Sentences with phrase «ice levels at»

The thawing process has already started with sea - ice levels at their lowest this summer.

According to the center, global sea ice levels at the end of 2008 were «near or slightly lower than» those of 1979.

While this year the very stongly + AO and NAO has the ice levels at normal levels in those areas but the Barents and Kara Seas have the negative sea ice anomolies while the Bering Sea has a positive anomoly.

Last week, Thompson's colleagues measured the ice levels at survey poles that they had inserted last year; more than a meter of ice had melted in 12 months, out of a total thickness of 20 to 50 meters.

Not exact matches

Warming temperatures have been chipping away at the Antarctic ice and contributing to sea level rise.

But when you compare it to the 7.3 metres (24 feet) that global sea levels are predicted to rise if the entire Greenland Ice Sheet were to melt away all at once... well, it puts things into perspective.

USA Hockey Inc., founded on October 29, 1937, and headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colo., provides the foundation for the sport of ice hockey in America; helps young people become leaders; and connects the game at every level while promoting a lifelong love of the sport.

The use of a nickname, the humorous situation that «breaks the ice» at a stuffy party, swearing which offends the pious because it is close to the logic of the language about God, the use of words with a specialized meaning and enclosed in quotation marks or inverted commas, the discovery of someone's name after an encounter on an impersonal level are incidents which may lead to discernment.

Add in more icing sugar 1/2 cup at a time until you reach the desired sweetness level and consistency.

It is easier to add than to take away, so start by adding 1/2 tsp at a time to the thicker mixture until you get an icing that when it falls back on itself, leaves a trail but eventually levels out.

IDFA and its constituent organizations - Milk Industry Foundation (MIF), National Cheese Institute (NCI), and International Ice Cream Association (IICA)- are member service organizations representing the interests and concerns of the dairy foods processing industry at the federal, state, and local level.

Pour contents into a 8 x 12 ″, or similarly sized, pan / Carefully place in a secure, level spot in the freezer / Freeze for 1 — 2 hours / Remove from freezer and scrape, smash and stir mixture with a fork, breaking into small icey bits / Return to the freezer and repeat this process three more times, every 30 minutes / Granita should be done at this point, coarse bits of ice, about like a snow cone / Place granita in container, cover and freeze until ready to use.

Down at ice level, looking up into the stands at First Niagara Center, the seats, uniformly blue, blur together, curling around the arena like a wave that's reached its peak and is about to descend.

Our outstanding team of instructors is led by David Maley, a former San Jose Shark and Stanley Cup winner who founded Rollin» ice in 1996, as well as Travis Hawkins, a veteran professional roller hockey player who is in high demand as an instructor for youth and adults at all levels.

The closeness continued at the highest levels of the game when NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, NHL Players» Association director Bob Goodenow and International Ice Hockey Federation president Rene Fasel hunkered down last Thursday in a four - man bobsled for a trip down the Olympic course at slap - shot speed.

The tier one teams — ice hockey and basketball at Quinnipiac — get the most publicity, have the biggest market draw, and receive the most substantial funding, with descending levels of funding in tiers two and three.

That must've been what they were working on with the scoreboard down at ice level the other day.

This morning at the St. Paul RiverCenter, the Herb Brooks Foundation assembled a panel of the leaders in the hockey community to discuss issues and solutions surrounding player safety in ice hockey at all levels.

Ice - skating instruction at all levels is offered at the indoor arena in Central Park, 9400 S. Kenton Ave.

State and local youth hockey associations can offer leagues without body checking — often called «recreational» — at all ages, but competition with high school and other elite hockey programs that may promise the potential for advancement to higher levels of ice hockey, which typically sanction body checking, may make this option rare in many communities.

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.

Keeping the ice at the perfect level for the better part of four months requires some 34,348 gallons of water.

The region has played host to competitions sponsored by NCAA Basketball, USA and NCAA Hockey, NCAA Swimming and Diving, ESPN Bassmasters, and the International Ice Hockey Federation as well as countless other tournaments and meets at the scholastic level.

Because the martian air pressure is very low — 100 times lower than at sea level on Earth — ice on Mars does not melt and become liquid when it warms up.

According to the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), an NSF Science and Technology Center led by the University of Kansas, the melt from Greenland's ice sheet contributes to global sea level rise at a rate of 0.52 millimeters annualIce Sheets (CReSIS), an NSF Science and Technology Center led by the University of Kansas, the melt from Greenland's ice sheet contributes to global sea level rise at a rate of 0.52 millimeters annualice sheet contributes to global sea level rise at a rate of 0.52 millimeters annually.

