Sentences with phrase «ice effects in»

So once Tomb Raider is booted up on your PlayStation 4 you are treated to one of the best intros of the year that sees Lara and her companion navigating a dangerous snow covered mountain which has some of the best realistic snow and ice effects in any title.

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When trying to lose 30 pounds in 2011, I found myself thinking at length about the cookies, cake, and ice cream I was passing up, trying to rationalize whether I could have a small piece, what the effect might be, and whether I even wanted to lose weight.

Even now, the softball and glove belonging to a New York City fireman, or the ice hockey and lacrosse sticks belonging to a Cantor Fitzgerald employee, or carpentry tools belonging to an AON Corporation vice president — all displayed in a vitrine within the photo - gallery complex, along with many other personal effects — seem beside the point.

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A U.K. - based Antarctic research project called Project MIDAS monitoring the effects of climate change on an ice shelf called Larsen C announced that a vast rift in the rapidly warming pole has split entirely and created a brand new iceberg — the third largest in the world.

Although MIDAS is studying climate change's effect on Antartica, they said they weren't sure whether or not global warming was actually the culprit in this particular calving (although they said it does leave the ice shelf in a «vulnerable position.»)

A sugar detox can be interesting because sometimes all the sugar in the world doesn't effect your resolve and other times it's all you can do to not stuff your face with ice cream.

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You might associate ice cream with balmy weather, but the many spices in this recipe provide an earthy, invigorating, and overall warming effect.

Brain trauma among football players (and athletes in other sports such as soccer and ice hockey) may be less the result of violent collisions that cause concussions as the cumulative effect of repetitive head impacts (RHI).

He said the idea to pack the water, conceived some few years back through his interaction with the charity, was necessitated by the fact that the accumulated ice was melting away into the sea and going waste due to climate change effects while some people were in need of water.

But it's not clear which effect predominates in the Arctic, he explained, since different types of clouds have different effects on climate, depending on whether they're made of ice or snow, whether they're thick or thin, and how high they sit in the atmosphere.

Climate modelers do not include effects on land - based ice in these regions because they can not reduce them to equations, such as x amount of extra heat equals y amount of melting.

And Stanley Miller likely had the eutectic effect in mind when he stowed his now famous samples in a freezing chamber full of dry ice and acetone.

As a foundational study, the research team investigated superionic ice treating the ions as if they were classical particles, but in future studies they plan to take quantum effects into account to further understand the properties of the material.

While the exact sources of black carbon are often difficult to pinpoint in remote areas, the researchers used molecular analysis of the black carbon along with analysis of wind patterns to show that Greenland's ice sheet had recently seen clear effects of wildfires burning thousands of miles away in the Canadian Arctic.

Officials said the agreement furthers the objectives of the league's 2014 sustainability report, which documented and disclosed the NHL's carbon footprint, and «NHL Green» — a comprehensive sustainability initiative created by the league in 2010 to address the effects of climate change and freshwater scarcity upon ice hockey as a sport.

Despite this effect, the known ice loss at both poles suggests that embedded in the local rises is a signal of current climate change — researchers just have to tease it out.

Individual events can have dramatic effects, particularly in sports like soccer and ice hockey, where goals are rare.

Both of those effects actually add up to lower sea levels in the area right around the former ice sheet, Mitrovica said.

This effect is particularly apparent in parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), long regarded as the more vulnerable part of the continent to climate change.

In addition, Hu is investigating how turbine operators can compensate for weather effects like icing on turbine blades.

Materials scientists hope their computer model results will spark further research into the effects of carbon dioxide on fracturing in glaciers and ice sheets

In effect, this UAV survey across the ablation zone of the ice sheet perfectly bridges the gap between people on the ground studying what's under their feet in just one part of the ice sheet, and the satellite data that shows what's going on across the entire ice sheeIn effect, this UAV survey across the ablation zone of the ice sheet perfectly bridges the gap between people on the ground studying what's under their feet in just one part of the ice sheet, and the satellite data that shows what's going on across the entire ice sheein just one part of the ice sheet, and the satellite data that shows what's going on across the entire ice sheet.

Its core is a flurry of recent research proposing that such extreme weather events in the midlatitudes are linked through the atmosphere with the effects of rapid climate change in the Arctic, such as dwindling sea ice.

