Sentences with phrase «ice drifting near»
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Near its edges pack ice is composed of pieces loosely drifting on the water.
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The SRB buoy was set up on an ice floe near the North Pole, and was left to eventually drift southwards with the ice.
As I've been reporting since I camped with scientists on the drifting, chugging sea ice near the North Pole in 2003, the basic picture is of a warming system (oceans and atmosphere) in which open water eventually dominates in late summer — for better and worse, depending on your vantage point.
The plan is for the Polarstern, its crew and a team of scientific researchers to enter the forming ice near the East Siberian Sea and begin drifting from there towards the North Pole and then to the Fram Strait by following the Transpolar Drift.
A study using data from Polar drifting ice buoys showed that near surface air temperatures over the pack ice are relatively homogenous, with a CLS (correlation length scale) of 900-1000 km, see (Rigor 2000).
Figure 4 shows the present (13 August 2008) surface condition as evidenced by the web camera image from the NPEO Automated Drifting Station, the location of the ice - mass - balance buoy installation nearest Fram Strait.
Once trapped, it drifted in ice pack before finally sinking near Kolyuchin Island (in the Chukchi Sea) on 13 February 1934.