Sentences with phrase «ice models which»

He is interested in developing next - generation sea ice models which capture anisotropic nature of ice dynamics / mechanics and explicitly simulate both ice thickness distribution and floe size distribution jointly.

Not exact matches

If we use the logically odd phrase «Word of God» to describe the Bible, with «Word» as the model and «of God» as the qualifier, so that we speak of «hearing» God's Word, we mean that if we follow the verbal pattern formed by the words of scripture, we may find ourselves in a situation in which a disclosure occurs; the «light dawns» or the «ice breaks.»

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

This gives confidence in the predictions of the current generation of ice - sheet models which are used to forecast future ice loss from Antarctica and resulting sea - level rise.»

«A novel aspect is the modelling of the reciprocal contact between blocks of ice, which promises benefits in icebreaker development, among others.

Due to the real «go on ice» researchers receive the unique scientific data, which is then used in construction of mathematical models among them are integral characteristics of the processes (the diameter and depth of explosive lanes, etc.).

The city is not out of the woods, though, warns Aimée Slangen of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, whose own model suggests that Antarctica could lose a lot of ice, which would produce an above - average rise throughout the northern hemisphere.

However, a number of studies have indicated that climate models underestimate the loss of Arctic sea ice, which is why the models might not be the most suitable tools to quantify the future evolution of the ice cover.

Using computer modeling to interpret images from NASA's Galileo satellite, Pappalardo and Barr demonstrated that acnelike markings on Europa's surface are probably bits of ice containing minerals such as chloride salts and sulfuric acid, which lower the melting point so the material can rise from deep below.

Untersee is a good model for Mars, he says, because it is supplied by subglacial melt — water that accumulates at the bottom of an ice pile — rather than from surface melting, which does not occur on Mars.

White and his colleagues are now trying to understand what types of conditions could bridge the standard model simulations with the simulations in which ice - free conditions in the Arctic are imposed.

In order to reconcile the different constraints, the researchers propose a new model in which the top two hundred meters of the ice shell acts like an elastic shell.

In addition, both studies have yielded valuable data that can be integrated into ecosystem models — which are in turn essential to forecasts of how the retreat of sea ice will affect the Arctic ecosystem.

This past spring the Coast Guard, which has not built a heavy polar vessel in four decades, took a preliminary but crucial step toward expanding its fleet by testing ship models at one of the world's largest ice - tank facilities, located in Canada.

Surprise find The team's actual mission was to survey ocean currents near the Ross Ice Shelf, a slab of ice extending more than 600 miles (970 kilometers) northward from the grounding zone of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Ross Sea, to model the behavior of a drill string, a length of pipe extending to the seafloor which delivers drilling fluids and retrieves sediment samplIce Shelf, a slab of ice extending more than 600 miles (970 kilometers) northward from the grounding zone of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Ross Sea, to model the behavior of a drill string, a length of pipe extending to the seafloor which delivers drilling fluids and retrieves sediment samplice extending more than 600 miles (970 kilometers) northward from the grounding zone of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Ross Sea, to model the behavior of a drill string, a length of pipe extending to the seafloor which delivers drilling fluids and retrieves sediment samplIce Sheet into the Ross Sea, to model the behavior of a drill string, a length of pipe extending to the seafloor which delivers drilling fluids and retrieves sediment samples.

He says previous predictive models of Greenland's ice loss did not adequately take into account the faster movement of its southern glaciers, which is accelerating the amount of ice entering the ocean: «Greenland is probably going to contribute more to sea level rise, and faster than predicted by these models.»

But the models also suggest that the scheme could go too far: Adding excess sulfur could increase ice in Antarctica, «overcompensating» for warming, says Rasch, which could affect ecosystems and the global ocean - atmosphere system in a myriad of ways that scientists haven't studied.

The GRIP ice core is a unique archive of past climate and atmospheric chemistry which will improve climate models.

Dr Ian Joughin at the University of Washington, author of a recent study simulating future Antarctic ice sheet losses added: «This study does a nice job of revealing the strong thinning along the Amundsen Coast, which is consistent with theory and models indicating this region is in the early stages of collapse.»

The difference could point to a problem with the models, which attempt to account for effects such as the loss of glaciers and ice caps and the fact that a warming ocean takes up more space.

The consequences of global sea level rise could be even scarier than the worst - case scenarios predicted by the dominant climate models, which don't fully account for the fast breakup of ice sheets and glaciers, NASA scientists said today (Aug. 26) at a press briefing.

The paleoclimate data, which included mainly changes in the oxygen isotopes of the calcium carbonate deposits, were then compared to similar records from other caves, ice cores, and sediment records as well as model predictions for water availability in the Middle East and west central Asia today and into the future.

The model is also applicable for describing how water droplets collide with aircraft and form ice, which is a safety hazard.

Kuhn, from Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute, added, «This gives confidence in the predictions of the current generation of ice sheet models which are used to forecast future ice loss from Antarctica and resulting sea - level rise.»

