2014, ALS returned to the spotlight with the «Ice Bucket Challenge,» which involved people pouring ice - cold water over their heads, posting a video on social media, and donating funds for research on the condition, whose sufferers include British physicist Stephen HawkiIce Bucket Challenge,» which involved people pouring ice - cold water over their heads, posting a video on social media, and donating funds for research on the condition, whose sufferers include British physicist Stephen Hawkiice - cold water over their heads, posting a video on social media, and donating funds for research on the condition, whose sufferers include British physicist Stephen Hawking.

The earth changed from warm and even tropical «greenhouse» conditions to cooler «icehouse» conditions which saw ice - caps develop on Antarctica.

Temperature versatility is important because increasing evidence documents dynamic and often unpredicted behavior of ice that could affect environmental conditions — as with glaciers on earth, for example — and explain the evolution of satellites» bodies in space, as with Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's Enceladus.

Under these conditions, a disproportionately rapid retreat of summertime sea ice in the central Arctic Ocean over the course of the next few decades, followed by its complete disappearance — depending on how quickly CO2 levels rise — roughly 250 years from now, is to be expected.

Europa has a global ocean locked away beneath a crust of ice; deep below, the moon's internal heat might create hospitable conditions, akin to hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the mid-Atlantic ridge and East Pacific Rise on Earth.

The Greenland Climate Network, a series of automated weather stations, monitors conditions on the ice sheet.

And the other thing that is really important is that the ice conditions change as the game goes on.

The conditions are reminiscent of soil in Antarctica's Dry Valleys, Kounaves said, referring to the hyperarid, ice - free regions where the merest wisp of life hangs on.

These flights also provided National Ice Center scientists on the Polar Star with aerial footage they evaluated along with satellite imagery to help better understand ice thickness, age and other conditioIce Center scientists on the Polar Star with aerial footage they evaluated along with satellite imagery to help better understand ice thickness, age and other conditioice thickness, age and other conditions.

Axel Timmermann and Tobias Friedrich of the University of Hawaii, Manoa, in Honolulu reconstructed conditions in northeastern Africa and the Middle East, based on the astronomical cycles that drove the ice ages.

The need to deal with extreme ice conditions in the south meant the ship would arrive too late on site to meet research objectives.

«We have little data on the ocean and ice shelf conditions in this region,» says Fernando Paolo, a geophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..

The researchers created a simulation that tracks meltwater runoff under a variety of atmospheric conditions, and they were surprised to discover that most of the meltwater found off the west coast of Greenland actually originated from ice on the east coast.

Understanding how that would affect the climate will require going beyond historical records of climate change, or even the information encoded in tree rings or ice cores, to what scientists call «deep time» records of conditions on Earth, according to a new NAS analysis.

During the later period, when there was less sea ice, the whales dove significantly longer and deeper than in the earlier period — presumably in search of prey as the animals, in turn, changed their habits because of different ocean conditions brought on by sea ice loss.

The report recommends beefing up forecasting systems for ocean and ice conditions, infrastructure for supply chains for people and equipment to respond, field research on the behavior of oil in the Arctic environment, and other strategies to prepare for a significant spill in the harsh conditions of the Arctic.

Among the many discoveries on matter at high pressure that garnered him the Nobel Prize in 1946, scientist Percy Bridgman discovered five different crystalline forms of water ice, ushering in more than 100 years of research into how ice behaves under extreme conditions.

New research from a team including Carnegie's Alexander Goncharov focuses on the physics underlying the formation of the types of ice that are stable under the paradoxical - seeming conditions likely to be found in planetary interiors.

At its height between 1960 and 1980, Polyarka was staffed by more than fifty working scientists, engineers, and technicians focused on measurements of surface weather, snow depth, sea ice, and conditions in the upper atmosphere.

The authors suggest that the cyclic sublimationcondensation of ice triggered by varying illumination conditions may be a general process acting on cometary nuclei.

But it is neat to note that Earth appears to have an inside - out twin, where tectonics driven by ice instead of fire could create ideal conditions for life inside its crust, instead of on its surface.

Bacteria, however, have remained Earth's most successful form of life — found miles deep below as well as within and on surface rock, within and beneath the oceans and polar ice, floating in the air, and within as well as on Homo sapiens sapiens; and some Arctic thermophiles apparently even have life - cycle hibernation periods of up to a 100 million years while waiting for warmer conditions underneath increasing layers of sea sediments (Lewis Dartnell, New Scientist, September 20, 2010; and Hubert et al, 2010).

[Response: Many of the IPCC AR4 runs produce ice free (in the summer) conditions by 2100 (depending on the scenarios) so there is nothing intrinsic to the GCMs that do not allow this.

It is based on the misconception that the factor preferring isotopes is at the «precipitation / freeze» end of the process when it is actually at the evaporation end, i.e. not dependent on local conditions on the ice sheet.

As the map above — adapted from a 2016 Journal of Climate paper — demonstrates, this trend is projected to continue, threatening many of the winter activities that rely on cold conditions, including skiing, snowmobiling, ice fishing, and outdoor ice hockey.

But if they are, they could provide a much easier way of determining just what conditions are like in the Europan ocean below the ice cover, since they would likely originate from that ocean, like they do on Enceladus.

Further the strength of the feedbacks depend on the initial conditions (like ice age — interglacial).