Sentences with phrase «ice cover under»

The sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is now nearing its winter maximum, but the effects of a February storm markedly illustrate the changes that have happened with the Arctic sea ice cover under the effects of climate change.

The second study uses a different climate model to simulate Arctic summer ice cover under a range of scenarios.

Not exact matches

While most duck shooters snuggle deeper under the blankets, the Maine seabirder gets up at 4 a.m., drives his boat through swells that wash over the decks and turn them into sheets of ice, sets his trawl line of decoys, anchors in the lee of a ledge and covers his boat with rockweed.

Marchant suspects more of these landforms are buried under ice, which covers more than 98 percent of the continent.

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.

They are motivated by the humbling realization that our knowledge of undersea life as a whole is only slightly less sketchy than our knowledge of life under those Antarctic ice shelves: Even where the water is not covered by ice, its sheer volume — not to mention the difficulty of seeing and moving through it — means that it is nearly all aqua incognita.

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].

Is it possible that because it used to be covered with ice it may be under - saturated, and thus absorb more than Antarctic ocean water?

The sound is still there though more quiet than it was and they charged me more than $ 50 for «diagnostic» which was really melting the ice then because that isn't covered under the warranty (and a wheel bearing is covered) I had to pay for the rental.

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While weight of ice and snow is a covered peril under both the HO - 4 and the HO - BT policies, motor vehicles are not covered.

In Baecker's home state of Minnesota, for instance «ice houses» — shelters used while fishing on ice — are covered as personal property, under the terms and conditions of the policy, he says.

There are also ice fishermen who huddle under home made plastic windbreaks which cover the entire body while they wait to catch tiny fry for bait.

Her latest series of works covers the big issues today — ice caps melt and Aleppo is under siege in her typical explosive painting style where everything is recognisable yet with an air of the intangible.

The British photographer manages to cover all seven continents, from polar ice under an icy - white sky to tropical waters bathed in light.

Dividing 3 meters into the volume of ice that our volcano melted, we find that it would cover an area of just under 30 billion meters square, or a little less than 30 thousand square kilometers.

The Department of Homeland Security, which manages the Coast Guard, operates under an agreement with the Department of Defense that these ships stand ready to enable the Navy and other forces to operate in ice - covered waters when necessary.

And may I add looks remarkably similar to the idealized deformation of the polar vortex under scenarios with Arctic warming, low Arctic sea ice and increased Siberian snow cover presented in my recent review paper with Jennifer Francis [of Rutgers University].

Is it possible that because it used to be covered with ice it may be under - saturated, and thus absorb more than Antarctic ocean water?

They lie at least 60 feet (20m) thick under the lake, and cover a slice of time running well into the last ice age, around 25,000 years ago.

The second stage of work will qualitatively and quantitatively examine when, where, and under what circumstances the arctic ice cover is likely to diminish or disappear in the future.

Repeated Pleistocene Epoch ice ages covered much of North America, Europe and Asia under mile - thick ice sheets that denuded continents, stunted plant growth, and dropped ocean levels 400 feet for thousands of years.

The source document, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), has been under harsh scrutiny over the past weeks for a number of blunders, including the Climategate scandal, bogus claims about Himalayan glacier melt, false assertions The Netherlands are drowning, deceptive hysteria over conditions in the Amazon, exaggerations of vanishing polar ice caps, and fraudulent cover - up of Chinese temperature data.

These methods have been significantly improved by fully coupling the hydrologic cycle among land, lake, and atmosphere.94, 95 Without accounting for that cycle of interactions, a study96 concluded that increases in precipitation would be negated by increases in winter evaporation from less ice cover and by increases in summer evaporation and evapotranspiration from warmer air temperatures, under a scenario of continued increases in global emissions (SRES A2 scenario).

