Sentences with phrase «ice formations in»

(São Paulo, Brazil) Gallery welcomes German artist Frank Thiel, for his second solo exhibition, product of his many visits to Patagonia, where he turned his camera on the massive glacial ice formations in the Parque National Los Glaciares in Argentine, Patagonia, which is part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, the third largest ice cap in the world.

Nowhere is a Place marks the international debut of Thiel's latest work, in which he has turned his camera on the massive glacial ice formations in Argentine Patagonia.

This spot is beautiful year round, with lush green trees and waterfall views in summer and massive ice formations in winter.

An unprecedented analysis of North Pacific ocean circulation over the past 1.2 million years has found that sea ice formation in coastal regions is a key driver of deep ocean circulation, influencing climate on regional and global scales.

What the climate models were missing, she said, was the strong brine production from sea ice formation in the Bering Sea.

The resulting material was just as sturdy as unmodified bitumen, and it significantly delayed ice formation in lab studies.

From the Experimental investigation of gas hydrate and ice formation in methane - saturated sediments E.M. Chuvilin, E.V. Kozlova, N.A. Makhonina (Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Russia) and V.S. Yakushev (Gazprom, VNIIGAZ, Russia) in Permafrost Phillips, Springman & Arenson (eds) 2003 Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse, ISBN 90 5809 582 7

The study, published in the journal Nature Geosciences, suggests that the change of phase of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) from positive to negative, or vice versa, could initiate chain reaction of climate impact that may affect the sea ice formation in the Antarctic region.

Sea ice formation in the Amundsen and Bellingshausen seas has decreased by 10 % per decade and has also shortened in seasonal length [40].

Not exact matches

One possibility: time is just another spatial dimension except at the beginning of space and time This is perhaps like formation of an ice crystal or alignment of magnetic domains, a phase change in which time becomes timelike.

Some manufacturers don't like seeing gums on the label, which can really help with texture and reducing ice crystal formation in formulations with less fat and sugar.

To me it was still entertaining, just a bit long with the «brooms» skating around the ice in formation.

A perfect storm of high lake levels, ice formation and unprecedented spring rains flooded shoreline communities along Lake Ontario earlier this year, and that would have occurred with or without the new lake - level regulating Plan 2014, International Joint Commission officials said at an environmental conference in Buffalo.

«If we can understand the chemical complexity of these ices in the molecular cloud, and how they evolve during the formation of a star and its planets, then we can assess whether the building blocks of life should exist in every star system,» said Melissa McClure of the Universiteit van Amsterdam, the principal investigator on a research project to investigate cosmic ices.

The formation of ice in the air depends on water molecules latching together in a very specific hexagonal pattern that resembles three - dimensional chicken wire.

They play an important role in the formation of new sea ice and deep water.

Or perhaps, he says, formation models need to be adjusted to make it easier for larger building blocks to grow in the outer solar system where comets form and where ice and organic molecules could assist in the sticking.

The researchers do know that the presence of certain aerosols plays a large role in the formation of ice that leads to precipitation, but they also need to tease out the importance of that with other factors, like the amount of available water vapor and vertical storm winds.

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

The aerosols catalyze the formation of ice in the clouds, which could increase precipitation, although more research needs to be done on that linkage, Creamean said.

Water droplets and ice crystals in the atmosphere condensed on the infusion of dust particles and settled into pouch - like formations due to wind currents.

During this formation CO2 splits off and is dissolved in a heavy cold brine, which gets squeezed out of the ice and sinks into the deeper parts of the ocean.

Their stickiness makes it hard to get them through an inlet into a measuring device, but these compounds may play a significant role in the formation and alteration of aerosols, tiny airborne particles that can contribute to smog or to the nucleation of raindrops or ice crystals, affecting the Earth's climate.

What they found, Hansen says, is that melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica could inject enough fresh water into the seas to slow the formation of two key water masses: the North Atlantic Deepwater and the Antarctic Bottom Water formations.

