Sentences with phrase «ice stream within»
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Subglacial Lake Mercer lies below the confluence of the Whillans and Mercer ice streams, making its hydrology distinct within the region.
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The discovery is significant in relation to the mechanism for rapid movement of the ice streams, which are huge, fast - flowing ice currents within the slow - moving ice sheet that covers most of Antarctica.
When, perhaps within only a few years, the Arctic Ocean switches fully to seasonal ice conditions, the jet streams will almost inevitably take up new patterns of behavior, leading to weather that is quite different from what our farmers need to feed the population.