Sentences with phrase «lake ice thinning»

Lake ice thinning has important consequences for Arctic lake hydrology, biology and permafrost degradation, says Ben Brock

Lindner, B.L., C.P. McKay, G. Clow, and R. Wharton, NOAA investigation into the climatic causes of Antarctic lake ice thinning, NOAA National Environmental Watch, (electronic publication available on CD - Rom from NOAA), 1994.

Not exact matches

Even weather control is not as incredible as it sounds, for there is a delicate energy balance which can be changed by thin films on lakes and ice fields, or by air - borne particles.

However, during winter field surveys over the last decade, lake ice has typically only grown to 1.5 meters (5 feet) thick, and has been as thin as 1.2 meters (4 feet),» said Christopher Arp, research assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Water and Environmental Research Center and lead author of the new study accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

For example, thinner lake ice may help fish overwintering, or it may help the oil industry since they need lake water to build winter ice roads.

Mountains of new ice underneath the ice sheet Researchers have also observed water in lakes underneath glaciers that refreezes into thin layers of ice.

Once a thin sheet of ice forms on a lake in Antarctica, a «race» begins between (1) ice growing downward, and (2) snow building upward.

Since IPCC (2001) the cryosphere has undergone significant changes, such as the substantial retreat of arctic sea ice, especially in summer; the continued shrinking of mountain glaciers; the decrease in the extent of snow cover and seasonally frozen ground, particularly in spring; the earlier breakup of river and lake ice; and widespread thinning of antarctic ice shelves along the Amundsen Sea coast, indicating increased basal melting due to increased ocean heat fluxes in the cavities below the ice shelves.

Although freezing rain gives way to snow flurries by midafternoon, there is no way we can play driftmeister hooligan on one of the nearby frozen lakes, as the ice is sadly too thin even for Porsche's new lightweight 718 Boxster prototype we've come here to play with in the cold.

Keeping pets indoors when temperatures drop, take time to care for their feet or train them to wear booties, avoid letting them eat snow, and be careful to avoid thin ice on lakes.

I'm all for hiking with dogs off leash, but in winter, be extra cautious around ponds and lakes for fear of thin ice.

The ice on the lake at my place is freezing about 3 weeks later than it did when I was a child (I'm 43), averaging thinner ice in the winters, and leaving about 2 weeks earlier.

In fall or early winter, the cryosphere expands, as thin ice starts to cover oceans, rivers, and lakes.

Scientists think mantle plumes are thin streams of heated rock that makes its way upward, melting ice and creating rivers and lakes of meltwater under Antarctica's western ice sheet.

In 2011, the lake ice was 38 percent thinner than in 1950, and 22 percent fewer lakes froze through to their bottoms.

Lake ice is also thinner each winter.

(In this NASA satellite shot of northern Bolivia taken on November 6, 2016, we find very thin mountain snow and ice cover in upper center, a lake Titicaca that is both now very low and filled with sand bars at upper left, and a completely dried up lake Poopo at bottom - center.

If there is warming, the Arctic could experience a thinner and reduced ice cover, including that in Arctic lakes and streams.

Enormous animals and frozen lakes don't make for the best mix — especially when enormous animals wander onto relatively thin ice.

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