Fast - forward from that first lightbulb moment with the video through a couple of years refining the idea, patent approval, and the formation of Marine Desalination Systems in 1999 to the procurement of federal funding in 2001, and Max is in St. Petersburg, Florida, with a lab in a refurbished 1927 art deco building where Sealtest once made cherry - vanilla ice cream.

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Although no one is sure what triggers their formation, one theory is that cosmic dust, or debris from burned - up meteors, seed the ice particles, which is plausible because meteors typically are incinerated in the upper mesosphere at about the same altitude where these clouds form.

They found that organic compounds, called amino nitriles, the molecular precursors to amino acids, were able to use molecules present in interstellar ice to trigger the formation of the backbone molecule, 2 - deoxy - D - ribose, of DNA.

The major concern in cryopreservation of cells is the possible formation of ice crystals inside in the cells.

He believes that the tusk, which occurs on most males and some females, «could be useful in a lot of ways: for detecting ice formation, aspects of prey, and hormonal signs.»

Effects of plasma channels on ice formation or precipitation processes could not be proved in typical storm clouds, where ice crystals and subcooled water droplets coexist.

A cloud front can be seen in the lower left, and dark areas indicate regions of open water between sea ice formations.

The formation of coastal sea ice, seen here in the Arctic Ocean, plays an important role in driving «overturning circulation» in the North Pacific Ocean.

The global climate models do a good job of simulating the process of sea ice formation over large areas in the open ocean.

Hence, the clouds that form at colder temperatures — if any form at all — contain much less suspended water in the form of ice crystals, the starting sites for snow crystal formation.

«Formation of coastal sea ice in North Pacific drives ocean circulation, climate: New understanding of changes in North Pacific ocean circulation over the past 1.2 million years could lead to better global climate models.»

Coastal sea ice formation takes place on relatively small scales, however, and is not captured well in global climate models, according to scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who conducted the study.

«A sort of grand problem in Earth science is to understand the water cycle — evaporation from the ocean, clouds, rain, the formation of ice, the runoff from the land back into the sea,» said Eric Lindstrom, Aquarius program scientist at NASA.

Coralliths have previously been identified in the fossil record, and evidence suggests that they have played a role in reef formation since at least the last Ice Age, researchers say.

There was an era called white earth which starts about 700 million years ago with alternating periods of deep ice sheets and then hotter warmer stages which led to formation of various kinds of crystals, and last and luckily we live in the period known as green earth, which started about 400 million years ago when multicellular life arose and wholly changed to biochemical breakdown the makeup of the minerals on the planet again.

TIPPING POINT A new record of the Antarctic ice sheet's formation suggests that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere could soon reach a tipping point that will make the ice sheet more vulnerable to melting.

Their paper, published in Physics of Fluids, from AIP Publishing, provides a model for four stages of ice formation on aircraft wings.

The hunt for extreme oil proceeds apace in the ultradeep waters off the coasts of Ghana and Nigeria, in the sulfur - laden depths of the Black Sea, under the polar ice caps, and in the gummy tar sands of Venezuela's Orinoco Basin and Canada's McMurray Formation.

In some places along the Antarctic coast, ice formation causes seawater to grow saltier and therefore denser, so that it sinks to the sea floor.

The ice sheet has fluctuated in size since its formation 34 million years ago, but scientists have previously assumed that it had stabilised around 14 million years ago.

Scientists have suggested that similar formations in Sweden formed when the immense weight of glacial ice forced sand and other loose material into fissures in underlying rocks.

The ice formation and offshore winds produce strong currents in these shallow marginal seas, which stir up the sediment and carry the methane produced there into the water column.

This has impaired ice formation, even in the winter months.

Climate change models predict that the Arctic sea ice will continue to shrink in a warming world (as much as 40 % of the ice is expected to be gone by midcentury), and the resulting changes — including later formation of ice in the autumn, rain falling on the snow, and decreasing snow depths — will make it increasingly difficult for the seals to construct their snow caves, NOAA says.

After downloading a few files from his site and depositing them in my Celestia folder, I found myself staring at a blue planet, cloud formations swirling across its surface, its vast oceans punctuated with landmasses and polar ice caps.