Sentences with phrase «ice covered area»

At its minimum on September 16, the ice covered an area about the size of India; that is 18 percent smaller than the previous record low, set in 2007.

AWI researchers observed a considerable decrease in the thickness of the sea ice as early as the late summer of 2015, even though the overall ice covered area of the September minimum ultimately exceeded the record low of 2012 by approximately one million square kilometres.

Further inland, the glaciers widen into a two - mile - thick reserve of ice covering an area the size of Texas.

Based on the recent work done in Antarctica it would seem that ice covered areas are also biologically rich.

For example, although the sample size has been very small, studies of radio - collared seals in the Bering and Chukchi Seas observed those seals rarely hauled out at all, on land or sea ice, even when occupying ice covered areas.

[Jim Dukelow reminded me a few notable caveates: the satellites provide no data at all above 80 - 85 N and S, and is unerliable for high altitudes and for snow / ice covered areas (Northern Greenland, Central Antarctica, and the Tibetan plateau).

Not exact matches

Schoep's Ice Cream gradually has expanded and, in addition to 17 direct store delivery trucks covering the Midwest area, it now ships products to 45 states in the continental United States as well as Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.

-- During our Old Town Walks, the time constraints required to cover the area does not permit buying hamburgers, ice cream, sodas or shopping in the antique and gift stores.

TIP: Try applying an ice pack (with a soft covering) to the affected area several times a day or soak your bottom for 10 to 15 minutes in a warm and relaxing bath to decrease swelling and discomfort.

New York Ice Cream, staffed by drivers who used to cover Midtown Manhattan for Mister Softee, has had the area locked down for at least a year, Mister Softee said.

Snow melt and rain will cause many rivers and streams to rise, potentially breaking ice layers causing ice jams and localized flooding with water covered roads, especially in low lying areas and urban and poor drainage areas.

In spite of the icy temperatures in the region, satellite images depict a large ice - free area in the middle of the ice cover.

The area, marked NEGIS, covers about 16 percent of the island's thick ice sheet.

(By September, the Arctic area covered by sea ice was the third - lowest recorded since 1979 — the other record years were 2007 and 2008.)

Because most of Antarctica is covered by ice and snow, scientists hunting for fossils are limited to rocky outcrops, generally in mountainous areas.

But we also thought that this did not apply to ocean areas covered by ice, because the ice was considered impenetrable.

While climate models also simulate the observed linear relationship between sea ice area and CO2 emissions, they usually have a much lower sensitivity of the ice cover than has been observed.

Rising temperatures have reduced the area's sea ice cover, which serves as an important habitat not just for Adelie penguins but also for krill.

The island was surrounded by a plain of glacial ice covering 1,500 square kilometers — 25 times the area of Manhattan.

This slab, called the Ross Ice Shelf, covers an area equal to that of France.

White areas covered with snow and ice reflect sunlight; the effect is called albedo.

The new Arctic Now product developed by the Finnish Meteorological Institute shows with one picture the extent of the area in the Northern Hemisphere currently covered by ice and snow.

The mass media (to the limited extent they covered the issue) were confused, sometimes predicting a balmy globe with coastal areas flooded as the ice caps melted, sometimes warning of the prospect of a catastrophic new ice age.

the south - bound expedition had cleared that vast plain of floating ice which flows down from the great mountains of the interior and covers the southern part of Ross Sea throughout an area above 20,000 square miles with an ice sheet approximately 800 feet in thickness, and had begun to climb the heights which form the mountainous embayment at the head of Ross Sea.

Sugden's team found evidence that the moraines had been forming for at least 200,000 years, suggesting that ice has covered the area for at least that long (Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, DOI: 10.1016 / j.palaeo.2011.01.027), and therefore survived the last interglacial 125,000 years ago.

These data were used to quantify changes in the ice cover's composition, revealing a substantial reduction of about 14 percent in the area of multiyear ice in winter during the period from 1978 to 1998.

Ice - covered sea areas in the Arctic Ocean during summer have nearly halved since the 1970s and 1980s, raising alarm that the ocean is shifting from a multiyear to a seasonal ice zoIce - covered sea areas in the Arctic Ocean during summer have nearly halved since the 1970s and 1980s, raising alarm that the ocean is shifting from a multiyear to a seasonal ice zoice zone.

Total sea ice cover on the Arctic Ocean peaked on March 7, satellite observations show, reaching a total area of 14.42 million square kilometers.

The area covered by all the green leaves on Earth is equal to, on average, 32 percent of Earth's total surface area — oceans, lands and permanent ice sheets combined.

The area covered by sea ice hovered near its historic low this summer, and is expected to be largely gone by mid-century (ClimateWire, Dec. 17, 2010).

Over the past few years, the ice on the Arctic Ocean in late summer — covers less area than it did 30 years ago; declined but then recovered to about the same area it had 30 years ago; or covers more area than it did 30 years ago.

They excluded cities, forests, and ice - covered areas, which would all be hard to harvest.

When the analysis was confined to the area covered by ice, an equivalent decline in albedo was found during June - August.

At the Dome A site in East Antarctica — roughly the size of the state of California — the base layer of refrozen ice accounted for up to half the total thickness of the ice sheet, and 24 percent of the area covered by ice.

The area of the Arctic Ocean covered by sea ice usually hits its winter peak in early to mid-March, as the freeze season ends with the re-emergence of the sun above the horizon.

The Greenland Ice Sheet covers an area roughly the size of Mexico and measures up to 3 km thick in some places.

Mouginot et al. report that between 2002 and 2014, the area covered by the glacier's ice shelf shrank by 95 %; since 1999, the glacier's flow rate has nearly doubled; and its acceleration increased threefold in the fall of 2012.

Earlier this month — on 17 March — the extent of Arctic sea ice peaked at nearly 15 million square kilometers, covering an area roughly twice the size of Australia.

And, as Walt Meier of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center noted here, Antarctic sea ice already covers a huge area — it doesn't take much growth for it to set a new record.

Ms Lee said Antarctic ice - free areas cover less than one per cent of the continent, ranging from the size of a football pitch to the size of a small Pacific Island.

The ice coverage on the Arctic Ocean shriveled last September to 1.32 million square miles, the smallest expanse ever recorded and less than half the area covered by sea ice three decades ago.

Both the area of water covered by sea ice and the thickness of the ice have been decreasing in recent years, and thinner ice is blown farther and faster by the wind.

Previous research estimated that it covered much of western Canada as late as 12,500 years ago, but new data shows that large areas in the region were ice - free as early as 1,500 years earlier.

Through November the area of ice - covered ocean in the region reached a record low in seven of 11 months — an unprecedented stretch.

After that heyday, the bears must have been split up into small, isolated populations — genetic bottlenecks — perhaps as they sought refuge on islands and other areas not covered by advancing glaciers during the most recent ice age.

Zachariae is the largest ice stream in a drainage basin that covers 16 percent of the Greenland ice sheet — an area twice as large as the one drained by Jakobshavn.

The Cordilleran Ice Sheet (CIS) once covered an area comparable to that of Greenland.

Grey areas are barren land or ice covered.

The area of the Arctic Ocean covered by sea ice in September, when the annual minimum occurs, was the sixth lowest extent in the satellite record, going back to 1979.

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].