Sentences with phrase «ice on land in»

You get ocean effect snowfall from a warm thawed ocean and that rebuilds ice on land in Greenland and on the high mountain glaciers.

The water in the oceans that is currently available to put ice on land in mid-latitudes is not enough to support another major ice age.

Consensus Climate Theory puts ice on land in the cold times when the oceans are cold and frozen and when there is no source for moisture to produce snowfall.

Not exact matches

«It was just something that I was making in my kitchen because I didn't like sugar,» says Woolverton, whose company, Halo Top Creamery, has landed at No. 5 on Inc.'s 2017 list of the fastest - growing private companies in the U.S. «It wasn't until later, when I got an actual $ 20 ice cream maker, that I was like, «Oh, wow, there's something here.»»

Since its launch in 1982, Mr. Brown coffee has gone on to dominate the canned iced coffee market in the land of its birth.

The sports facility, to be built on Park District - owned land at Plainfield and Clarendon Hills Roads, would include an ice rink, multipurpose room, indoor fieldhouse for soccer or in - line hockey, concession area, pro shop and locker rooms.

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.

And researchers are not yet certain polar bears — which on ice lie in wait for, rather than chase after, prey — can do so on land.

The absence of swell or wave motion in a fresh breeze is a sign that there is land or ice on the weather side.

In the mid-1980s all our flights were survey flights: we had 12 hours in the air once we left our base in southern Chile, so we had plenty of time to chat with the pilots about making a forced landing on the ice shelveIn the mid-1980s all our flights were survey flights: we had 12 hours in the air once we left our base in southern Chile, so we had plenty of time to chat with the pilots about making a forced landing on the ice shelvein the air once we left our base in southern Chile, so we had plenty of time to chat with the pilots about making a forced landing on the ice shelvein southern Chile, so we had plenty of time to chat with the pilots about making a forced landing on the ice shelves.

But to hail this transformation as unprecedented is to do our mustachioed ancestors a disservice — an act of wanton disrespect made only more unseemly when one considers that they were born and lived and went to their graves without ever once waking up on a birthday morning, scraping the ice off their laptops, and receiving salutations from a distant land in the form of an abysmal, not - quite - functioning cartoon of chickens — one year it was elephants — either attempting, or pretending, to dance.

During ice ages, which are mainly driven by rhythmic variations in Earth's orbit and spin that alter sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere, growing ice caps and glaciers trap so much frozen water on land that sea levels can drop a hundred meters or more.

One «growing phenomenon in the Arctic [is] polar bears foraging on land as their primary habitat, sea ice, retreats,» Kintisch writes, which makes field work even more dangerous, and difficult, than it would be otherwise.

This expedition landed on the southwestern confines of the Ross Sea, and, by its explorations, showed that the great ice barrier is in reality the front of an enormous ice field or glacier, mainly floating on the surface of an extended bay or sea, and fed by glaciers coming down from the elevated land on the westerly side and probably also on the eastern.

Capt. Roald Amundsen, the discoverer of the Northwest Passage, left Norway in June, 1910, in the «Fram,» seemingly with the intention of sailing around Cape Horn, however, he sailed to the westward across the South Pacific, and made a landing at whale Bay on the ice sheet covering Ross Sea.

The advancing ice could also bury some agricultural lands and make the planet an overall colder place, «likely reducing the total amount of habitable area on Earth,» Haqq - Misra wrote in a paper laying out the thought experiment.

For instance, when the Phoenix spacecraft landed on Mars in 2008, it kicked up enough dust to reveal water ice — a surprise to its builders, who hadn't thought that the lander's relatively weak rocket engines could have moved so much material.

«It's hard to discern an ice sheet's cycles on land because it destroys the evidence,» she says, «but it dumps that evidence in the oceans, archived in layers on the bottom.»

It could scan Mars and map out subsurface pockets of water ice and even assist in X-marking a safe and sound landing zone for astronauts where they can draw on water for oxygen - sustaining needs as well as for concocting rocket fuel.

Analyzing and dating these rocks, they found that ocean water began to appear on the ridge's land - facing side in 1945, even as the ice sheet remained grounded on the ridge's summit, scientists report online today in Nature.

On the other hand, wind turbines also have a habit of icing up and, occasionally, throwing ice under those kinds of frost conditions, says Kathryn McCullough, whose family owns a wind farm and an agricultural farm on the same land in OregoOn the other hand, wind turbines also have a habit of icing up and, occasionally, throwing ice under those kinds of frost conditions, says Kathryn McCullough, whose family owns a wind farm and an agricultural farm on the same land in Oregoon the same land in Oregon.

One of them broke apart at an altitude of about 18 kilometres, the other sailed on to eventually land in Lake Chebarkul, leaving a 7 - metre - wide hole in the ice.

The material on Amazon forest dieback was in the IPCC assessment as were the numbers on recent sea level (thought the IPCC did not use the information on recent contributions from land ice in their estimate for 21st century warming.)

Losing those shelves could presage the melting of their parent ice sheets on land — which could lead to a dramatic rise in sea level.