Understanding sea level change in relation to the mass balance of Greenland's and Antarctica's ice sheets is at the heart of the CReSIS mission.

In this study, the research team excavated intertidal beach sediments on the shoreline of Calvert Island, British Columbia, where the sea level was two to three meters lower than it is today at the end of the last ice age.

Lee Kump of Pennsylvania State University in University Park says earlier studies missed the dip because they calculated levels at 10 - million - year intervals and the ice age lasted only half a million years.

The cores reveal that the ice layers became thicker and more frequent beginning in the 1990s, with recent melt levels that are unmatched since at least the year 1550 CE.

«Northern Hemisphere snow cover has decreased and Arctic Sea ice has been at record low levels in the past three years.»

Ice core records show atmospheric methane levels plunged from about 700 parts per billion to just 500 ppb at the time of their extinction.

At the end of the last ice age, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels shot up by nearly 50 per cent.

Researchers at Princeton University analyzed ice cores collected in Greenland and Antarctica to determine levels of atmospheric oxygen over the last 800,000 years.

Scientists from Rice University and Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi's Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies have discovered that Earth's sea level did not rise steadily but rather in sharp, punctuated bursts when the planet's glaciers melted during the period of global warming at the close of the last ice age.

Anthropogenic climate change and resulting sea level rise are now happening much more rapidly than at the transition from the last ice age to the modern global climate.

Levels of CO2 also shift seasonally, changing as leaves drop in fall and ice forms in winter or as animals go through their life cycles, and even daily, rising at night due to temperature changes and algae's inability to photosynthesize at night.

The risk is real: we know that the West Antarctic ice sheet has collapsed many times in the past, raising sea levels at least 3 metres.

«That isn't even close,» Harvard University geophysicist Jerry Mitrovica told attendees yesterday at the annual meeting of AAAS (which publishes Science) in Washington, D.C. «Each ice sheet has its own pattern of sea level rise.»

Even when sea levels were at their lowest, about 22,000 years ago at the height of the last ice age, the islands were likely out of the deer's swimming range.

When the team looked at the overall balance between the radiation upward from the surface of the ice sheet and the radiation both upward and downward from the upper levels of the atmosphere across all infrared wavelengths over the course of a year, they found that in central Antarctica the surface and lower atmosphere, against expectation, actually lose more energy to space if the air contains greenhouse gases, the researchers report online and in a forthcoming Geophysical Research Letters.

In the Dry Valleys below the northwestern slopes of the Transantarctic Mountains, where buried ice never melts and humidity stays at some of the lowest levels seen anywhere on Earth, the world begins to look a lot like Mars.

A recent study by Robert Kopp at Princeton University (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature08686) suggests sea levels were 8 to 9 metres higher than now during the last interglacial, in part due to the west Antarctic ice sheet melting.

This non-floating ice would have an eventual impact on sea levels, but only at a very modest rate.

New research indicates that climate change has triggered an unstoppable decay of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, eventually leading to at least three meters of global sea level rise

Take Holland: It will be much more heavily influenced by Antarctic ice melt than by falling sea levels around Greenland, says Jerry Mitrovica, a geophysicist and sea level modeler at Harvard University.

If both ice sheets melted — a process already underway at an alarming rate in West Antarctica — global sea levels would rise 200 feet.

When parts of the ice melt, liquid water trickles to the base and this can lubricate the underside of the ice sheet, allowing it to slide more quickly into the sea and drive up sea levels at a faster rate.

Cantwell said that the science underway at DOE will be critical to understanding the impacts of the rising greenhouse - gas levels in the atmosphere — from Arctic sea - ice melt to ocean acidification — and maintaining US leadership in clean - energy technologies.

«The rise at the end of the Ice Age and today is about the same [a rise of 100 ppm] and we're going to be well above and beyond,» most likely increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases by hundreds of parts per million from preindustrial levels, Shakun notes.

The ice core data also shows that CO2 and methane levels have been remarkably stable in Antarctica — varying between 300 ppm and 180 ppm — over that entire period and that shifts in levels of these gases took at least 800 years, compared to the roughly 100 years in which humans have increased atmospheric CO2 levels to their present high.