Sentences with phrase «ice fields»

He appears to have spent more time on ice fields above 18,000 feet than any human being in history.

Temperature varied rapidly in the climb out of the last glacial period — as a result of ice fields changes — and peaked around 6,000 years ago.

The process is self reinforcing and runaway ice growth ultimately covers much of the north in kilometres deep ice fields.

So ice fields can be easily detected, and the fraction of ice coverage can be estimated.

A research scientist at Ohio State's Byrd Polar Research Center, Mosley - Thompson collects ice cores from the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, while colleague Lonnie Thompson, a professor of geological sciences at Ohio State, collects cores from the mountainous ice fields of China and South America.

Here you find mountains akin to the dramatic landscapes of New Zealand, combined with the largest glacial ice fields in South America, slowly melting to feed into a vast network of turquoise rivers and lakes, with water so pure you can drink it!

The view of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field from the plane confirms that for me.

These events made the ice pack vulnerable to accelerated melt, both through solar heating of open water and by melting of ice floes from warm ocean waters mixed into the sea ice field by the storm.

In 2004, they began monitoring Europe's largest ice field by area: Austfonna ice cap, a monster that is 560 meters thick in spots and straddles 8500 square kilometers, roughly the area of Puerto Rico.

A date for the ultimate demise of these glaciers has not been fixed, but the Northern Ice Field on Kilimanjaro may be gone in as little as twenty years, after having survived the past 11,000 years.

«This is exceptionally important work,» he says, especially because Thompson's team has tracked these and other ice fields for 25 years.

Its about 120 km over the glacial ice fields between Novo Station and the lake.

Los Glaciares National Park, part of the third largest ice field in the world, on November 27, 2015 in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina.

A new analysis of a Martian rock that meteorite hunters plucked from an Antarctic ice field 30 years ago this month reveals a record of the planet's climate billions of years ago, back when water likely washed across its surface and any life that ever formed there might have emerged.

This most northerly point of the entire Northeast - Passage will be reached within this Friday, 4th of September: according to the analysis of the meteorologists thick ice blocks are to be expected in the southern area of the Vilkizki Strait as well as compact ice fields at the western exit and the entrance to the Kara Sea.

Co-author Dr Ivan Haigh, lecturer in coastal oceanography at the University of Southampton and also based at NOCS, adds: «Historical observations show a rising sea level from about 1800 as sea water warmed up and melt water from glaciers and ice fields flowed into the oceans.

Multi-panel paintings in oil and smaller paintings on canvas and aluminum formats explore the tundra fragmented into puddles and bits of ice with small cascades flowing over the rocks, reminders of accelerated seasonal changes melting ice fields and sea ice.

In the southern reaches of Patagonia is the breathtakingly beautiful Parque Nacional Torres del Paine, which is dominated by rugged mountain peaks, deep fjords and channels teeming with penguins, and enormous ice fields flanked by brilliant blue glaciers.

The obvious question now is, How did a nice Bronx boy, who knows the Lexington Avenue subway line like an Iditarod musher knows her dogs, get to bouncing around low and slow over ice fields a short jump from Sitka?

Paul Sipiera, president of PSF and expedition leader, covered the meteorite research, whereas my task was to collect ice cores for investigations of microbial biodiversity in permanent ice fields.

The Greenland Ice Sheet and other arctic ice fields likely contributed no more than 4 m of the observed sea level rise, implying that there may also have been a contribution from Antarctica.

However, there is both theoretical and observational evidence that melting now occurs on the horizontal surfaces of the Kilimanjaro Northern Ice Field, and contributes to ablation [Moelg and Hardy 2004; Thompson et al 2002].

As Crozier watches, the jagged ice fields around the ship turn blue, then bleed...

Compared with recent studies of mammoths found in the Siberian ice fields, the bison study seemed somewhat unglamorous.

On Sunday wireless reports of ice and icebergs began to come in as the Cunard liner Caronia reported a huge ice field at 42 degrees north stretching from 49 to 51 degrees west.

NASA scientists prepare for an unprecedented look at the Red Planet's ancient seas and modern ice fields — key sites in the ongoing search for life.

NANTES, FRANCE — Despite basking in the sun's fiery glow, tiny Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system, is probably home to extensive ice fields.

However, the Purdue team's convection model suggests that the age of the surface of the nitrogen ice fields of the Sputnik Planum region is even younger, around one million years old, he said.

A study of the demise of the Laurentide Ice Sheet that once covered Canada may help scientists better understand shrinking ice fields today — like this melting ice margin in Greenland.

During a six - week tour of Antarctica, he slept in a tent under the midnight sun and rode a snowmobile to ice fields littered with meteorites by day.

When geologists first surveyed Glacier National Park in the 1850s, approximately 150 glaciers existed; at present, only 25 of these glaciers or ice fields remain (Chaney 2016).

Since 2009, Steven has been involved in the recovery of meteorites from the blue ice fields surrounding the Sør Rondane Mountains of Eastern Antarctica.

(It was discovered in Antarctica's Allan Hills ice field in 1984.)

The uplift occurring here is due to present - day melting of glaciers and ice fields formed during the Little Ice Age glacial advance that occurred between 1550 A.D. and 1850 A.D.»

It offers great scenery beneath the glaciated precipices of the Southern ice fields before summiting from the higher Barafu Camp.

At the heart of the incredible Icefields Parkway is one of the largest non-polar ice fields in the world.

The glaciers, including Grey, Pingo and Tyndall, belong to the Southern Patagonia Ice Field.

Eastern Ice Field is by Big Giant Circles!

Over the last 35 years, our research team has recovered ice - core records of climatic and environmental variations from the polar regions and from low - latitude high - elevation ice fields from 16 countries.

At the start of a glacial period, as more and more ice accumulates in the polar regions, more and more incoming solar radiation is reflected from the growing ice fields, which leads to further cooling.

Five years after warning that the famed ice fields on Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro may melt, Ohio State University researchers have sadly found that their prediction is coming true.

The glistening ice fields for which Glacier National Park is named are retreating higher into their alpine valleys.