Sentences with phrase «land ice on»

If CO2e exceeds a range of 550 to 650 parts per million — which could easily happen even under so - called moderate rates of fossil fuel burning before the middle of the 21st Century — then all the land ice on Earth will be placed under melt pressure.

«The traditional view of the loss of land ice on Earth has been that mountain glaciers and ice caps are the dominant contributors, and ice sheets are following behind,» said study co-author Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of California, Irvine.

Not exact matches

«It was just something that I was making in my kitchen because I didn't like sugar,» says Woolverton, whose company, Halo Top Creamery, has landed at No. 5 on Inc.'s 2017 list of the fastest - growing private companies in the U.S. «It wasn't until later, when I got an actual $ 20 ice cream maker, that I was like, «Oh, wow, there's something here.»»

«Imagine landing on a vast field of tall sharp ice spikes, and remember that at the temperature of Europa ice has the strength of granite.»

And if Gomez, whose multiyear legal battle is likely to reach a head later this month with a verdict expected on May 24, does land behind bars, the chilling effect on researchers will be of Ice Age proportions.

Unlike Arctic ice, which floats on water, Antarctic ice sits on land.

The chocolate mousse is adapted from an ice - cream recipe from From The Land We Live On.

Since its launch in 1982, Mr. Brown coffee has gone on to dominate the canned iced coffee market in the land of its birth.

The ice water prevents them from continuing to cook and helps maintain that vibrant color so they're not that distressing yellow - brown when they land on your holiday table.

Both players toppled over and landed on the ice before any serious punches were thrown and the refs were quick to separate the two, but it was enough to send a message.

Frank Mahovlich rolls right along with Rolls - Royce Gordie Howe and Land Rover Alex Delvecchio to make up the best front line on the ice

You'll find the LAND O LAKES name on quality cream, cottage cheese, sour cream, ice cream and juice products.

The sports facility, to be built on Park District - owned land at Plainfield and Clarendon Hills Roads, would include an ice rink, multipurpose room, indoor fieldhouse for soccer or in - line hockey, concession area, pro shop and locker rooms.

SCHAUMBURG — The Schaumburg Park District is close to striking a deal with Chicago - based Kevin Mann Hockey Inc. allowing the firm to build and operate an ice arena on land near Schaumburg Regional Airport.

Minutes after pleading not guilty to sweeping corruption charges, the once - powerful politician barely dodged another embarrassing fall from grace when he slipped on a mound of ice and barely avoided landing on his butt.

A recent surge prompted the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation to push back a deadline for bids on three land parcels that are located south of the Ice at Canalside.

Water heats more slowly than land, creating pressure differences that drive high - speed winds; fast - burning fires spawn flame - breathing vortices; the pressure waves of a plane on takeoff transform water into ice.

With so much ice on land, sea level was 120 metres lower than it is today.

The data also show a land bump, or sill, at the mouth of Skinfaxe glacier, which prevents warmer, deep Atlantic water (yellow on temperature bar) from reaching the ice.

And when they land on Greenland's snow and ice, their ability to absorb heat from sunlight increases surface melting.

The floating mountains of ice — some of which start out Connecticut - sized or larger — scraped up bits of rock when they were parts of glaciers on land.

Climate modelers do not include effects on land - based ice in these regions because they can not reduce them to equations, such as x amount of extra heat equals y amount of melting.

An expanding ice - free season also means bears» stay on land would overlap the entire caribou calving season and a good portion of a booming geese population's molt and egg - laying season.

False assumptions on starvation «Unless you've been living under a rock the last few decades, you're aware that Arctic Sea ice is melting, and that this is potentially bad news for polar bears,» she said, adding that until now, the prevailing belief has been that «energy from food on land is largely inconsequential.»

And researchers are not yet certain polar bears — which on ice lie in wait for, rather than chase after, prey — can do so on land.

When black carbon lands on white ice or snow, it reduces a glacier's ability to reflect sunlight — adding another source of heat to the mix.

The absence of swell or wave motion in a fresh breeze is a sign that there is land or ice on the weather side.

Satellites aren't built to last forever, so it's not a big surprise that the third and last laser on NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) quit working on October 11, outlasting its designed mission length by three and a half years.

