Sentences with phrase «ice layers causing»

Snow melt and rain will cause many rivers and streams to rise, potentially breaking ice layers causing ice jams and localized flooding with water covered roads, especially in low lying areas and urban and poor drainage areas.

Snow melt and rain will cause many rivers and streams to rise, potentially breaking ice layers causing ice jams and localized flooding -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

Daniel Branton and his colleagues placed carbon nanotubes onto a silicon wafer, cooled it to about -163 °C and sprayed it with water, causing an 80 - nanometre - thick layer of ice to form.

Daniel Branton and his colleagues placed single - walled carbon nanotubes onto a silicon wafer, cooled it to about -163 °C and sprayed it with water, causing an 80 - nanometre - thick layer of ice to form.

When ice starts to form through other means — like frost caused by condensation buildup — the bottom layer kicks into action.

The weight of the upper layers of the ice sheet causes the deep ice to spread, causing the annual ice layers to become thinner and thinner with depth.

To complicate matters further, horizontal movements of the ice above the bedrock can disturb the bottommost ice, causing its annual layers to mix up.

Once the ice melted, driven by a runaway greenhouse effect caused by volcanic eruptions, it formed a freshwater layer up to 2 kilometres thick.

The dark zones look lower than the light - coloured ridges, perhaps because they absorbed more sunlight, causing ices below them to evaporate and the dark layer to sink down.

«The reason for the layering is that global warming in parts of Antarctica is causing land - based ice to melt, adding massive amounts of freshwater to the ocean surface,» said ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science researcher Prof Matthew England an author of the paper.

«If you have a liquid water layer, the additional heat from tidal heating would cause the next adjacent layer of ice to melt.»

Local artifacts in ice core methane records caused by layered bubble trapping and in situ production: a multi-site investigation, Climate of the Past, 12, p. 1061 - 1077.

As this water moves through rocks, it dissolves salt compounds and pushes through fractures in the overlying ice to form reservoirs closer the moon's surface, where it is expelled into space when the outermost layer of the crust cracks open and the resulting depressurization of these reservoirs causes water vapor and ice particles to shoot out in the observed plumes.

The study also revealed that the ice melting that was caused by the storm was the result of heat coming from the stirring of seawater layers below the ice.

Regarding Antarctic sea ice expansion, according to Manabe et al 1991 (Part 1 of this set of papers), the cause is decreased mixing with deeper ocean layers, not increased as stated in the opening post.

Causes in the real world tend to come in layers, and there is an underlying 1,500 - year cycle in North Atlantic ice rafting that goes back 100,000 years, in both our warm period and the antecedent ice age.

Precipitation: increased freshwater / iceberg flux cools ocean mixed layer, increases sea ice area, causing increase of precipitation that falls before it reaches Antarctica, adding to ocean surface freshening and reducing ice sheet growth.

To summarise the arguments presented so far concerning ice - loss in the arctic basin, at least four mechanisms must be recognised: (i) a momentum - induced slowing of winter ice formation, (ii) upward heat - flux from anomalously warm Atlantic water through the surface low ‐ salinity layer below the ice, (iii) wind patterns that cause the export of anomalous amounts of drift ice through the Fram Straits and disperse pack - ice in the western basin and (iv) the anomalous flux of warm Bering Sea water into the eastern Arctic of the mid 1990s.

And Chris Fogwill, senior research associate at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, Australia, who led the study, says: «The reason for the layering is that global warming in parts of Antarctica is causing land - based ice to melt, adding massive amounts of cool freshwater to the ocean surface.

So every Arctic summer we should ship lots of vegetable matter from around the world into permafrost zones, spread it around in a very thin layer, and then during winter cause regional cooling with judicious release of aerosols, so as to form just enough new ice to trap that summer's carbon layer.

In addition, there is a 45 - metre -(147.6 - foot --RRB- thick layer of manganese ore in the Kalahari Desert with an age corresponding to the end of the 2.4 billion - year «Snowball Earth» period; its deposition is thought to have been caused by rapid and massive changes in global climate as the worldwide covering of ice melted.