Sentences with phrase «ice flows through»

It is expected that ice flowing through Nares Strait will disintegrate and melt before reaching Baffin Bay.

It is expected that the ice flowing through Nares Strait will disintegrate and melt before the south end of the Strait and Baffin Bay.

Not exact matches

Next year, the team will install seismometers to listen in on the flow of water through and beneath the ice, and to crevasse formation.

Davis likens the technique to flying over a frozen river where you can see static patterns formed by the ice while also detecting flowing liquid water — and doing it over and over through the spring as the frozen waterway gradually melts.

The work has revealed previously unknown undersea channels, through which warm water might flow toward fragile ice shelves.

In recent years, melting sea ice has allowed more of the Pacific water to flow through the Bering Strait into the Arctic Ocean.

As global warming affects the earth and ocean, the retreat of the sea ice means there won't be as much cold, dense water, generated through a process known as oceanic convection, created to flow south and feed the Gulf Stream.

In this hot ice, the oxygen ions of the water molecules behave like a solid, staying in place to form a lattice, while the hydrogen ions flow through it like a fluid.

When the water reaches a certain level it breaches a weak point, then flows through channels in the ice.

They discovered potentially revelatory harmonic properties of ice quakes, which are minor rumbles produced when cracks in the ice are reshaped by water flowing through them.

In Antarctica, we find significant dynamic thinning of fast - flowing ice at rates greater than plausible through interannual accumulation variability for drainage sectors....

SALSA will gather data from permanent GPS stations to better understand subglacial water flow's influence on the larger ice sheet system and improve subglacial lake modeling through comparing our model's estimates against geochemical data.

Meanwhile, a different physical process in the comet's smooth mid-section was causing water ice to vaporize and flow through porous material to escape as a cloud of water vapor at the same time (NASA news release, and page on «fluffy snowballs;» David Shiga, New Scientist, November 18, 2010; and Astronomy Picture of the Day).

Snow and ice from the Tibetan Plateau and Himalayan range (upper left), an important source of water for many people, can be seen feeding rivers that flow down through India.

So perhaps some deeper, darker (and more darkly comic) current flows through Smith's veins - an effervescent sort of ice water, perhaps - that allows him to live as comfortably as a New Yorker as he once did as a Midwesterner.

The deserts, ice flows and lonely archipelago have retained a breadth of wildlife and ecology which have continued to fascinate adventurers and naturalists through the ages.

Logia characters are literally made up of a flowing form of some description, such as Lava, Fire, Gas, Ice — something that can be manipulated and passed through.

Moreover, Kagoron of Goron Village provides the young hero with a Freight Car after he asks that Link bring Mega Ice in order to cool down the lava that has been recently flowing through the village.

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The problem with the paleoclimate ice sheet models is that they do not generally contain the physics of ice streams, effects of surface melt descending through crevasses and lubricating basal flow, or realistic interactions with the ocean.

Lakes on the surface of Greenland's ice sheet are draining through the kilometre - thick ice and roaring to the bedrock with a flow rate exceeding that of Niagara Falls.

Alastair notes that increased water vapour will carry more energy to the surface of the glaciers, likewise these increased water flows over, through and under the glaciers is also transferring vast amounts of energy into the ice.

Runoff from steep ice - cliffs, or through subglacial flow driven by water percolating through pores or fractures, will convert a high fraction of melting into ablation.

In some cases, the water percolates through cracks and is thought to speed the flow of ice to the sea; thus the resulting rise in sea levels.

Expanding fields of crevasses appear to be limiting the flow of water to the base of the ice through tube - like moulins.

Looking at the Arctic ice event this year, it seems to me that a major part of that particular problem came with warm waters flowing through the Bering Strait into the Arctic Sea.

The margins usually slope more steeply, and most ice is discharged through fast - flowing ice streams or outlet glaciers, in some cases into the sea or into ice shelves floating on the sea.

The relatively warm water flowing through the glacier also carries surface heat deep inside the ice sheet far faster than it would otherwise penetrate by simple conduction.

Heat pumps don't work worth a crap for heating when the outside air temperature is much below 50F because the outside heat exchanger ices up which stops the fan driven air from flowing through it.

Because Antarctica drains more than 80 percent of its ice sheet through floating ice shelves, accelerated glacier flow has the potential to affect ice sheet mass balance dramatically and raise sea level (Pritchard et al. 2012).

«Once ice loss through the calving of icebergs goes beyond the passive shelf ice and cuts into the safety band, ice flow towards the ocean will accelerate, which might well entail an elevated contribution to sea - level rise for decades and centuries to come.»

If you pump water to this exceedingly remote, freezing place, said Levermann, then in 1,000 years, only about 20 percent of its equivalent will return to the ocean, through the gradual spreading and flow of Antarctic ice out toward the sea under its own massive weight.

Gudmandsen — new Petermann ice island expected to enter Hall Basin within the next week; moderate flow of ice through Nares Strait including the Petermann ice island and smaller icebergs from Humboldt glacier will impact tourist vessels trying to reach Hans Island

This flow of moisture is then chemically ice nucleated by the climate engineers as it travels down through Canada and into the central and eastern portions of the US.

As Howell notes, the opening may only be temporary since open water in this region provides a pathway for the southward flow of multi-year ice through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

Ice shelves grow through a combination of land ice flowing to the sea and snow accumulating on their surfaIce shelves grow through a combination of land ice flowing to the sea and snow accumulating on their surfaice flowing to the sea and snow accumulating on their surface.

The outgoing flow through Fram Strait carries with it large volumes of fresh water as fragmented pack ice, a flow that is strongly episodic at decadal scale and is associated with the series of so called Great Salinity Anomalies observed within the circulation of the subarctic gyre and in the Nordic seas that were discussed in the previous chapter.

A large floe in Robeson Channel is also blocking the flow of multi-year ice through Nares Strait.

Sea level is rising, primarily in response to a warming planet, through thermal expansion of the oceans, and also via the loss of land ice as ocean and air temperatures increase, melting ice and speeding the flow of non-floating ice to form floating icebergs.

Glacier - A mass of land ice that flows downhill under gravity (through internal deformation and / or sliding at the base) and is constrained by internal stress and friction at the base and sides.

Nearshore benthic communities also could undergo significant change induced by reduced ice cover, longer open - water season, changing flows through the Bering Strait, increased frequency and intensity of storms, increased river and freshwater runoff, and increased ice scouring and coastal erosion.

For example, the Pacific - Arctic Gateway through the Bering Strait would be an ideal monitoring area because of increased heat and freshwater flow, increased marine mammal migration, declining sea ice cover, increased oil and gas exploration, exploratory fisheries in the last decade, and flow of pollutants, especially persistent organic pollutants largely from Asia.

Pritchard points out that basal melt is a control on total mass waste ``... through a reduction in buttressing of the adjacent ice sheet leading to accelerated glacier flow.»

Ice bridges are static structures composed of tightly packed sea ice that can form during the course of its flow through a narrow straIce bridges are static structures composed of tightly packed sea ice that can form during the course of its flow through a narrow straice that can form during the course of its flow through a narrow strait.