In the mid-1980s all our flights were survey flights: we had 12 hours in the air once we left our base in southern Chile, so we had plenty of time to chat with the pilots about making a forced landing on the ice shelves.

Kargel is the international coordinator of Global Land Ice Measurements From Space, a satellite program dedicated to photographing each glacier on Earth every year.

It has uniquely adapted for life on a combination of land, sea, and ice and is now dependent on this combination.

«They are capable of existing on land for part of the year, but the sea ice is where they obtain their main prey.»

But to hail this transformation as unprecedented is to do our mustachioed ancestors a disservice — an act of wanton disrespect made only more unseemly when one considers that they were born and lived and went to their graves without ever once waking up on a birthday morning, scraping the ice off their laptops, and receiving salutations from a distant land in the form of an abysmal, not - quite - functioning cartoon of chickens — one year it was elephants — either attempting, or pretending, to dance.

When it's cold enough to form ice shelves that extend over the Antarctic land mass and into the ocean, much of what drops to the seafloor is sand and gravel that the glacier has picked up on its slow march from the continent's ice cap.

Ohio State research associate Myoung - Jong Noh created the software, which builds 1 - gigabyte «tiles» representing regions 7 kilometers on a side and assembles them into mosaics depicting land, sea and ice elevation.

During ice ages, which are mainly driven by rhythmic variations in Earth's orbit and spin that alter sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere, growing ice caps and glaciers trap so much frozen water on land that sea levels can drop a hundred meters or more.

One «growing phenomenon in the Arctic [is] polar bears foraging on land as their primary habitat, sea ice, retreats,» Kintisch writes, which makes field work even more dangerous, and difficult, than it would be otherwise.

This expedition landed on the southwestern confines of the Ross Sea, and, by its explorations, showed that the great ice barrier is in reality the front of an enormous ice field or glacier, mainly floating on the surface of an extended bay or sea, and fed by glaciers coming down from the elevated land on the westerly side and probably also on the eastern.

Capt. Roald Amundsen, the discoverer of the Northwest Passage, left Norway in June, 1910, in the «Fram,» seemingly with the intention of sailing around Cape Horn, however, he sailed to the westward across the South Pacific, and made a landing at whale Bay on the ice sheet covering Ross Sea.

The advancing ice could also bury some agricultural lands and make the planet an overall colder place, «likely reducing the total amount of habitable area on Earth,» Haqq - Misra wrote in a paper laying out the thought experiment.

For instance, when the Phoenix spacecraft landed on Mars in 2008, it kicked up enough dust to reveal water ice — a surprise to its builders, who hadn't thought that the lander's relatively weak rocket engines could have moved so much material.

«It's hard to discern an ice sheet's cycles on land because it destroys the evidence,» she says, «but it dumps that evidence in the oceans, archived in layers on the bottom.»

It could scan Mars and map out subsurface pockets of water ice and even assist in X-marking a safe and sound landing zone for astronauts where they can draw on water for oxygen - sustaining needs as well as for concocting rocket fuel.

Analyzing and dating these rocks, they found that ocean water began to appear on the ridge's land - facing side in 1945, even as the ice sheet remained grounded on the ridge's summit, scientists report online today in Nature.

That warmth ultimately limits the reforming of sea ice and also has a warming influence on nearby land.

At the peak of the last ice age, around 21,000 years ago, it was a volcanically active spot on the southern edge of the Bering Land Bridge.

If the probe happens to land on ice, it will evaporate a sample with a little projecting tube and measure the hydrogen there as well.

On the other hand, wind turbines also have a habit of icing up and, occasionally, throwing ice under those kinds of frost conditions, says Kathryn McCullough, whose family owns a wind farm and an agricultural farm on the same land in OregoOn the other hand, wind turbines also have a habit of icing up and, occasionally, throwing ice under those kinds of frost conditions, says Kathryn McCullough, whose family owns a wind farm and an agricultural farm on the same land in Oregoon the same land in Oregon.

If the melting of the polar ice caps injects great amounts of freshwater into the world's oceans, climate scientists fear that the influx could affect currents enough to drastically change the weather on land

It landed on muddy, surprisingly dark ground, a mix of water ice, sand, and frozen hydrocarbons.