Sentences with phrase «ice fields around»

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

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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?

This invisible «force field» around our planet has a general shape resembling an ice cream cone, with a rounded front and a long, trailing tail that faces away from the sun.

Jaubert explains: «When I was looking to see if a similar phenomenon has already been described, I was glad to see that some other research groups around the world obtained the same results experimentally using spin ice made of terbium in the presence of a strong magnetic field at temperatures close to absolute zero.

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.

«Realizing my kids further on might not be able to experience this, they may not be able to strap on their crampons and ice axes and roam around on the ice fields — that's significant,» he said.

The fields might be generated if a layer of ionic fluid water swirled around an inner core of superionic ice.

To understand sea - level change means understanding not only the transfer of land ice into the ocean, but also, for example, how the gravitational field of the Earth changes as inconceivably large water volumes shift around the planet.

Last year, a study of its gravitational field hinted at a 10 - kilometer - thick regional ocean around the south pole lying under an ice crust some 30 to 40 kilometers deep.

While pushing around massive sculptures, the players dance across the ice field guided by the shouted commands of a computer - generated voice.

Ice cores retrieved from shrinking glaciers around the world confirm their continuous existence for periods ranging from hundreds of years to multiple millennia, suggesting that climatological conditions that dominate those regions today are different from those under which these ice fields originally accumulated and have been sustainIce cores retrieved from shrinking glaciers around the world confirm their continuous existence for periods ranging from hundreds of years to multiple millennia, suggesting that climatological conditions that dominate those regions today are different from those under which these ice fields originally accumulated and have been sustainice fields originally accumulated and have been sustained.

The US CLIVAR Greenland Ice Sheet - Ocean Interactions Working Group was formed to foster and promote interaction between the diverse oceanographic, glaciological, atmospheric and climate communities, including modelers and field and data scientists within each community, interested in glacier / ocean interactions around Greenland, to advance understanding of the process and ultimately improve its representation in climate models.

(3) The white sea ice fringe around the continent next to red - hot West Antarctica sets up a distorted field / ground relationship that leads the eye to preferentially foviate on the hot side of the figure as the dominant and therefore lasting visual impression;

Photographs from the 2017 Operation IceBridge field campaign show the many forms of land and sea ice around the frozen (and melting) southern continent.

Explorers of the Antarctic have powerfully impacted research in the field, suggesting that the area of sea ice found around Antarctica has hardly changed in size during the last century.