Sentences with phrase «ice cycle on»

ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has provided evidence for a daily water - ice cycle on and near the surface of comets.

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Indian societies like that of the Eskimos or the nomadic tropical tribes enacted great life - cycle rituals wherein the elderly would be set adrift on ice floes or would fail to ford the swift river with the rest of the tribe during a migration back to the mountains.

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I added a few before mentioned vases on the food tables and laid throughout randomly some ice cycle lights.

Nie and Garzione suggest that the fluctuating Antarctic ice sheet in the late Miocene, at a time when there was minimal ice in the Northern Hemisphere, exerted the dominant control on the 100,000 year cycles observed in the Qaidam Basin record.

If so, the Southern Hemisphere ice sheets may once again exert dominant influence on climate cycles.

This week, researchers revealed that the ancient cycles of ice also left their mark on the sea floor, thousands of meters below the ocean surface.

«It's hard to discern an ice sheet's cycles on land because it destroys the evidence,» she says, «but it dumps that evidence in the oceans, archived in layers on the bottom.»

Human effects on the climate notwithstanding, the cycle will continue to turn, the hothouse period will some day come to an end — and the ice sheets will descend again.

The ice floating on top of the Arctic Ocean and surrounding seas shrinks in a seasonal cycle from mid-March until mid-September.

Building on this study, the team intend to produce a new reconstruction of global ice volume across the last glacial cycle, which will help to validate their proposition that certain boundaries can define windows of instability within the climate system.

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 study marks the first time that human influence on the climate has been demonstrated in the water cycle, and outside the bounds of typical physical responses such as warming deep ocean and sea surface temperatures or diminishing sea ice and snow cover extent.

Since so much of the ice sheet is grounded underwater, rising sea levels may have the effect of lifting the sheets, allowing more - and increasingly warmer - water underneath it, leading to further bottom melting, more ice shelf disintegration, accelerated glacial flow, and further sea level rise, and so on and on, another vicious cycle.

By matching these isotope ratios to the astronomical cycle — Earth's orbit oscillates between an elliptical and circular path on a roughly 400,000 - year cycle — the researchers found that patterns of glaciation and ice retreat followed the eccentricity of our planet's orbitthey report in the December 22 Science.

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).

The extent of Arctic sea ice reached the maximum area of its seasonal cycle on March 7th coming in at 14.42 million km2.

DOE's Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) project is focused on how global water cycles, water resources, biogeochemical cycles, and rapidly changing ice or snow interact with climate systems and climate change.

«The impact of astronomical cycles on climate can be quite large,» explains Meyers, noting as an example the pacing of the Earth's ice ages, which have been reliably matched to periodic changes in the shape of Earth's orbit, and the tilt of our planet on its axis.

Through combining results across multiple disciplines, we will learn new information about our planet's past and gain knowledge on subglacial processes such as carbon cycling and water - ice dynamics.

The Past and Future Ocean Circulation from a Contemporary Perspective, in AGU Monograph, 173, A. Schmittner, J. Chiang and S. Hemming, Eds., 53 - 74, (pdf)» Wunsch's publications page is great food - for - thought, I particularly enjoyed his papers on Ice Age changes and the Milankovitch cycles.

Since then, the world has seen cycles of glaciation with ice sheets advancing and retreating on 40,000 - and 100,000 - year time scales called glacials (glacial advance) and interglacials (glacial retreat).

Moreover, random interactions within the sun's magnetic field can flip the fluctuations from one cycle length to the other, matching the paleo - temperature record for ice ages on Earth for over the past 5.3 million years, when ice ages occurred occurred roughly every 41,000 years until about a million years ago when they switched to a roughly 100,000 - year cycle.

I knew I had to put on some body fat to get back my cycle, but for someone who was so obsessed about maintaining a lean physique, it wasn't as straight forward as just stuffing my face with donuts and ice cream.

Hire bikes and have a cycle, ending off the date with an ice - cream on the beach.

That Harding was able to achieve such amazing feats on ice — including the triple axel, which most skaters avoided because of its difficulty — is testament to her inner drive to rise from a life of poverty, survive a cycle of abuse, overcome class bias, endure countless hours of practice, and rely on her talent to achieve a better life.

Run through of data handling cycle including types of data, bar charts, pie charts, averages and drawing conclusions on a hypothesis - based on ice cream van sales.

This is meant to avoid the evaporator from icing up due to no airflow (even the TEV has, apparently, limited control capability on the refrigerant flow at very low load), and in turn excessive compressor cycling (or compressor damage).

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After a ten - year hiatus he returned to writing novels full - time, notably on his lengthy cycle A Song of Ice and Fire, which includes the books A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons.

