Sentences with phrase «ice island»

Now, scientists have released a detailed map showing what the vast ice island would look like if it shed all of its ice.

MODIS image of the Nares Strait and Petermann ice island taken on 5 August 2010.

In the relatively warmer southern climes, the Ayles Ice Island split in two on September 4, satellite images show.

On Aug. - 14, 1946 airmen of the 46th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron of the US Air Force discovered a moving ice islands with an area of about 200 square that was kept secret until Nov. - 1950 (Koenig et al, 1950).

Two years later another large 2 - Manhattan sized ice island formed from the same glacier, but this time we were better prepared and people world - wide went directly to our data, thoughts, and stories when this blog was sourced in news papers in France, Germany, and China.

In both 2010 and 2012 Manhattan - sized ice islands formed when a lateral crack grew and reached the central channel.

The establishment of military weather stations and airfields in the high Arctic coincided with the discovery of massive ice islands drifting freely in the Arctic Ocean.

This worries me, but three features suggest a new ice island to form soon:

Lakes with fully - frozen surfaces are another matter — creating ice islands on their surface requires a bit more ingenuity (or at least: labor and machinery).

Amorphous water ice islands (the dark areas in the photos) change shape and spread over the substrate like liquid, which is indicated by the blurring of the images.

The giant ice island is 46 square miles (120 square kilometers), and separated from the terminus of the Petermann Glacier, one of Greenland's largest.

Ice islands come off Antarctica, too, and they're even bigger: «In the Arctic, we compare them to Manhattan Island,» Mueller said.

The series, titled Ice Islands, highlights the beauty of ice's natural forms.

The ice bridge formed in early December and Gudmansen suggests that the location of the bridge in 2013 may have been influenced by ice islands that calved from the Petermann Glacier in August of 2012.

Scientists had expected the originally 26 - square - mile (66 - square - kilometer) iceberg to remain in the Arctic Ocean, rotating with the currents, as other ice islands have done in the past.

Gudmandsen notes that the location of the arch this year is ~ 100 km north of its normal location and that this is likely the result of a large ice island that grounded in the area.

In 2010 a large 4 - times Manhattan - sized ice islands broke off and people wanted to know if global warming was to blame.

I was struck by Russian reports from the 1950's at The Scott Polar institute in Cambridge when staff at the floating research stations commented about using Wellington boots in order to walk around the station, and how little dry ice islands eventually formed by the end of the summer surrounded by water on top of ice.»

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Now, a year later, satellite imagery reveals that the Petermann Ice Island — a Manhattan - size chunk of that ice sheet — is floating in Canadian waters and heading toward the fragmented coastline of Newfoundland.

On the very weak basis that if it's to do with government then it's related to law, I'm bringing the Canadian Ice Service to your attention, an agency I'd not heard of until I read about it in a recent BBC story about Ayles Ice Island, a collosal piece of our frozen north the size of Manhattan that's been floating further and further away from its Ellesmere Island home since it calved two years ago.

And down the coast from Goose Cove, a Port Hope Simpson crab fisherman captured some footage of a smaller, almost five - kilometer - long chunk of the ice island floating in open waters.

Gene Patey captured this jarring image of a piece of the towering iceberg looming over the idyllic - looking hamlet of Goose Cove, although NASA's Earth Observatory predicted that the ice island would most likely get grounded on the shallow sea floor before it could strike land.

Canadian scientists have been forced to abandon an ice island they have used since 1983 to chart the Arctic Ocean.

It's the Ice Island, from Adventure Island 2!

Tagged climate change, glaciers, GPS, Greenland, ice island, Labrador, laser altimeter, Nares Strait, Newfoundland, oceanography, Petermann, tides

Ellesmere Island ice shelves and ice islands.

Most of these ice islands originated from rapidly disintegrating ice shelves to the north of Ellesmere island (Jeffries, 1992; Copland 2007), however, the first historical description of an ice islands from Petermann Gletscher came from Franz Boas in 1883 who established a German station in Cumberland Sound at 65 N latitude and 65 W longitude as part of the first Polar Year.

Aided by record low Arctic sea ice levels this past summer, the Ayles Ice Island had drifted unusually far south.

Sea ice normally blocks passage from the Arctic Ocean to the Queen Elizabeth Islands, but this summer's melt cleared the way for the Ayles Ice Island.

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

On 16 July 2012 there was a significant calving event on the Peterman glacier that resulted in an ice island with an area of approximately 130 square kilometres (Figure 5).

Tagged Arctic Ocean, climate, freshwater, ice island, Nares Strait, oceanography, Petermann, sea level rise

The ice bridge started to break up the first week in July; ice is breaking off south of the ice island and is drifting south (Figure 8).

Posted in Global Warming, Greenland, Ice Arch, Ice Cover, Ice Island, Nares Strait 2012, Oceanography, Petermann Glacier

The perimeters of the ice shelves in 2007 - 2008, excluding ice rises and ice islands, are shown by thin black lines.

Icebergs come in all shapes and sizes, from ice - cube - sized chunks to ice islands the size of a small country.

The researchers hope the ducks will be show up in the waters of Baffin Bay or around there and give them clues to how water moves through these huge floating ice islands.

There is also ice, lots of sea icebergs, and ice islands that we had to navigate.

«Today I was caught out on the thin ice with my feet between two ice islands.

In the near term, the ice island could block the southward flux of sea ice through Nares Strait.

The ice island (280 km2) will likely enter Nares Strait and slowly drift south into Baffin Bay and Newfoundland waters as it decays.