Sentences with phrase «ice floes broke»

In February and March 2015, scientists studying the highly dynamic, thinning Arctic drift ice north of Svalbard were forced to evacuate their ice camp several times as ice floes broke up under their feet.

A miles - wide ice floe broke away Saturday from Lake Erie's shoreline, trapping more than 130 fishermen, some for as long as four hours.

When he was there he witnessed a massive multi year ice floe break up before his eyes.

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Then watching your ship literally break apart as you stood on ice floes.

Much more of the Arctic ocean was comprised of individual broken ice floes and the pack ice had holes in it exposing ocean in many places.

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.

While satellite images show more ice broken up and in smaller floes, there's «a lot still on the lake,» Leshkevich said.

If the ice is broken up, the areas of open water between floes absorb a great deal of solar energy in summer.

This may have helped break up ice floes and encourage melting, although no formal studies of this event have yet been completed.