Sentences with phrase «ice conditions where»

In snow - ice conditions where the car may be near the limits of control, more complex calculations determine the driver's intended path.

Not exact matches

«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.

«These findings add to mounting evidence suggesting that there are sweet spots or «windows of opportunity» within climate space where so - called boundary conditions, such as the level of atmospheric CO2 or the size of continental ice sheets, make abrupt change more likely to occur.

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.

There are no viable methods of cleaning up oil from ice and, in addition to weather conditions, much of the area where drilling would take place is incredibly remote, said Rear Adm. Jonathan White, the former chief oceanographer of the Navy and head of its climate change task force.

Professor Poinar continues, «Mammoths were much better at adapting to new habitats than we first thought — we suspect that subgroups of mammoths evolved to deal with local conditions, but maintained genetic continuity by encountering and potentially interbreeding with each other where their two different habitats met, such as at the edge of glaciers and ice sheets.»

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.

Venus with its hellish conditions or Europa with it's ice could have us reconsidering where life could form.

The analyses of two ice cores from a southern tropical ice cap provide a record of climatic conditions over 1000 years for a region where other proxy records are nearly absent.

But unless you're in extreme conditions where you must shuttle blood to your brain and vital organs to survive, your body will avoid tissue death by not allowing the body part you're icing to cool excessively.

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This is an expedition where the elements rule, and the weather, wind, and ice conditions will determine our final schedule.

Azam has developed his painting in a series of projects that reflect his interest in extreme working conditions and also painting as a performance, from Zero Gravity, Star City, Moscow, 2008, to the freezing ice deserts of Antarctica, 2010, where he completed thirteen large paintings.

As a letter written by a group of scientists from the Scott Polar Research Institute says, «Recent satellite images of Greenland make it clear that there are in fact still numerous glaciers and permanent ice cover where the new Times Atlas shows ice - free conditions and the emergence of new lands».

This phenomenon is attributed to self - preservation, a metastable condition where a coating of ice encapsulates the gas hydrate, thus preserving the internal clathrate structure.

Simultaneously, the same measurements were taken colleagues near Barrow, Alaska, where the conditions are first - year sea ice with thin snow cover.

While there are perhaps a few places where moving is not really an option over the short term, over the long term (more than one season) polar bears are free to shift to another locale if ice conditions change (either too much ice or too little).

The CBC report included his tweet from 10 April, where he suggested «failed» Newfoundland ice conditions were the cause of multiple bears onshore in Newfoundland this year.

The analyses of two ice cores from a southern tropical ice cap provide a record of climatic conditions over 1000 years for a region where other proxy records are nearly absent.

But that crunching is done all the time; for instance, the US Navy does it to help its captains know where they may encounter dangerous ice conditions.

Around Svalbard, where ice conditions vary widely from year to year and from locality to locality, bears in low - ice areas have turned to eggs, birds, whales, walruses and even reindeer.

Regional models are better able to define the boundaries of snow, sleet, freezing rain, and rain; determine more precisely where aircraft may encounter icing conditions or where transport on roads may be unwise.

We see July as a critical month where favorable atmospheric and oceanic conditions could rapidly erode the preconditioned Arctic sea ice cover.

The energy system is both a source of emissions that lead to global warming and it can also be directly affected by climate change: through changes in our energy consumption patterns, potential shutdowns of offshore oil and gas production, changing ice and snow conditions in the oil production regions of Alaska, changing sea ice conditions in the Arctic Ocean and the implications for shipping routes, and impacts of sea - level rise on coasts, where so much of our energy facility infrastructure is located.

Then you could have Bart note that Antarctic Ice cores show only a fraction of the climate change that Greenland Ice cores show and if he his more concerned with Antarctic conditions, perhaps he should consider relocating there, where his logic might make sense.

However, past studies of such Arctic mixed - phase clouds have been unable to explain the measured abundance of ice crystals larger than 100 micrometers in maximum dimension (the size range where measurements are available), given observed environmental conditions and the measured concentrations of ice nuclei that could be entrained into the observed shallow cloud layers from aloft.

This link is reflected in the persistence of the Arctic amplification, where fast feedbacks are largely controlled by sea - ice conditions.

Humm, this might be a return to ice age conditions... now where did I put my Newsweek!!

When comparing the maps to recent satellite images Christofferson and his team found «numerous glaciers and permanent ice cover where the new Times Atlas shows ice - free conditions and the emergence of new lands.»

In a nation where the driving conditions are already challenging for a good portion of the year on account of snow and ice, we certainly do not want to be in a situation where we take one step forward but two steps back.

We rely on them to get us where we're going even under the worst conditions like ice, snow and heavy rain.

Now, a defendant can be held liable even where the snow or ice was in its natural condition (meaning the way it fell or froze) if his conduct was unreasonable.

Take photos of exactly where your fall occurred and document the conditions of the property that contributed to the accident (in this example, the ice on the stairs).

Rather, a municipality will only be held liable for failing to clear the road of snow or ice where it had «actual or constructive knowledge that road conditions created an unreasonable risk of harm to users of the highway».9

For instance, Chapter II of the State Sanitary Code, codified at 105 C.M.R. 410.452 provides: «The owner shall maintain all means of egress at all times in a safe, operable condition and shall keep all exterior stairways, fire escapes, egress balconies and bridges free of snow and ice, provided however, in those instances where a dwelling has an independent means of egress, not shared with other occupants, and a written agreement so states, the occupant is responsible for maintaining free of snow and ice, the means of egress under his or her exclusive control.»