Sentences with phrase «kilometers of ice there»

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«There's potentially hundreds of meters of ice, if not maybe a few kilometers, that may well be quite habitable,» Eicken says.

The outer layer of this hydrosphere is almost entirely frozen, but current models predict that there is an ocean up to 100 kilometers in depth underneath the ice.

When this occurs in ice sheets containing half a million (or more) cubic kilometers of ice; then, there is a sea level rise event.

No kilometers of ice shaved off to cause rebound, although there does appear to have been a fair amount of sea ice loss earlier in the twentieth century, principally prior to 1975.

Today, the National Snow and Ice Data Center announced that the annual summer retreat of Arctic Ocean sea ice had reached a new low for the 33 - year satellite era of careful monitoring (1.58 million square miles, or 4.1 million square kilometers), and there is still another week or two of melting before the typical summer ice minimum occuIce Data Center announced that the annual summer retreat of Arctic Ocean sea ice had reached a new low for the 33 - year satellite era of careful monitoring (1.58 million square miles, or 4.1 million square kilometers), and there is still another week or two of melting before the typical summer ice minimum occuice had reached a new low for the 33 - year satellite era of careful monitoring (1.58 million square miles, or 4.1 million square kilometers), and there is still another week or two of melting before the typical summer ice minimum occuice minimum occurs.

There is no reason whatsoever to expect that similar behavior will be seen at the different poles; a few feet of ice floating on water is not exactly the same as two kilometers of ice piled up on a continent (East Antarctica) nor is either of those much like a kilometer of ice sitting on the sea floor (West Antarctica).

The only problem with all the predictions about the level of the World Ocean rising is that, the World Ocean is refusing to rise up in support of the predictions, the other problem is that ice is frozen fresh water and frozen fresh water only covers about 5 % of this planet above sea level and frozen water under the level of the World Ocean does not count as the World Ocean will fall a small amount if that ice melts, so if the ice there is enough to get the World Ocean to rise and significant amount then it must be piled up very high, I cubic kilometer of water as ice, should it melt, would make 1000 square kilometers rise by one meter, so when you use this simple math then somewhere on the planet, above the level of the sea, then there must be over 500,000 cubic kilometers of ice, piled up and just waiting to melt, strange that no one can find that amount of ice, all these morons who talk about the rise of the World Ocean in tens of meters, this includes you Peter Garrett or Mr. 7 Meters, the ice does not exist to allow this amount of rise in the World Ocean, it is just not there.

So if, say, Resolute, one of the northernmost land stations, is 50 ⁰ F, and the Arctic is mixed water - ice (it always is), that 50 degrees will be extended out 1200 kilometers where the air - sea boundary temperature has to be around 30 ⁰ F, the freezing point of seawater up there.

Because 20,000 years ago, Boston was under a kilometer of ice, which didn't get there without there being lots of snow over a long period of time.

A person could easily become alarmed to find a million square kilometers less sea ice than on the same day of a previous year where there might have been a million square kilometers more.

Applying these standard deviations to the consensus Outlook value of 4.6 million square kilometers, there is about a 16 % chance that the estimate could be near the 2007 record value and about a 40 % chance of there being sea ice greater than the 2008 value.

Hori et al.; 5.0 million square kilometers; Heuristic — remote sensing Basically, there is no change from last month except for an additional rough estimation of the arctic sea - ice albedo.

Less than 30 years ago, there would still be 7 million square kilometers or 2.5 million square miles of ice left at the end of an Arctic summer.