Sentences with phrase «ice in the region in»

«This is the first - ever such survey in the Northwest Passage, and we were surprised to find this much thick ice in the region in late winter, despite the fact that there is more and more open water in recent years during late summer,» says Haas.

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According to Tesla, the problem is infrequent and typically occurs in cold - weather regions where a particular kind of salt is used to clear snow and ice on the road.

Although global warming may now be a serious concern, it is likely that long - term climate cycles will cause large ice sheets to return at some time in the distant future, and cataclysmic outburst floods will probably recur in this region.»

Maggie Beer Products operates from a base near Tanunda in South Australia's famous winemaking region of the Barossa Valley, and makes a range of gourmet products such as quince paste, soups, ice - cream, jams, chutney and pate which are sold in supermarkets and gourmet food stores.

And in the more remote coastal regions, you'd be hard pressed to find any that stocked dairy free ice cream.

The company is arguably the oldest operating company in the United States marketing Italian Ices and it is the Philadelphia metropolitan region's largest Italian Ice manufacturer.

The teams played before a good crowd of 10,578 in the 13,000 - seat arena considering A&M was closed on Tuesday because of an ice storm that had enveloped the region starting early that morning.

While my kids have not yet been to Fenelon Falls, they are well - versed in most flavours of Kawartha Dairy ice cream — another jewel of the Kawartha Lakes region.

The Conservatives won more than two - thirds of the county council seats in the Anglia region and the icing on the cake was winning the first election for the new Metro Mayor in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

If one part of an ice shelf starts to thin, it can trigger rapid ice losses in other regions as much as 900 kilometres away — contributing to sea level rise

Study researchers Hélène Seroussi and Erik Ivins of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory built a model of all the known melting and freezing under the ice in the region.

Many scientists think these permanently shadowed regions, such as the floors on impact craters in the Moon's polar regions, could hold large deposits or water ice.

The model produced scenarios in which ice covered the region near the location of the valley networks.

The new study «demonstrates that climate change can remobilize POPs stored in water, snow, ice and presumably soils — and that this process is already occurring in the Arctic region,» he wrote in an essay accompanying the new study.

Forming in the system's colder outer regions, where volatile compounds such as water and carbon dioxide freeze out, makes it possible that the planets incorporated those ices and carried them along to a warmer place where they could melt, evaporate, and become oceans and atmospheres.

Warming in the Arctic is causing the release of toxic chemicals long trapped in the region's snow, ice, ocean and soil, according to a new study.

Completed in 1980 but operational before then, the VLA was behind the discoveries of water ice on Mercury; the complex region surrounding Sagittarius A *, the black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy; and it helped astronomers identify a distant galaxy already pumping out stars less than a billion years after the big bang.

In order to understand these processes, one of Webb's Director's Discretionary Early Release Science projects will examine a nearby star - forming region to determine which ices are present where.

Light blue represents the region in which the glacier's ice front has advanced and retreated over time.

Climate modelers do not include effects on land - based ice in these regions because they can not reduce them to equations, such as x amount of extra heat equals y amount of melting.

At the time, it was an inert chunk of ice, dust and frozen gases, floating nearly motionless in the outermost region of the solar system, a thousand times more distant than Pluto.

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Following an expected soft landing in the northern polar region, Phoenix will study the planet's ice cap and use a robotic arm to dig into the Martian subsurface, collecting ice and soil samples.

Higher precipitation levels in the region and melting ice would decouple the surface from the deeper water layers.

The fall of the temperature of the sea water is sometimes a sign of the proximity of ice, although in regions where there is an intermixture of cold and warm currents going on, as at the junction of the Labrador Current and the Gulf Stream, the temperature of the sea has been known to rise as the ice is approached.

Should ice in Arctic regions, such as Greenland, melt again, the globe may face a similar situation, sending Europe into a colder age despite warming taking place elsewhere.

A new University of Colorado Boulder study comparing dissolved black carbon deposition on ice and snow in ecosystems around the world (including Antarctica, the Arctic, and alpine regions of the Himalayas, Rockies, Andes, and Alps) shows that while concentrations vary widely, significant amounts can persist in both pristine and non-pristine areas of snow.

A portion of that fallout is trapped in the ice of the polar regions and can be analyzed even thousands of years afterwards.

Not much grows in the icy polar regions, but for the fern - like clusters of ice crystals called frost flowers this is the perfect environment, especially when it's still and dry.

In comparison, it took the Jakobshavn Isbræ ice stream — a southwest Greenland region with a fast - moving glacier that has been a focal point of scientific examination of ice sheet melt — 150 years to retreat 35 kilometers, said Khan.

The paper, to appear Sept. 14 in The Cryosphere, is the first to quantify the sea ice changes in each polar bear subpopulation across the entire Arctic region using metrics that are specifically relevant to polar bear biology.

The data, collected by aerial survey missions flown in the Southern Hemisphere in the summer of 2014 - 2015, provide detailed topography of the perpetually ice - free region, where surprising landscape changes, such as rapid erosion along some streams, have been observed in recent years.

Our study is significant because, while there are various different estimates for the start and end of the Little Ice Age in different regions of the world, our data show that the most extreme phases occurred at the same time in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

Satellite data show that, between 1979 and 2013, the summer ice - free season expanded by an average of 5 to 10 weeks in 12 Arctic regions, with sea ice forming later in the fall and melting earlier in the spring.

Now, a new modeling study finds a link between these winters and the decline of sea ice in a part of the Arctic Ocean known as the Barents - Kara sea region, bordering Norway and Russia.

There are native earthworms in North America, but not in regions that had been covered in glaciers during the Ice Age.

Water vapor and clouds may play a role The Arctic's summer ice cover hit a record low in 2007, when it dipped about 40 percent below the average ice cover recorded since 1979, when scientists began monitoring the region with satellites.

Kite and Rubin have proposed that new Cassini data can test this idea by revealing whether or not the ice shell in the south polar region is warm.

It's known that when ice sheets start to melt, cooling the air in that region, the winds over the Southern Ocean strengthen, Toggweiler says.

Cooperation is important because research and security in the Arctic region require comprehensive and long - term weather, ice, sea, and atmospheric observations and modelling.

The team, led by Dr Kira Rehfeld and Dr Thomas Laepple, compared the Greenland data with that from sediments collected in several ocean regions around the globe, as well as from ice - core samples gathered in the Antarctic.

The basin is the largest region of marine ice on rocky ground in East Antarctica.

Their instruments are zeroed in on the Amundsen Sea Embayment, a vast region rich in volcanoes, ice shelves and glaciers, some as big as Washington state.

The region's birth in a giant impact must have excavated so much ice from Pluto's surface that watery slush welled up from deeper within, plumping up to form a heavy, planetary - scale bruise beneath the thinner crust.

The more intensive variations during glacial periods are due to the greater difference in temperature between the ice - covered polar regions and the Tropics, which produced a more dynamic exchange of warm and cold air masses.

These particles can build up electric charges faster than the soil can dissipate them and may cause sparking, particularly in the polar cold of permanently shadowed regions — unique lunar sites as cold as minus 240 degrees Celsius and known to contain water ice.

Next summer is expected to be the third in a row with completely ice - free waters above the Arctic Circle, and tourism in the once - remote region is thriving.

While that water could initially come from Earth, it could later come from water ice frozen on asteroids, in shadowed regions of the moon's surface, from possible sources on Mars» two moons, or from Mars itself.

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Five years later, a team of researchers investigated the seafloor species in the region once shadowed by ice.