Dumb Luck Capital... 2) Coal, 3) Waited «for the Ag cycle to turn,»... 6) Use «mid-cycle earnings» on melting ice cubes

- Scottish Football at both our Edinburgh Teams home Stadiums Other than the big events, on daily basis there are many possibilities and activities to undertake such as abundant cycle paths, tennis courts in the big green Meadows, ski slope open throughout the year, Murrayfield ice rink, many dance venues including latin - american as well as traditional Ceilidh (e.g. famous Ghillie Dhu right across the street), and even sports bars like Ryan's 50 meters away.

walking, kayaking, biking, swimming, rafting, horseback riding, ballooning, skydiving, golf, fishing (European trophy trout river at the bottom of the village on the Bled walking route, cycle tracks in both directions, canyoning, climbing, snow shoeing, ice climbing, skiing, (6 nice skiing areas within 30/40 minutes), Lang lauf course + cross country skiing just at the top of the village, Austrian and Italian resorts not far away.

This is the reason that the water on the very bottom of the ocean originates around the Antarctic as the result of the yearly sea - ice cycle.

As astronomical cycles they are predictable into the future and will cause another ice age probably in around 50,000 years (that depends on where the threshold for glaciation is, and what future CO2 levels will be at that time), but there is no way the Milankovich cycles could explain the current global warming.

Do you have any comment on the paper by Lassen and Thejll of the Danish Meteorological Institute from observations between Arctic sea ice index and solar cycle length?

... Polar amplification explains in part why Greenland Ice Sheet and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appear to be highly sensitive to relatively small increases in CO2 concentration and global mean temperature... Polar amplification occurs if the magnitude of zonally averaged surface temperature change at high latitudes exceeds the globally averaged temperature change, in response to climate forcings and on time scales greater than the annual cycle.

# 29 — the phenomenon of greenhouse gases retaining heat at the surface of the earth operates on decadal scales, and the orbital variations (Milankovitch cycles) which cause the waxing and waning of the ice ages operate on millennial scales, and both are fundamental physical processes, and are not elucidated by computer models.

Furiously destructive Hurricanes are not the only indicator of AGW, in context of those Hurricanes cycles in the past, or rather in contrast with past high intensity hurricane seasons, we now experience all time high temperatures raging everywhere in the world, 1 meter a day rainfalls, severe droughts on 4 distinct continents, many glaciers going or gone everywhere, and a good chunk of the Arctic Ocean permanent ice melted.

Polar amplication is of global concern due to the potential effects of future warming on ice sheet stability and, therefore, global sea level (see Sections 5.6.1, 5.8.1 and Chapter 13) and carbon cycle feedbacks such as those linked with permafrost melting (see Chapter 6)... The magnitude of polar amplification depends on the relative strength and duration of different climate feedbacks, which determine the transient and equilibrium response to external forcings.

Volume gives us an idea on how much freshwater is stored in Arctic sea ice — an important element in the global - Arctic hydrological cycle, i.e., the cycle of distillation due to freezing, and subsequent export, and melt.

I an attempt to find these and in lack of a proper tool I played a little with excel, result found on http://virakkraft.com/GISP2.xls The first curve is the ice core data, the second a simulated curve besed on the assumption that the most siginificant cycles are 20000, 3500, 3000, 875, 437 and 150 years.

Dr. Archer has worked on the ongoing mystery of the low atmospheric CO2 concentration during glacial time 20,000 years ago, and on the fate of fossil fuel CO2 on geologic time scales in the future, and its impact on future ice age cycles, ocean methane hydrate decomposition, and coral reefs.

Aslo, regarding climate sensitivity a very key thing to remember, especially if sensitivity turns out to be on the high side, is that the «final» equilibrium temperature (Alexi's concerns about there being such a thing aside) calculated from climate sensitivity does not take into account carbon cycle feedbacks OR ice sheet changes.

This is the normal life cycle for a meltwater pond that forms from snow and ice, and eventually drains through cracks or hole through the ice it has pooled on.

And guaranties that the cited above G8 deal is dead on arrival... Not that the deal will change anything, except for UK government which has been fantastic on Carbon reductions, The Senator and acolytes would have trouble explaining the disappearing Arctic Ocean ice, not that someone is capable of «Hoaxing» vanishing multi year ice, and even further, failing to match their statements with Polar ice disappearing in tandem with world wide temperatures being flat, not rising for ten years now, as they like to claim, how to explain the disappearing ice then??? Those trying to explain a long term cycle, beware!

So, I tend to believe the new results, they confirm what has been shown by several other studies — human - caused CO2 has a large enough effect lasting long enough that it will greatly affect the natural ice - age cycling — but I'll listen to Peter, Andre and the others with great interest, and I don't think this is the last word on exactly what CO2 level is needed for exactly what orbital configuration for ice - age initiation.

Aerosols exert a forcing on the hydrological cycle by modifying cloud condensation nuclei, ice nuclei, precipitation efficiency, and the ratio between solar direct and diffuse radiation received.

To estimate the ESS from these cycles you'd need to know what the separate impacts the CO2 and the orbital forcing had on the ice sheets, and that is not possible just from these data.

ScienceDaily (Oct. 3, 2008)-- Arctic sea ice extent during the 2008 melt season dropped to the second - lowest level since satellite measurements began in 1979, reaching the lowest point in its annual cycle of melt and growth on Sept. 14, according to researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center.&raqice extent during the 2008 melt season dropped to the second - lowest level since satellite measurements began in 1979, reaching the lowest point in its annual cycle of melt and growth on Sept. 14, according to researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center.&raqIce Data Center.»