Sentences with phrase «ice thickness on»

Normal ice thickness on a small pond is 4 ″, last four winters 12 ″ +, added heater.

Coby, Here is good site regarding ice thickness on Hudson Bay.

«Our new method not only provides an estimate of the ice volume, but allows calculating local ice thickness on a fine grid for each of the 200,000 glaciers worldwide,» he said.

Some single - column model studies reveal bifurcation in the transition to seasonally ice - free conditions (Abbot et al., 2011; Merryfield et al., 2008; Flato and Brown, 1996) but others do not, due to the stabilizing effects of ice thickness on ice growth (Eisenman and Wettlaufer, 2009).

In this study, we conduct sensitivity experiments to isolate the role of sea ice thickness on the atmospheric circulation.

Instead, we are interested in isolating the role of sea ice thickness on the atmosphere and quantifying its contribution compared to sea ice concentration.

Kids can even create their own data visualization by coloring in a map showing ice thickness on Greenland.

A comparison of the modeled ice thickness on 1 June 2007, 2008, and 2009, and the initial ice thickness on 28 May 2010 reveals considerably larger ice thickness mainly in the East Siberian Sea, north of the East Siberian Sea, and in the vicinity of the North Pole in 2010 compared to 2007 — 2009.

A loss of 4.2 meters of ice thickness on glaciers with an estimated mean thickness of 30 - 50 meters (Post et al., 1971) is significant.

Ship - based observations from the NASA Icescape cruise with USCG Healy (Perovich and Polashenski) indicate that the ice cover in the Chukchi Sea is in an advanced state of melt with melt ponds melted through in many areas and ice thicknesses on the order of 1m (Figure 3).

Not exact matches

Set the ice cream on one wafer press down gently with a second wafer to spread the ice cream over the whole wafer to a thickness of about 1/2 -3 / 4 inch.

Clean Eating Green Smoothie Credit @dashingdish (check out her blog) 2 cups Fresh spinach 1/4 medium Banana 1/4 cup Strawberries, diced (about 3 - 4 berries) 1/2 cup Low fat cottage cheese 1 1/4 cup Vanilla or plain protein powder (I use Designer Whey, which is 100 calories per scoop) 1 - 3 pkts Packets of stevia or sweetener of choice (or to taste) 5 - 10 Ice cubes (more or less depending on how thick you like it) 1/2 -1 cup Water (again, alter according to desired thickness of shake) 1 You can not taste the cottage cheese at all, it makes for a creamy protein packed shake!

1/2 cup Steel Cut Oats 2 Tbsp Flax Seed 2 Tbsp Brewer's Yeast 1 1/2 cups Almond Milk Ice (Amount varies, add 2 - 4 cups based on your preferred thickness.

Morris uses the information she gathers on these trips to check the accuracy of data collected by a European satellite, Cryosat - 2, that tracks changes in the thickness of polar ice — information that tells scientists how quickly that ice is thawing.

Researchers from Norway and China have collaborated on developing an autonomous buoy with instruments that can more precisely measure the optical properties of Arctic sea ice while also taking measurements of ice thickness and temperature.

In addition to the thickness of the snow cover on top of the sea ice, the buoys also measure the air temperature and air pressure.

More under - ice AUV surveys could calibrate satellite measurements of ice thickness, allowing researchers a better understanding of what is really going on around the frozen continent.

Hu's experiments, for example, show everything from the thickness of ice as it flows over a wing, the heat transfer of individual water droplets as they freeze, the irregular speed of freezing droplets on a wing or blade and the finger - like patterns of ice formation.

While bristling over the personal nature of Greenberg's attack, he insists that he is far from dogmatic on the issue of ice thickness.

These flights also provided National Ice Center scientists on the Polar Star with aerial footage they evaluated along with satellite imagery to help better understand ice thickness, age and other conditioIce Center scientists on the Polar Star with aerial footage they evaluated along with satellite imagery to help better understand ice thickness, age and other conditioice thickness, age and other conditions.

Ice originating from the Arctic Ocean showed a mean thickness of more than three metres on average.

This process of transforming the fluffy snow into hard ice is physical and both the thickness and the movement of the water molecules are dependent on the temperature.

