Sentences with phrase «ice forming over»

Unique to the polar region, pancake ice forms over time as ice crystals coagulate into thicker plates, whose edges often get rounded and raised as a result of bumping into other plates.

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(I didn't need to add extra flour because you work so much in when you flour your surface) I just suggest chilling the dough properly so that your house shapes keep the right form, and then trimming the edges when they're warm our of the over so the icing adheres better.

With a spoon or small ice cream scoop form little balls or bites over the paper.

Pour the mixture back into the saucepan and, while constantly whisking, cook over medium heat until the ice cream base is formed and coats the back of a spoon, 5 to 8 minutes.

In a single motion, drag the spoon through the ice cream toward the near edge of the container so it curls over itself to form the quenelle.

Such a crust could have formed as energetic particles known as cosmic rays bombarded the object over its lifetime, creating an ice - free surface rich in organic compounds.

As long as they don't form ice crystals, these clouds won't shed more than a few flakes of snow over the Sierras» 13,000 - foot peaks.

When it's cold enough to form ice shelves that extend over the Antarctic land mass and into the ocean, much of what drops to the seafloor is sand and gravel that the glacier has picked up on its slow march from the continent's ice cap.

King penguins are in fact picky animals: in order to form a colony where they can mate, lay eggs and rear chicks over a year, they need tolerable temperature all year round, no winter sea ice around the island, and smooth beach of sand or pebbles.

Each winter, the WAP sea surface freezes over, forming a skin of «fast ice» that holds back the bergs.

The frozen tissues warmed up by over 120 oC (almost 250 oF) in one minute — ushering the samples safely from vitrification to a thawed state before ice crystals could form.

Because stars like TRAPPIST - 1 are brightest right after they form and gradually dim thereafter, the ice line tends to move in over time, like the boundary between dry ground and snow - covered ground around a dying campfire on a snowy night.

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.

These events happen when winter rain percolates through snow and forms an impenetrable ice barrier over moss and lichen at the soil surface.

By analyzing this data over the following six months, the researchers found that clouds that grew at the lowest temperatures required extremely high relative humidity in order for water vapor to form an ice crystal around a dust particle.

Hawkings and his collaborators spent three months in 2012 and 2013 gathering water samples and measuring the flow of water from the 600 - square - kilometer (230 - square - mile) Leverett Glacier and the smaller, 36 - square - kilometer (14 - square - mile) Kiattuut Sermiat Glacier in Greenland as part of a Natural Environment Research Council - funded project to understand how much phosphorus, in various forms, was escaping from the ice sheet over time and draining into the sea.

These droplets are still liquid below 0 °C, but as they strike the wing or tail's leading edge, they flow over it and freeze, forming streaks of «glaze ice» that disrupt airflow.

To assess whether liquid water flowed over the region during the heat spells Mars experiences every 50,000 years, an onboard microscope will examine cracks in the subsurface ice that should form during cold times.

The most convincing evidence for this, says Jouzel, comes from isotope ratios; ice that has frozen in site has a higher proportion of water molecules containing the heavy form of oxygen, oxygen - 18, than that of ice that has been transported over long distances by weather systems.

Colin Dundas at the US Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona, and his colleagues examined pictures from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and found eight patches of ice, which had formed over millions of years.

The bright clouds form when the flow of ambient air is perturbed and diverted upward over the dark vortex, causing gases to likely freeze into methane ice crystals.

The team suspects that some of the pockets in these gullies might have held water in various forms in the recent past, over the last few hundreds of thousands of years, periodically harboring snow and ice when the conditions were right.

Re 92 and 105: First I just want to reitterate more generally what 105 said — Milankovitch cycles have had climate signals, in ice ages or otherwise, — well probably ever since the Moon formed, although the signal from times past will not always reach us, but I've read of evidence of Milankovitch precession cycle forcing of monsoons in lakes in Pangea (PS over geologic time the periods of some of the Milankovitch cycles have changed as the Moon recedes from the Earth due to tides).

Every year that it snows in Antarctica, the new snow layer weighs on the previous layer, compacting over hundreds or thousands of years to eventually form layers of ice.

With higher precipitation, portions of this snow may not melt during the summer and so glacial ice can form at lower altitudes and more southerly latitudes, reducing the temperatures over land by increased albedo as noted above.

