Sentences with phrase «ice drifts more»

«The thinner ice drifts more quickly and can break up into smaller pieces.

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We've been sleeping more than usual (I actually went to bed with Matthew at 7 pm earlier this week, waking only long enough to scarf down a tiny bowl of pasta for dinner before drifting off to la - la - land again), eating our collective weight in local ice cream, and touring small, nearby towns in the afternoons before heading back to the cottage for happy hour snack time.

«We expressed a need for something that could provide more immediate and local observation that could be launched easily and cover enough distance to conduct reconnaissance on potential routes through drifting sea ice,» says Cyrus Unvala, a lieutenant, junior grade, who served as public affairs officer onboard the Polar Star.

Further melting could cause more multiyear ice from the Arctic Ocean to drift into the NWP, making it less, not more passable.

The rubble along the shoreline indicates that the ice mountains have drifted, moving across the more malleable nitrogen surface.

As a bonus I got a chance to test out a new all - season tire that is supposed to be nearly as good as winter rubber in the snow, I was able to test a more performance - oriented SUV winter tire, and I even learned how to drift a BMW on ice.

Installed in conjunction with the more traditional gallery exhibition, 33 °, the murals range from the humorous, an image of tourists wandering aimlessly across an aqua blue expanse, to a sobering, a black fissure opening stark and deep in what we are to assume is an arctic ice sheet, to the iconic, a lonely polar bear drifting on a small iceberg.

When the extent of the pack of sea ice drifting around the North Pole hit a remarkable low in 2007 (animation below), the resulting, and persistent, front - page thought was that the system was in a «death spiral» far more dramatic than any climate model had foreseen.

they wrote.49 In addition to smaller areas and briefer periods of ice cover, they expect thinner ice, smaller floe sizes, more open water, more ice drift and changes in the nature of snow cover.

In an effort to better understand the drastic ice melt happening in the Arctic, Germany is sending a boat to drift with the ice for more than a year as part of the International Arctic Drift Expedidrift with the ice for more than a year as part of the International Arctic Drift ExpediDrift Expedition.

What's more, a recent study in the Journal of Geophysical Letters found that IPCC models had low - balled the rate at which melted ice drifts off, further accelerating the collapse.

Given that calving Patagonia glaciers were far more sensitive to climate fluctuations than western Antarctica, and given the likelihood that paleo sea - ice extent around Antarctica deflected iceberg drift from present pathways, it would be helpful to know how they confirmed the respective continental sources of any dated sediments.

More information on the sea ice drift product OSI - 405 is found here.

Field observations and a drifting buoy tracking through the region also reveal that widespread refreezing of surface ice meltwater as it comes into contact with colder, more saline seawater, has added ice layers to the bottom of floes, slowing down thinning and melt of the ice cover.

Thousands of years ago, during the height of the ancient Greek and Roman empires, lead emissions from sources such as the mining and smelting of lead - silver ores in Europe drifted with the winds over the ocean to Greenland — a distance of more than 2800 miles (4600 km)- and settled onto the ice.

Why is sea ice drifting so much more rapidly today than before?

Here, considerable value can be derived from ship - based observations, aerial overflights, and drifting (mass - balance) buoys that provide a more accurate picture of the distribution of different ice types.

- To investigate how a more realistic representation of sea ice drift affects the simulation of freshwater mass distribution in the Arctic Ocean.

Secondary objectives: Four secondary objectives have been defined: - To assess the effect of a more accurate simulation of sea ice drift and deformation on the Arctic sea ice mass balance and distribution properties of sea ice age.

Continents drifted and changed ocean currents and routed more and more warm tropical water into Polar Regions and that thawed more and more of the Polar Oceans to promote more and more snowfall and that did support more and more ice on land.

As the Bond stacked series is the average of different petrological tracers that reflect the same parameter, i.e., change in drift ice, it is considered to be more reliable than the separate measurements.

Popular belief has it that the melting of drifting icebergs and floating ice shelves has no effect on the height of the surrounding sea level just like melting... Read more

At the same time, the ice in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas is seeing less multiyear ice drifting in from the Canadian Arctic, with more first - year ice prevalent in 2011 than in past years.