Sentences with phrase «land under the ice»

The land under the ice sheet also adds another wrinkle.

Not exact matches

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.»

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 Oregon.

Almost 10 percent of the planet's land area sits locked under glacial ice, where humans have never ventured.

Lake Whillans had likely not seen the light of day for hundreds of thousands of years, but Tulacyzk and the others who landed that day intended to see what was under the ice.

When they retreat, they leave behind a freshly polished, pristine landscape that is markedly different from land that has not been buried under an ice sheet.

And then there is the really off - beat stuff like a post-apocalyptic-vampire-western-road movie, Stake Land (which is magnificent), a naughty DIY costumed hero flick from James Gun called Super and starring Ellen Page and Kevin Bacon, an Eva Green starring ethereal cloning drama from Hungary, but in English, called Womb, and a film that will make you completely reassess how you feel about Santa Claus and his elf posse when the jolly fat man is portrayed as a 25 meter tall horned demon encased in a block of ice under a Finnish mountain.

After landing and under your pilot's expert guidance, you'll get to explore these glaciers massive crevasses, frozen landscapes, icefalls, glacial streams and ice pools.

Other factors would include: — albedo shifts (both from ice > water, and from increased biological activity, and from edge melt revealing more land, and from more old dust coming to the surface...); — direct effect of CO2 on ice (the former weakens the latter); — increasing, and increasingly warm, rain fall on ice; — «stuck» weather systems bringing more and more warm tropical air ever further toward the poles; — melting of sea ice shelf increasing mobility of glaciers; — sea water getting under parts of the ice sheets where the base is below sea level; — melt water lubricating the ice sheet base; — changes in ocean currents -LRB-?)

Remember for a long time «pingos» were surface land features — odd hills on the flat tundra, in areas that that had been under the ice age ice, then had been underwater as that ice melted and sea level rose, then exposed again during the next ice age.

Sea ice in the SH is not relevant because the ice pack there has land under it.

According to the NASA press release, the study «adds evidence that a geothermal heat source called a mantle plume lies deep below Antarctic Marie Byrd Land, explaining some of the melting that creates lakes and rivers under the ice sheet.»

These methods have been significantly improved by fully coupling the hydrologic cycle among land, lake, and atmosphere.94, 95 Without accounting for that cycle of interactions, a study96 concluded that increases in precipitation would be negated by increases in winter evaporation from less ice cover and by increases in summer evaporation and evapotranspiration from warmer air temperatures, under a scenario of continued increases in global emissions (SRES A2 scenario).

The Southern Hemisphere also has a pole hole; however, it does not affect this sea ice data set; since only land is under this hole.

And as far as long term our Ice Box Climate is not good - having about 1/2 the land area under a mile of ice would not even make the most avid skiers hapIce Box Climate is not good - having about 1/2 the land area under a mile of ice would not even make the most avid skiers hapice would not even make the most avid skiers happy.

There was only one continent leading to more of the land being desserts or under ice.

We also make use of two lengthy control simulations conducted with CESM1 under constant 1850 radiative conditions: a 2200 - year control run using the fully - coupled configuration (hereafter termed the «coupled control run»), and a 2600 - year control run using only the atmospheric model component coupled to the land model component from CESM1 with a specified repeating seasonal cycle of sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and sea ice conditions taken from the long - term climatology of the fully - coupled control run (hereafter termed the «atmospheric control run»).

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.

A new NASA study adds evidence that a geothermal heat source called a mantle plume lies deep below Antarctica's Marie Byrd Land, explaining some of the melting that creates lakes and rivers under the ice sheet.

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Available water due to snow / ice plus biological CO2 / methane sequestered under snow / ice are things likely to have changed with land clearing.

Glacier - A mass of land ice that flows downhill under gravity (through internal deformation and / or sliding at the base) and is constrained by internal stress and friction at the base and sides.