Sentences with phrase «ice cover remains»

While ice thickness is difficult to measure using satellites, a variety of data sources and estimates indicate that the Arctic ice cover remains thin.

Less than 10 percent of the original ice cover remains atop Mount Kenya.

Following the record warm Arctic winter, the lowest sea ice extent at the seasonal maximum in the satellite era, and the lowest ice extent in the months of May and June; the current sea ice cover remains below normal (see Figures 6a and 6b).

However, this year's ice cover remains far below the 1981 - 2010 average, indicating an ongoing, long - term decline of ice because of warming temperatures, according to scientists.

Not exact matches

(The right consistency to cover or «flood» sugar cookies is when you lift the beater, the ribbon of icing that falls back into the bowl remains on the surface for a few seconds before disappearing.

To cover or «flood» the entire surface of the cookie with icing, the proper consistency is when you lift the beater, the ribbon of icing that falls back into the bowl remains on the surface of the icing for a few seconds before disappearing.

To cover the entire surface of the cookie with icing, the proper consistency is when you lift the beater, the ribbon of icing that falls back into the bowl remains on the surface of the icing for a few seconds before disappearing.

Over the past forty years, the ice cover in summer has shrunk by more than half, with climate model simulations predicting that the remaining half might be gone by mid-century unless greenhouse gas emissions are reduced rapidly.

After a week of rumbling, Iceland's Bárðarbunga volcano began erupting yesterday, say scientists at the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) in Reykjavik — although the eruption remained entirely under the thick ice covering the volcano.

Over 25 years, the proportion of the ocean covered by ice at least four years old has dwindled from 26 % to 7 %, while the remaining ice is mainly thin, the product of one winter.

It is difficult to obtain fossil data from the 10 % of Earth's terrestrial surface that is covered by thick glaciers and ice sheets, and hence, knowledge of the paleoenvironments of these regions has remained limited.

Joseph Kirschvink of the California Institute of Technology remains convinced that ice covered tropical continents in the late Precambrian.

In the autumn adult krill migrate from offshore and continental shelf areas to inshore habitats where they remain through winter under the protective cover of sea ice [4].

Then layer the faux ice - cream on half of the squares and cover the cream filling with the remaining square tops.

Cover the ice cream with the remaining frosted flake mixture.

The upside is that the car is well - suited to crappy, ice - covered roads, even if the adaptable suspension remains relatively harsh even in «comfort» model.

John, who works at a major US museum, will remain anonymous to protect him from the jealous rage this picture will incite across the snow - and ice - covered East Coast.

As expected, the Arctic Ocean remains ice - free for several months, and significant sea - ice cover does not develop before November.

He notes that the sat photos show that cloud cover remains low and that the ice is very mobile at a time when the pack should be most firm (not really a surprise since ocean temps are much more important than air temps, and apparently it's the ocean temps that have been the largest factor in the recent sharp sea ice reduction).

«Only five large ice shelves remain in Arctic Canada, covering less than a tenth of the area than they did a century ago.»

East Antarctic ice sheet: Abrupt (geologic, but still shortish), absolutely catastrophic (even over centuries; 70 meters covers an awful lot of arable land and infrastructure, and there's no guarantee that the remaining dry land will be an Eden).

If this ice remains in the Arctic through the winter, it will thicken, which gives some hope of stabilizing the ice cover over the next few years.

Unlike the formerly - glaciated regions of the Northern Hemisphere, 98 % of Antarctic bedrock remains covered by ice and the ice sheet edge is fringed by extensive ice shelves; this hampers the collection of data on ice history and introduces substantial uncertainty in reconstructions.

Given the evidence and remaining uncertainties, there is very high confidence in this key message, except high confidence for lake levels changing, and high confidence that declines in ice cover will continue to lengthen the commercial navigation season.

The range of ocean remaining frozen over the northern polar region reached its minimum extent for 2009 on September 12, when it covered 1.97 million square miles (5.1 million square km), and now appears to be growing again as the Arctic starts its annual cool - down, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported.

Just like Wadham's «the entire remaining summer Arctic ice cover may collapse in the near future.»

The only comprehensive study of the Antarctic Ice Sheet mass was a 10 + year study based on continuous 24/365 satellite measurements over the period 1993 to 2003, covering 80 % of the AIS with estimates from other methods for the remaining 20 %, which can not be measured by satellites (coastal areas and polar regions).

These data show that in addition to the well - documented loss of perennial ice cover as a whole, the amount of oldest and thickest ice within the remaining multiyear ice pack has declined significantly.

A long - lived paradigm in polar oceanography is that arctic pelagic ecosystems, characterized by short food webs, remain in a dormant state throughout most of the winter season beneath the sea - ice cover, which can last 8 — 10 months in some regions.

The first considered that the food web remained dormant for the largest portion of the winter under the ice cover.

Challenges also remain for altimeter measurements poleward of the 66 ° turning latitude of the reference missions and in regions covered by sea ice.»

Because the incoming and the outgoing flows, warm and cold respectively, lie side ‐ by ‐ side between Greenland and Scandinavia, an asymmetry is induced in the distribution of ice - cover on the Arctic Ocean; this is generally dense to the west of Fram Strait while, to the east of Spitzbergen, much of the Barents Sea — at similar latitudes — remains ice ‐ free even in winter due the eastward flow of warm Atlantic water.

Daniel Cressey; cross-posted from The Great Beyond The ice sheet covering east Antarctica may have been melting since 2006, according to new research, contradicting previous suggestions that it has remained stable or even grown in mass.

For example, it remains unclear how the contraction of ice cover would affect the migration routes of animals (such as whales) that follow the ice front.

In 1974 a large polinya (about the size of the UK) was detected near the Weddell Sea, a vast bay between 60 - 40 W which normally remains largely ice - covered year - round.

In this case, the Earth becomes largely covered with ice, but open water remains near the equator.

But this land area within the 81 north «cap» (like that of central Ellesmere Island), remains ice covered and does not change the analysis by more than 2 %.

«This means an inevitable death for the ice cover, because the summer retreat is now accelerated by the fact that the huge areas of open water already generated allow storms to generate big waves which break up the remaining ice and accelerate its melt,» Wadhams said.

For instance, over a period of time, if I observe, perhaps, that temperatures are falling, ice cover is increasing over the poles and / or that sea levels either remain static or drop.

To date, the Northwest Passage has been predicted to remain closed even during reduced ice cover by multi-year ice pack — sea ice that survives one or more summers.

«Over the past forty years, the ice cover in summer has shrunk by more than half, with climate model simulations predicting that the remaining half might be gone by mid-century unless greenhouse gas emissions are reduced rapidly.»

With such a small habitat remaining — which WWF estimates will cover less than 500,000 square miles — the few remaining polar bears in the Last Ice Area will be in close competition with each other for hunting grounds.

Updated information on ice extent (Figure 3) shows that ice cover in July remained below the climatological extent with the exception of the southern Greenland Sea.

Paul Bierman, a geomorphologist and geochemist at the University of Vermont, US, and colleagues say their finding can not confirm whether a remnant of ice covered only the eastern side of the island, or whether the entire island remained sheathed in ice.

Use the remaining icing to cover the sides of the cake.