The only problem with all the predictions about the level of the World Ocean rising is that, the World Ocean is refusing to rise up in support of the predictions, the other problem is that ice is frozen fresh water and frozen fresh water only covers about 5 % of this planet above sea level and frozen water under the level of the World Ocean does not count as the World Ocean will fall a small amount if that ice melts, so if the ice there is enough to get the World Ocean to rise and significant amount then it must be piled up very high, I cubic kilometer of water as ice, should it melt, would make 1000 square kilometers rise by one meter, so when you use this simple math then somewhere on the planet, above the level of the sea, then there must be over 500,000 cubic kilometers of ice, piled up and just waiting to melt, strange that no one can find that amount of ice, all these morons who talk about the rise of the World Ocean in tens of meters, this includes you Peter Garrett or Mr. 7 Meters, the ice does not exist to allow this amount of rise in the World Ocean, it is just not there.

-- Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator, taking into consideration the public health and environmental impacts of black carbon emissions, including the effects on global and regional warming, the Arctic, and other snow and ice - covered surfaces, shall propose regulations under the existing authorities of this Act to reduce emissions of black carbon or propose a finding that existing regulations promulgated pursuant to this Act adequately regulate black carbon emissions.

Including open - water phytoplankton biomarkers as well as micropaleontological data, we demonstrate (1) that a permanent sea ice cover existed during MIS 6 and (2) that during the LIG sea ice was still present in the central Arctic Ocean during the spring / summer season even under (global) boundary conditions significantly warmer than the present.

When using this biomarker proxy for sea ice reconstructions, however, one should have in mind that IP25 is absent under a permanent sea ice cover limiting light penetration and, as a consequence, sea ice algal growth (i.e., IP25 = 0).

By considering also a phytoplankton biomarker indicative for open - water primary production, these extremes can be easily separated as under a permanent sea ice cover the phytoplankton biomarker is absent but reaches maximum concentrations under open - water conditions (Fig. 3, Supplementary Fig. 1) 31, 38.

This ice may extend much further north and is susceptible to rapid retreat and melt, in particular under the influence of fall storms that further fragment the ice cover and enhance ocean to ice heat flow.

The occurrences of lunar migrations happen every winter at all sites, even under sea ice with snow cover on top.»

A new NASA / British Antarctic Survey study examines why Antarctic sea ice cover has increased under the effects of climate change over the past two decades.

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

Knowledge is particularly limited during the spawning season in winter due to the inherent difficulty of sampling fish under the ice cover (Mueller et al. 2006).

From a combination of climate models, satellite data, and paleoclimate records the scientists conclude that the West Antarctic ice sheet, Arctic ice cover, and regions providing fresh water sources and species habitat are under threat from continued global warming.

With these trends in ice cover and sea level only expected to continue and likely worsen if atmospheric carbon dioxide levels continue to rise, they could alter the stresses and forces fighting for balance in the ground under our feet — changes that are well - documented in studies of past climate change, but which are just beginning to be studied as possible consequences of the current state of global warming.

If the ice cover is reduced, we may see increased internal wave energy, mixing, and heat flux in the deep ocean because less internal wave energy would be lost in the under - ice boundary layer.

Without its ice cover, the Arctic Ocean is warming, especially under 24 hours of sunlight in summer.

Linder has a book called Science on Ice that documents four polar expeditions, covering how scientists do their work at the poles, from studying Adélie penguins to life under the pack ice in the ArctIce that documents four polar expeditions, covering how scientists do their work at the poles, from studying Adélie penguins to life under the pack ice in the Arctice in the Arctic.

It was never clear to me why such change should automatically be negative given that much of the world is covered under ice and snow there is clearly room for some warming to make more of the earth livable.

Arctic sea - ice cover will diminish rapidly under global warming, but its rate of retreat in boreal winter shows large intermodel differences across the models involved in Phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project...

In Baecker's home state of Minnesota, for instance «ice houses» — shelters used while fishing on ice — are covered as personal property, under the terms and conditions of the policy, he says.

Damage to the house and its contents caused by weight of snow or ice that creates a collapse is covered under standard homeowners insurance policies.

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Lightning, windstorms, ice, and storm damage are covered under your Detroit renters insurance.

Shoveling a roof is not reasonable maintenance, additionally the «law» places part of the «onus» on the tenant asking - why would you park under a roof covered in ice.