Sentences with phrase «ice floes at»

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The bears» feeding strategy involves swimming from the mainland to and between offshore ice floes, poaching seals as they come up to breathe at holes in the ice.

Along the floe's drift course southwards from the Pole, we could see in detail at what point the ice began melting.

The team high - fived and hugged when they stuck the first tag onto one of the whales and «just went crazy» when it was still attached to its host's back after a nerve - wracking dive beneath an ice floe, says Ari Friedlaender, a marine mammal ecologist at Oregon State University's Marine Mammal Institute in Newport, who led the team.

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.

We see that he was equally skilled at painting a lush garden and the sea covered with jagged ice floes.

While shippers have for centuries dreamed of sending cargo over the top of the world --- a huge shortcut compared to other long - distance sea routes — Pablo Clemente - Colón, the chief scientist at the National Ice Center, said the open water in the passages over Russia, particularly, remains clotted with thick dangerous floes and also can close up in a matter of hours.

In that case, the report was of the presence of some open water at the pole — which as the correction stated, is not that uncommon as ice floes and leads interact.

In the antarctic polar band (60 and south) there is no ocean at all, all water vapor coming in from the stratospheric conveyor belt (Hadley cell to temperate cell to polar cell), and in the north, there is an icy ocean mostly covered with floes and fast ice.

Recently published research by Barber and colleagues shows that the ice cover was even more fragile at the end of the melt season than satellite data indicated, with regions of the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas covered by small, rotten ice floes.

In a remarkable bit of irony, the art chosen by editors (not by the authors of the letter) at Science to accompany the letter was a picture of a polar bear on an ice floe.

Regionally, it can help delay sea ice loss, but on a pan-arctic scale it enhances overall ice melt and ice volume reduction, as these old floes melt faster at lower latitudes.

We might look at it this way, melting the first meter of ice in a storm is easier; the second meter is much tougher, in spite of the dispersed and broken floes, because a lot of the available heat has been used up.

A large sector of what was remotely sensed to be multi-year sea ice at 7 to 9 + tenths ice cover, consisting primarily of multy - year ice floes, was in fact a surface of heavily decayed ice composed of some small multi-year floes (1 tenth) interspersed in a cover dominated by heavily decayed first - year floes (1 tenths) and overlain by new sea ice in areas of negative freeboard and in open water between floes.

His first encounter with sea ice took place at age 5, when he slipped on a floe in Stonybrook Harbor, New York, resulting in five stitches above his left eye.

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Before we get too bogged down in theological problems such as calculating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin (or climate modellers on an ice floe) perhaps we should look at what the data actually show.

Strong winds blowing off the continent are pushing the giant floe away from its parent, the giant Pine Island Glacier, and the warming Southern Hemisphere's has melted the thick winter sea ice that held the block in place since July, said Grant Bigg, an ocean modeler at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.

Evidence A Glaciologist Julienne Stroeve's ship is at 84 ° North and yet she reports «helicopter reconnaissance shows no large ice floes within at least one day of sailing.»

• Julienne Stroeve's ship at 83 ° N is having trouble finding any large ice - floes at all.

JF As an exercise for the reader, have a look at melting ice floe images and count up how many show a tail of obviously smoothed water across the water surface nearby.

The Skate's job is to see if it can be done when the Arctic winter is at its worst, with high winds pushing the floes into motion and the ice as thick as twenty - five feet.

Then at the end of the novel, they go into the Arctic Ocean and we're led to believe that they die as they drift off on an ice floe,» he said.

Pictures of stranded polar bears perched on crumbling ice floes, seemingly all - at - sea in the face of global warming, inevitably grab the attention.

The Polarstern reported low ice concentrations in Baffin Bay at the beginning of August with heavily melted ice remnants (20 - 100m cakes, i.e., small ice floes).