Between 2002 and 2007, satellite measurements showed that ice from the glacier's grounding line, the spot where it transitions from being on the land to in the sea, thinned at a rate of 1.2 meters to 6 meters per year.

Steve: And another factor you mention in the article is 30 percent of the land on the Earth that isn't covered with ice is used for grazing livestock and growing animal feed.

Because ice on airplane wings can add weight and decrease lift, making takeoffs and landings more dangerous, airplanes are sprayed with antifreeze prior to departure in wintry weather.

Worse still, in places like west Antarctica, ice sheets rest on land that is below sea level, and so could be exposed directly to warm water.

«Right now, pregnant females foraging offshore in summer must wait up to a month longer than they did just 10 years ago for new sea ice to form so they can travel to denning areas on land,» says Steve Amstrup of the USGS.

-- melting of land ice in Greenland and the Antarctic; melting of glaciers in the Himalaya and Alaska; or melting of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean.

He and UA geologist Gregory Leonard called on colleagues in the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) network that Kargel led to help identify affected areas by using satellite imagery.

Some of this material becomes trapped in Arctic ice and some, landing on beaches, can even turn into rocks made of plastic.

Loss of ice would mean more mercury in the air would land directly on water, instead of bouncing back as a gas.

Starting next week, NASA's Operation IceBridge, an airborne survey of polar ice, will be carrying science flights over sea ice in the Arctic, to help validate satellite readings and provide insight into the impact of the summer melt season on land and sea ice.

On land, the capacity of animals to carry nutrients away from concentrated «hotspots,» the team writes, has plummeted to eight percent of what it was in the past — before the extinction of some 150 species of mammal «megafauna» at the end of the last ice age.

«Loss of sea ice has resulted in walrus hauling out on land in Alaska and Russia in massive numbers — these land haul outs result in trampling of their young,» Laidre said.

In 1995, the ship featured as a rusty tanker in Kevin Costner's film Waterworld, captained by a deranged pirate bent on locating the last bit of land on a world where climate change has melted the ice capIn 1995, the ship featured as a rusty tanker in Kevin Costner's film Waterworld, captained by a deranged pirate bent on locating the last bit of land on a world where climate change has melted the ice capin Kevin Costner's film Waterworld, captained by a deranged pirate bent on locating the last bit of land on a world where climate change has melted the ice caps.

The main argument of the Doubting Thomases has always been that the chemical signs of fossil life in Martian meteorites are really terrestrial contaminants; perhaps microbe - laden water seeped into cracks in the rocks after they landed on the Antarctic ice.

Current estimates of sea - level rise by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change consider only the effect of melting ice sheets, thermal expansion and anthropogenic intervention in water storage on land.

«Based on the UN climate panel's report on sea level rise, supplemented with an expert elicitation about the melting of the ice sheets, for example, how fast the ice on Greenland and Antarctica will melt while considering the regional changes in the gravitational field and land uplift, we have calculated how much the sea will rise in Northern Europe,» explains Aslak Grinsted.

One of the few perpetually ice - free regions in Antarctica, the McMurdo Dry Valleys are home to some of the coldest and driest exposed land on Earth.

Exactly how sea - ice decline might affect species interactions in this and other types of food webs on land in the Arctic is a question that deserves greater attention,» Post said.

Eric Post, a Penn State University professor of biology, and Jeffrey Kerby, a Penn State graduate student, have linked the melting of Arctic sea ice with changes in the timing of plant growth on land, which in turn is associated with lower production of calves by caribou in the area.

But the large volumes of data on Arctic sea and land ice that IceBridge has collected during its nine years of operations there have also enabled scientific discoveries ranging from the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed to improvements in snowfall accumulation models for all of Greenlaice that IceBridge has collected during its nine years of operations there have also enabled scientific discoveries ranging from the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed to improvements in snowfall accumulation models for all of GreenlaIce Sheet are thawed to improvements in snowfall accumulation models for all of Greenland.

It's an «excellent preliminary study,» that could help mission controllers zero in on landing sites for future missions that feature, say, surface ice of sufficient depth, says astrobiologist Andrew Steele of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C..

From an altitude of just over 700 km, CryoSat will precisely monitor changes in the thickness of sea ice and variations in the thickness of the ice sheets on land.

Again, Monckton must surely know full well that for the last 25 - 30 years satellite temperature measurement of sea and land surface have replaced terrestrial temperature station measurements in many cases since these give a much greater coverage (70 % of the surface of the Earth is water... it's difficult to put weather stations on top of ice sheets etc.!)

Using satellite measurements from the NASA / German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), the researchers measured ice loss in all of Earth's land ice between 2003 and 2010, with particular emphasis on glaciers and ice caps outside of Greenland and Antarctica.

Here we show that the East Greenland Ice Sheet existed over the past 7.5 million years, as indicated by beryllium and aluminum isotopes (10Be and 26Al) in quartz sand removed by deep, ongoing glacial erosion on land and deposited offshore in the marine sedimentary record.

«This deposit is probably more accessible than most water ice on Mars, because it is at a relatively low latitude and it lies in a flat, smooth area where landing a spacecraft would be easier than at some of the other areas with buried ice,» researcher Jack Holt of the University of Texas said in a statement.