Since a thinner ice shell retains less heat, the tidal effects caused by Saturn on the large fractures in the ice at the south pole are no longer enough to explain the strong heat flow affecting this region.

However, the discovery in 2015 of an oscillation in Enceladus's rotation known as a libration, which is linked to tidal effects, suggests that it has a global ocean and a much thinner ice shell than predicted, with a mean thickness of around 20 km.

While Arrhenius appears to have been wrong about the temperature effect on the Antarctic, scientists today have found strong evidence for what they now call Arctic amplification in the North Pole, said Mark Serreze, the director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Hansen has studied other effects of seasonal carbon - dioxide ice on Mars, such as spider - shaped features that result from explosive release of carbon - dioxide gas trapped beneath a sheet of dry ice as the underside of the sheet thaws in spring.

While the ECS factors in such «fast» feedback effects as changes in water vapor — water itself is a greenhouse gas, and saturates warm air better than cold — they argued that slow feedbacks, such as changes in ice sheets and vegetation, should also be considered.

An advantage of artificial spin ice is that it can be designed in different topologies, and examined subsequently to see the effects of those topologies.

The findings back up a body of data suggesting that «the effects of global [warming] will be seen first, and will be most pronounced, in the arctic region,» says Mark Serreze, an arctic climatologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.

«For example, in some parts of the Arctic, such as the Chukchi Sea, polar bears appear healthy, fat and reproducing well — this may be because this area is very ecologically productive, so you can lose some ice before seeing negative effects on bears.

After Levy and colleagues noted visible effects of ground ice retreat in Garwood Valley, they began to monitor the valley, combining time - lapse photography and weather - station data at 15 - minute intervals to create a detailed view of the conditions under which the ice, a relict from the last ice age, is being lost.

For example, the thinning ice is driving melt ponds in the Arctic and promoting phytoplankton blooms under the ice; the warming is also altering population dynamics among lemmings, with, in some locations, dire effects on their predators, such as the Arctic fox.

«The study suggests that loss of sea ice not only has an effect on the environment and wildlife of the Arctic region but has far reaching consequences for people living in Europe and beyond.»

Moreover, a jump in the region's erosion rates about a million years ago coincides with a transition to more powerful ice ages — a sign that climate change can have a larger than expected effect in tearing down mountains.

A diminishing albedo in Arctic sea ice can be considered both the cause and effect of changes in sea ice.

Accumulating data from across the globe reveal a wide array of effects: rapidly melting glaciers, destabilization of major ice sheets, increases in extreme weather, rising sea level, shifts in species ranges, and more.

None of Cruz's comments disprove climate change, said Richard Alley, a scientist at Pennsylvania State University who specializes in the effects of global warming on ice.

If it happened in the last 100,000 years, it might be possible someday to extract traces of its effects from deep within the polar ice caps.

«Sea - level rise could nearly double over earlier estimates in next 100 years: Researchers model effects of melting Antarctic ice sheets.»

The glaciologist was combing through satellite and GPS data to see what small, local effects could be clouding satellite measurements of larger changes in Earth's gravity from ice loss.

The international research initiative IceGeoHeat led by the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences establishes in the current online issue of Nature Geoscience that this effect can not be neglected when modeling the ice sheet as part of a climate study.

Dr. Ray, also a scientist at ICES, said this may be because wealthier immigrants, who have lived in Canada longer, lose the «healthy immigrant effect,» where immigrants are generally healthier than people born in Canada.

The water you see being poured into the bottle is just water, but there is already dry ice in the bottle, producing the fogging effect.

Buehler and Qin hope their results will spark further research into the effects of carbon dioxide on fracturing in glaciers and ice sheets, they said in a statement.

Current estimates of sea - level rise by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change consider only the effect of melting ice sheets, thermal expansion and anthropogenic intervention in water storage on land.

Black carbon warms the atmosphere because of its ability to absorb radiation from the sun, but its effect can be especially pernicious in polar regions, where, falling on bright ice, the soot diminishes the regions» ability to reflect away heat.

Sea ice loss in the Arctic may trigger atmospheric effects that drive precipitation away from the state