Sentences with phrase «ice edge shown»

The 40 % concentration ice edge shown in Figure 1 has retreated to the edge of the band of the multi-year ice in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.

Data from buoys installed by the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) show that surface melt at buoys located in the vicinity of the ice edge show melt consistent with previous years (Figure 7).

Not exact matches

RETREATING ICE Jakobshavn Glacier in western Greenland (its front edge, where ice is calving into the ocean, shown here in 2012) is one of the world's fastest - shrinking glaciers.

Data reported by NASA's New Horizons New Horizons mission to the Pluto system shows unusual terrain in this region, which features a large deposit of nitrogen ice with a pattern of polygons that are thickest at their centers and dip at their edges.

This photo has a resolution of about 80 meters per pixel, crisp enough to show the jagged edges of ice mountains that rise above a plain of frozen nitrogen.

Schematic cartoon of a glacier flowing into an ice shelf, showing the grounding line and calving at the ice cliff at the edge of the ice shelf.

The average ice edge is shown in black.

But while some exercisers swear by ice baths, claiming it keeps them from being overly sore and gives them a competitive edge over other athletes, some recent studies on cold exposure after a workout show that ice baths might not actually do much to aid in recovery.

From lingerie made of sealskin to temporary ice paintings captured on film, the show provides a glimpse at the teeming natural and cultural ecosystem found at Floe Edge, where human, ocean, animal and art all support and challenge each other.

UPDATE 10:15 p.m.: Other measurements show that Greenland is still clearly losing more ice through melting around the edges than it is gaining through the accumulation of snow in the interior.

In a cutting - edge survey of satellite data published Feb. 13 in the journal Cryosphere, researchers from NASA and other institutions shows that ice loss from the critical region of Antarctica is happening at an increasingly fast pace.

showing the ice edge much closer to the northern end of Novaya Zemlya and ice completely surrounding Severnaya Zemlya.

Interestingly, the chart for Aug 1922 shows a summer ice edge that is slightly farther north than in years previous, but again, nothing like what we are seeing today.

Many of them show obvious problems in the retrieval (i.e. huge jumps at the land / ocean or ocean / ice edge) and I have yet to see what the weighting kernel is or any ground truthing.

Years ago, I pushed the idea of developing a reality - TV show, «Extremities,» on science at the edge of what's possible, sort of Mythbusters with a rotating cast that'd include biologists climbing cliffs in Greenland to study nesting falcons, the team I joined on the sea ice near the North Pole and — certainly — scientists driving around Oswego, N.Y., with portable Doppler radars to plumb the innards of storms that produce that region's astounding lake - effect snow, one result of which is depicted in this photo (NOAA):

I haven't read the papers and don't know what is happening with salinity in the rest of the Atlantic, but looking at your map it occurred to me that if there was increased freshwater in the Northern Ocean due to ice melting and increase salinity in the tropical Atlantic due to increased evaporation, couldn't a mixing effect at the southern edge of the Northern ocean as tropical water is circulated north show similar results?

One reason, as other Antarctic research has shown, is that the speed of loss of Antarctic ice is to a large extent not a function of air temperature in any case, but of ocean heat intruding beneath the vast shelves of floating ice around the edges.

From your link: «In some instances, bright red spots or streaks along the edge of the continent show where icebergs calved or ice shelves disintegrated, meaning the satellite began seeing warmer ocean water where there had previously been ice.»

The Greenland Ice Sheet is very similar to the South Pole and the research shows that it too is melting at an accelerated pace around the edges.

(Image Caption: This view of the seaward edge of Antarctica's floating Ross Ice Shelf shows a region where the ice is cracking and may produce an icebeIce Shelf shows a region where the ice is cracking and may produce an icebeice is cracking and may produce an iceberg.

Collecting data from NASA's satellite Gravity and Recovery Climate Experiment, known as GRACE, and GPS measurements of the bedrock on the edges of the ice sheet, the Denmark Technical Institute's National Space Institute in Copenhagen was able to show that crustal uplift due to ice loss has gone up by 1.5 inches between October 2005 and August 2009 along the northwest coast, a change that study co-author John Wahr calls «very dramatic».

Prediction is based on evaluation of ice age that shows current ice extent has retreated back to the multiyear ice edge in the eastern Arctic and in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas.

In contrast, the updated ensemble forecast from a coupled ice - ocean model submitted by Zhang (Figure 3) still shows the September ice edge further north than in 2009.

The current sea ice extent in the Greenland Sea (Figure 4) differs only a little from the previous years and as Gerland et al. point out, different mean positions of the ice edge over one to three decades do not show substantial differences.

Comparing the latest ice age data from Maslanik and Fowler (see Maslanik contribution) for 21 June 2010 (Figure 6) to current (20 July) ice extent data shows that the ice edge has retreated back to the boundary between first - year and multi-year ice pack in the eastern Arctic and in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas.

Note that the datasets show different quantities; in the sea ice zone the GISTEMP, M10 and CHAPMAN data represent air temperature (though CHAPMAN air temperatures are inferred from SST input data); north of the sea ice edge the M10 and CHAPMAN data represent air temperature while GISTEMP represents SST; MSU represents tropospheric - average temperatures everywhere.

it shows current ice growing at the edge of the ice pack with surface temperatures between -10 to -15 C. -11 C looks not so bad.

2012 Sea ice minimum; purple lines show normal (median) ice edge position.

Updated information about ice extent in this region indicates substantial ice retreat in the eastern Barents and the Kara Seas, where ice is now well below climatological extent (Figure 5), with little change in the Greenland Sea and Fram Strait region, where the ice edge is within the decadal mean range except for the southernmost stretches shown in Figure 5.

The maps above show a spatial view of the sea ice concentrations for the whole of the Arctic, with the average ice edge for the particular month indicated by a pink line.

However, the the study also found that measurements at the ice's edge show that climate models alone can overestimate the volume of meltwater flowing to the ocean because they fail to account for water storage beneath the ice.

First up is a group of photos from Twitter user Ice Universe, which show what looks like the Galaxy S8 with an edge - to - edge display.