Using all available geologic, tectonic and geothermal heat flux data for Greenland — along with geothermal heat flux data from around the globe — the team deployed a machine learning approach that predicts geothermal heat flux values under the ice sheet throughout Greenland based on 22 geologic variables such as bedrock topography, crustal thickness, magnetic anomalies, rock types and proximity to features like trenches, ridges, young rifts, volcanoes and hot spots.

Many older models of Greenland assumed that its massive ice sheet sat on bedrock that was relatively flat, even though scientists did not know the full thickness of the ice.

If everything goes according to plan, the radar will be turned on and will start to collect data on the thickness of glaciers and ice sheets just three days post-launch.

On Titan, the largest features may be made by changes in the thickness of its ice shell due to tidal forces from Saturn.

«At Kima'Kho, we were able to map a passage zone in pyroclastic deposits left by the earliest explosive phase of eruption, allowing for more accurate forensic recovery of paleo - lake levels through time and better estimates of paleo - ice thicknesses,» says UBC volcanologist James K Russell, lead author on the paper published this week in Nature Communications.

Combining the speed and thickness measurements allowed the scientists to determine how much ice was flowing into the ocean, while the climate model allowed them to estimate how much snow was falling on the ice sheet.

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.

Unlike the Arctic, there is no long - term submarine record of ice thickness — but with the warming Southern Ocean, it seems likely that that has been going on as well.

One example offered in their paper is typical: On Oct 3, 2015, an NSF / NCAR research aircraft took off from southern Chile and flew south to measure the thickness of the Antarctic ice shelf.

«Our model predicts different fracture patterns on the surface of Charon depending on the thickness of its surface ice, the structure of the moon's interior and how easily it deforms, and how its orbit evolved,» adds Rhoden.

First, we expect the ice thickness distribution in April 30 from redistribution (divergence / convergence) of sea ice during December and April, based on the daily ice velocity data.

This depends on the thickness of the ice and the temperature of the ice.

Ten to twenty centimeters of SLR will have the same effect on the grounding line as one to two meters of ice thickness reduction.

Stable grounding lines can not be established on these reverse bed slopes1, because ice thickness is a key factor in controlling ice flux across the grounding line.

Regarding my # 74: On sea ice thickness, here is an unreviewed but sensible discussion / analysis of Arctic sea ice volume and thickness as modeled by PIOMAS.

Once in the ice shelf cavity we had neither detailed information on the thickness of the ice, nor the depth of the water.»

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.

The ice sheet's thickness makes its temperature much more resistant to change than the six inches of snow that might fall on your driveway during a winter snowstorm.

It's thickness and length, and iconic hood makes it the perfect cold weather warmer, plus with the addition of a sheepskin lining is often the icing on the cake.

However, sea ice then grows very rapidly, since the growth rate for thin ice is much higher than for thick ice, which acts as a negative feedback on thickness during the growth season (Bitz and Roe, 2004; Notz, 2009).

«He has pioneered the use of AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles) to measure under - ice topography and has worked with the Royal Navy since the 1970s in carrying out ice thickness measurement work from Navy submarines on Arctic deployments.»

So unless the perimeter of the Greenland ice sheet is the exact same thickness as the entire ice sheet (say 3 km on average), an area loss there, of 15 %, will produce a much smaller % volume loss, than say if this area loss were smack dab in the middle of the Greenland ice sheet.

Evaluation does not only mean showing that PIOMAS says something useful but also establishes the error bars on the estimated ice thickness.

So what we need is detailed topo maps of the bed and thickness of the GIS, and to work out a map of the «net buoyancy», or some such (i.e. total ice area density subtracted from the area density of a hypothetical column of water resting on the bed and extending up to sea level).

[Response: The thickness of the greenland ice sheet is ~ 2000 m on average (don't quote me, that's a ballpark estimate).

And you are correct that it depends on the thickness of the ice and the depression below sea level.

why not a sawtooth, characteristic of a relaxation oscillator, where something (voltage on a capacitor, ice sheet thickness) accumulates until it reaches a tipping point (neon lamp trigger voltage, basal warming), then suddenly the state changes?

In fact, with less ice resting on the solid earth, then the mass and friction will decrease, speeding the flow of ice and reducing its thickness.