Sentences with phrase «ice surface»

Very little happening in summer itself (as expected) as the melting ice surface and heat sensible heat gain in the mixed layer limit the surface air temperature change.

Can someone confirm that my reasoning is correct, and give me an idea of when the sudden change in 2008 ice surface area is likely to occur?

This change — reducing the amount of white, reflective ice surface — led to further warmth, in a feedback effect.

At FMI algorithms and procedures have been developed for producing daily thin ice thickness (< 0.5 m) charts for the Arctic in wintertime based on ice surface temperature which is retrieved from the thermal infrared data of the MODIS spectrometer.

At FMI algorithms and procedures have been developed for producing daily thin ice thickness (< 0.5 m) charts for the Arctic in wintertime based on ice surface temperature which is retrieved from the thermal infrared data of the MODIS spectrometer.

Through observing the rising and falling of ice surface elevation, researchers have found that 124 of these lakes fill and drain on timescales of months to years.

Algae grow on other ice surfaces in areas such as the Himalayas, where they reside on water - producing glaciers.

Perhaps this soot found its way onto white ice surfaces and darkened them causes melting.

If their infilling data is depending on the sea ice surface for instance it could create that.

Morison and Untersteiner (University of Washington); 5.6 Million Square Kilometers; Heuristic Estimate is based on recent observations, including the previous winter Arctic Oscillation (AO), ice concentrations observed during North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO) hydro surveys, atmospheric and ice surface conditions observed with NPEO buoys and Web Cams, and recent ice trajectories.

For nearly 40 years Frank J. Zamboni's funny - looking invention has been refinishing ice surfaces all over the world

The relatively high amount of black carbon measured in one glacial stream in Greenland may also suggest that the particles can be transported locally across ice surfaces through melt processes.

View in article Furthermore, other ice surface organisms, such as algae (Yallop et al., 2012; Lutz et al., 2014), will likely significantly increase the overall biologically - induced melt potential calculated for cryoconite cyanobacteria in this study.

The no CHW and surface CHW simulations significantly underestimate observed ice surface velocities in both epochs.

«This is at odds with the flat ice surface that we were driving across - without these measurements we would never have known it was there.»

Has anybody considered that it might be caused by a flat or even convex ice surface reflecting the sun, like an iridium flare?

The plate - tectonic uplift of Tibet past the snowline has led to an approximately 2.4 million km ² ice surface with a 70 percent greater albedo than the bare land surface.

The event drew stars like Tampa Bay Lightning forward Steven Stamkos and Montreal Canadiens sharpshooter Mike Cammalleri, who, alongside a group of the league's most promising prospects, all paid for the opportunity to press iron, grunt through excruciating exercises and run skating drills on the storied ice surface at Toronto's St. Michael's College School Arena.

We now have five ice surfaces within a five - block area and there's no concern on the part of any of the entities that it might be too much, might reach saturation,» Higgins said.

Life beneath Europa's thick ice surface will be difficult to detect, but polar research suggests that other opportunities to find life may exist.

The apparent absence of lakes in Greenland had previously been explained by the fact that steeper ice surface in Greenland leads to any water below the ice being «squeezed out» to the margin.

Unlike «snow ice,» which forms when melting snow refreezes on an existing ice surface, congelation ice contains very few bubbles.

But DeConto says that Hindmarsh's work predicts future ice loss based on what's happened so far, and doesn't take into account processes like ice surface melt that haven't kicked in yet.

Satellite observations from NASA's ICESat - 1, which measures how much ice surfaces are rising or falling over time, revealed that Totten Glacier was thinning rapidly.

The Super Mario All - Stars versions of Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels would retroactively decorate some levels with fallen snow, but this world came several years beforehand, and introduced a hazard that would not be found in its remade predecessors: The slippery ice surface, which made getting solid footing extra-treacherous.

If I assume surface melting of 1M / year over the interior, say 500e3 KM ** 2 due to warmer climate & darker ice surface (old wet ice versus clean dry snow) that would contribute 1.4 mm / year to sea levels.

Lead author Johnson's original idea had been to collect rocks from lower elevations and right next to the current day ice surface.

This estimate does not include the semi-direct effect or the BC impact on snow and ice surface albedo (see Sections 2.5.4 and 2.8.5.6)

As reported in Remote Sensing of Environment, from 1953 to 2010, the average rate of ice surface loss was 18 centimeters (7.1 inches) per year.

Obtain Laser Profiles of surface elevation to obtain sea ice freeboard and sea ice surface variability (CULPIS - X)

Stibal and his colleagues used portable spectrometers and albedometers to measure the reflectivity spectrum of the bare ice surface each day.

Validation of Metop - AVHRR and Metop - IASI Ice Surface Temperature products in the Southern hemisphere

High - latitude ocean and sea ice surface fluxes: challenges for climate research.

The camera was about 1.5 m above the April ice surface.

[Response: The effect on the data actually used by Steig et al for the results featured in the paper (the satellite - derived ice surface temperature estimates) is precisely zero.

The caveat to its applicability is that there was a large abedo feedback at the time and we have less ice surface area today.

The AR5 states that Arctic sea ice surface extent has decreased by 0.17 to 0.2 million square miles per decade, changes considered unprecedented in at least the last 1,450 years.

Quantitative analysis has evidenced the acceleration system of melting ice: dark water surfaces absorb more heat than white ice surfaces, thus melting ice and making more water surfaces in the Arctic Ocean.

Morison and Untersteiner (University of Washington); 5.6 Million Square Kilometers; Heuristic Estimate is unchanged from last month and is based on the previous winter Arctic Oscillation (AO), ice concentrations observed during North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO) hydro surveys, atmospheric and ice surface conditions observed with NPEO buoys and Web Cams, and recent ice trajectories.