For the new study, Thomas Rackow and his colleagues fed actual position and size data of 6,912 Antarctic icebergs into the Finite Element Sea Ice - Ocean Model FESOM, which they combined with a dynamic - thermodynamic iceberg model (both of which were developed at the Model FESOM, which they combined with a dynamic - thermodynamic iceberg model (both of which were developed at the model (both of which were developed at the AWI).

Concerning sea ice: it does give a strong positive feedback which is included in all climate models.

All these observations will be combined to improve climate models, which will provide an estimate of present - day and future surface melt on the East Antarctic ice shelves.

Huybers (Quaternary Science Reviews, 26, 37) has proposed a simple model in which deglaciation is triggered when the obliquity cycle is high, and when ice mass is sufficiently high.

These simulations employ the sea - ice model of Briegleb et al., 2004, which incorporate the albedo data collected during the SHEBA experiment.

Computational models that simulate the climate such as CAM5, which is the atmosphere component of the Community Earth System Model used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 5th Assessment, are used to predict future climate changes, such as the Arctic sea ice loss.

In Stage 4, these aerosol models are validated and coupled to global climate models, which also incorporate models of the land surface, ocean, and sea ice.

After obtaining precise ice shelf height data, the researchers used a regional climate model to work out how much of the variability on a year - to - year basis was due to snowfall (which causes ice shelves to grow taller) versus ocean - driven melting (which causes ice shelves to thin from below).

The models vary in a number of different ways, for example: the way in which they break up the world into discrete elements to solve the equations; the representation of the physics of ice flow; the language the code is written in; whether they are solved on one or many computer processors.

This year we received 14 June SIO submissions from dynamical models, of which 3 were from ice - ocean models forced by atmospheric reanalysis or other atmospheric model output and 12 were from fully - coupled general circulation models.

Earth's climate has been shown by a wide range of climate models to be bistable, which means that it can exist in both a frozen state or a warm, ice - free state with the same amount of solar energy.

They got 10 pages in Science, which is a lot, but in it they cover radiation balance, 1D and 3D modelling, climate sensitivity, the main feedbacks (water vapour, lapse rate, clouds, ice - and vegetation albedo); solar and volcanic forcing; the uncertainties of aerosol forcings; and ocean heat uptake.

She has shown, in an ice sheet model with gravitationally self - consistent sea level, there is actually a sea level fall at the grounding line, which acts to stabilize against the marine ice sheet instability.

Indeed, Gore could have used the ice core data to make an additional and stronger point, which is that these data provide a nice independent test of climate sensitivity, which gives a result in excellent agreement with results from models.

Assuming an iron - rich planet with an internal structure like Earth, modelling results for the first discovered super-Earth (GJ 876 d) indicate the existence of a threshold in planetary diameter above which a super-Earth «most certainly» has a high water content (an «ocean planet» or «water world,» where thick layers of water and pressurized ice surround a rocky mantle and core); this threshold was found to be around 24,000 kilometers (or nearly 15,000 miles) in the particular case of GJ 876 d (Valencia et al, 2007).

Experiments of this type are however challenging as ice sheets evolve over multi-millennial timescales, which is beyond the practical integration limit of most Earth system models.

I use the Sno ice cream maker since it has a built - in compressor unlike the Cuisinart models which depend on dumping heat into the bowl to work so they always reach the near hard stage not the soft serve stage before I freeze them.

All models get «ice cube» daytime running lights and a TFT speedometer, which flicks between traditional analogue and a digital display featuring torque and boost gauges.

All - new Drive Mode Selector, which tailors up to eight vehicle attributes for four modes: Snow / Ice, Tour, Sport and — on SS models — Track settings

The fourth recall covers 19,225 Cadillac CTS from the 2013 - 2014 model year for a condition in which the windshield wiper system may become inoperable after a vehicle jump start with wipers active and restricted, such as by ice and snow.

Icing on the cake here is claimed fuel consumption that's just 4.8 L / 100 km for all models except the 81TSI manual (4.9 L / 100 km), which is not far off the discontinued 1.6 - litre diesel's figures, thanks in part to idle - stop and regenerative braking functions.

In that case the same hue is applied to the Q2's trademark C - pillar «blade», which is otherwise Titanium matt grey ($ 350 for the base design variant) or can be had in Ice silver metallic ($ 350 for sport models) or body colour (no cost).

Lenovo did not disclose the purchase price and the date on which we can find the new tablets in stores, but promised that both models will eventually receive Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich after the update packages will be completed.

If you think that your smartphone is one tough cookie, then think again if you are not using the / / www.ubergizmo.com/2014/02/sony-xperia-z2-hands-on/» > Sony Xperia Z2, as that particular model could which was encased in a block of ice continued to work when it was thawed, now how about that when it comes to mainstream longevity?

That's for the 16 GB, HSPA + version of the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich - running Samsung announced last night alongside a 32 GB model which, Clove told us, won't be coming to the UK.

Asking which model is the Best Tablet PC is like asking what flavor of ice cream is best: everyone has their own opinion.