This warm phase had begun in the Cretaceous period, peaked in the early Eocene, and continued to the end of the Eocene, when global temperatures dropped and ice sheets formed over the Antarctic.

Way back in 1986, out of Reagan - era conservatism where drugs, crime and gang warfare reigned over South Central L.A. and adjacent areas sprang a group that forever changed the face of music — N.W.A. Eazy - E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, DJ Yella, and MC Ren cranked out hit after hit, taking an underground art form mainstream.

When water had accumulated and formed ice under bridges or overpasses — visible as short, reflective pools — the BMW X1 would juke left or right even if I coasted over those patches with the steering wheel straight.

To keep moisture and ice from forming on your outside mirrors, place large Ziploc bags over them and seal them up as much as possible.

New rumors say that Samsung might not be able to bring Ice Cream Sandwich but still wants to bring some of its features over to the device in the form of a «value pack.»

The Blue Hole was a cave system formed in the last Ice Age and, when the sea began to rise again, the caves flooded and the roof collapsed, creating a sink hole over 400ft deep.

Trundling over gigantic glaciers, through burrowing tunnels and across ice cold, glimmering lakes, the Jungfrau Railway is a masterclass of structural design, navigating its way to places no other form of transport can.

Formed as a limestone cave in the last Ice Age, the unique structure is thought to be over 153, 000 years old.

Formed over 10,000 years ago by the rising waters of the last great Ice Age, the Belize Blue Hole came to the world's attention in 1971 when legendary French marine biologist Jacques Cousteau declared it to be one of his top 10 favorite dive sites in the world.

Beyond the Asteroid Belt frontier, just orbiting over Jupiter's skies, there is a vast world of ice and - perhaps - primitive forms of extraterrestrial life.

Impasto swaths of earth tones, copper taches and ice cold blue form an all over glacial pattern that moves inexorably across the horizontal canvas.

Among their most popular projects are «Spoonbridge and Cherry», a functional walking bridge over a stream in the form of a teaspoon holding a cherry, «Shuttlecocks», which seem to have landed from a titan - sized badminton game and «Dropped Cone», a giant vanilla ice cream cone that collides with the corner of the roof of a shopping mall.

I have a story coming tonight in print on a new paper tracking the impact over time of those iconic drainpipes for meltwater forming each summer on the warming flanks of the vast Greenland ice sheet.

This new ice formed quite close to the Pole, and with the prevailing winds and currents (which push ice from Siberia towards Greenland) is now over the Pole itself.

Scientists believe that the brown bear lineage split over 300,000 years ago to form the polar bear (Ursus maritimus), theorizing that a group of early brown bears became isolated in colder regions and ultimately adapted to life on ice.

Here's the main graphic, which shows the dramatic recent expansion of open water (dark blue) at the peak of summer melt, and the decline in thick old ice (white is ice that is over five years old) and thin ice formed the previous winter (light blue).

Over the past millennium this graph, most of which is obtained from Antarctic ice cores, shows CO2 holding steady at 280 ± 5 ppm up to 1800, when global population was about a billion people and sailing ships and the horse - and - buggy were the most advanced forms of transportation, consuming relatively little energy per capita compared with today.

Watching the ice sheets in Antarctica over the past two days a large fresh water melt pond formed on the glacier scrolling east from McMurdo station.

An ice core - formed by compaction of previous snowfalls - constitutes a historical record of the local climate and atmosphere stretching back over thousands of years.

Over thousands of years, the layers of snow build up, forming a flowing sheet of ice thousands of feet thick and tens to thousands of miles across.

The Arctic «radiator» thus became about 10 % more efficient (10 % reduction in ice extent) over the next several years peaking in 2007 and now those chickens are coming home to roost in the form of a cold pulse making its way along the ocean floor back down to the tropics.

Heavy ice formed on the Thames, thick enough to allow a sheep to be roasted over a roaring fire at Hammersmith.

A study in Nature Geoscience describes how compiling previously reported measurements made at 733 northern water bodies − from small ponds formed by beavers to large lakes formed by permafrost thaw or ice - sheets — has enabled researchers to estimate emissions over large scales more accurately.

However the northern autumn would be getting slightly cooler over the centuries, so ice would tend to be formed earlier.

Maybe it's just all that unexpected sea ice from the melting ice caps forming over those warm oceans ☺.