Sentences with phrase «ice floes which»

Finally: You're experiencing a cold snowy scene in Greenland beneath a piercing blue sky, gazing up warily as huge chunks of glacier plunge down, right in front of you, into a raging river of ice floes which could have sunk another Titantic, but now, in the modern day, are emblematic of what is sinking Planet Earth.

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In fact, four ScanEagles used in Afghanistan have now been repurposed for ConocoPhillips, which uses them to track mammal migration and ice floes in Alaska under a restricted FAA license.

In other words, no matter what other managers might be thinking, she still sees plenty of room on the ice floe in which to run.

These thick floes will then be followed by thin ice, which melts faster in the summer.

«The sea ice cap, which used to be a solid sheet of ice, now is fragmented into smaller floes that are more exposed to warm ocean waters.

When geographical barriers — such as rising sea levels or retracting ice floes — separate populations, they may develop genetic, physiological, or behavioral differences; changes in chromosome structure or number; differently shaped genitalia; or incompatible mating times and rituals — any of which can prevent successful reproduction.

This documentary tells the story of the survival of British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the crew of his vessel «The Endurance,» which shipwrecked in the ice floes and frigid ocean of the Antarctic in 1914.

Sculptural white icebergs, ice floes and deep blue seas flank the barren, rocky coastlines, which are home to moss, lichens and small plants and an incredible abundance of marine mammals and seabirds.

There is a sub-plot that accompanies Anno's typically insipid RTS - lite elements in which you pilot a fleet of battleships around ice floes and islands blowing up moon terrorists and completing fetch quests for fellow CEOs (whose own battle fleets must be having their MOTs).

Canada House, London, until 30 November In the region around Floe Edge, where the vast Arctic Ocean meets frozen sea ice, the word «art» translates in Inuktitut as «sanaugait», which taken literally means «things made by hand».

... Researchers estimate the melt pond in the picture was just over 2 feet deep and a few hundred feet wide, which is not unusual for an Arctic ice floe in late July.

The ice concentration of the small floes was about 10 to 30 percent and the mini-icebergs jutting out of the water by about one meter provided for a situation which was mastered by the modern multipurpose heavy lift project carriers being built with ice class E3 and the experience of the captains.

Drafts of scientific papers and a photo collage that portrays climate skeptics on an ice floe were also among the hacked data, some of which dates back 13 years.

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.

(Keep in mind that almost all Arctic sea ice researchers add a big caveat when talking of an «ice - free Arctic Ocean,» noting that a big region of thick floes north and west of Greenland will almost surely persist in summers through this century, which is one reason some scientists have proposed targeting polar bear conservation efforts there.)

Newly grown sea ice (greyish areas) forming between old floes, which survived the previous summer melt.

For some years now we have been exposed to mournful photographs of polar bears floating away on ice floes, or otherwise appearing endangered... The theory on which polar bears are supposed to be endangered because their environment is becoming more benign has never been entirely clear, nor has there been data to support the claim that their populations are declining.

Churn the ice, fragmenting it into smaller pieces which are easier to melt out, turning floes upside down even, with their darker bottoms (due to algae etc) showing up, soaking up more sunlight.

However, we found many floes with modal ice thicknesses between 0.9 and 2.0 m, which is similar to or thicker than what was observed last summer even further north.

The sea ice cap, which used to be a solid sheet of ice, is now fragmented into smaller floes that are exposed to warm water on more sides.

In the summer, the layers and puddles of water which can accumulate on the surface of the ice floes mislead the algorithm in to underestimating the total ice concentration.»

In another few years, it will have retreated away from the shoreline of Anse des Glaçons (the cove of ice floes, a place name which will provoke nostalgia one day).

He is interested in developing next - generation sea ice models which capture anisotropic nature of ice dynamics / mechanics and explicitly simulate both ice thickness distribution and floe size distribution jointly.

Yet the katabatic winds which blow off West Greenland are sufficient to drive ice floes away from the shore, and to induce a northwards ocean current along the coast.