Sentences with phrase «less ice forming»

Without summer sea ice forming to establish the CHL, he says, the ocean mixes more — and less ice forms.

Not exact matches

Increased atmospheric heat obviously makes temperatures warmer, which leaves less time for ice to form and solidify and create new layers on glaciers and ice sheets.

A few degrees co-oler than that yields a solid, ice, which unlike any other solid form is actually less dense than its liquid form.

One can see that the same matter takes different forms, as in ice, water, and steam, and that that which takes these several forms must have much less definite form than any of these individual forms of it.

warm water (in humidity use less water) Beat all ingredients until icing forms peaks at low speed.

The faster you freeze your ice cream, the smaller the ice crystals, as the water has less time to be driven out of the sugar - water solution to form ice crystals.

Without those rare ice - forming triggers, much of the planet would see less precipitation than it does today.

For example, Kangerdlugssuaq glacier has lost mass from melting and, in its thinner form, has less weight to speed the flow of its ice toward the sea.

Some Mars scientists have suggested quickly evaporating carbon dioxide ice could have triggered rockslides, forming gullies elsewhere on the planet, but that's a less popular theory, says team member Sanjeev Gupta of Imperial College London.

Thus, less moisture is trapped in ice sheets, then more is found in liquid form.

Follow - up experiments showed fewer bubbles formed in ice with less methanol and ammonia.

In addition, now that sea ice blankets the Southern Ocean off the western Antarctic Peninsula far less than before, more water is evaporating and forming precipitation, largely in the form of snow.

Hence, the clouds that form at colder temperatures — if any form at all — contain much less suspended water in the form of ice crystals, the starting sites for snow crystal formation.

The argument is that the increased separation of the Antarctic land mass from South America led to the creation of the powerful Antarctic Circumpolar Current which acted as a kind of water barrier and effectively blocked the warmer, less salty waters from the North Atlantic and Central Pacific from moving southwards towards the Antarctic land mass leading to the isolation of the Antarctic land mass and lowered temperatures which allowed the ice sheets to form.

First of all, less sea ice is forming in the region, and secondly, oceanographic recordings from the continental shelf break confirm that the warm water masses are already moving closer and closer to the ice shelf in pulses,» says Dr Hartmut Hellmer, an oceanographer at the AWI and first author of the study.

The ice in the permafrost is formed not by liquid water, but by frozen water vapor; the absence of liquid water, makes the soil less likely to be able to sustain life.

Because the blown - away material is primarily ice, this means that some large Kuiper belt objects could have been built from a small number of really big collisions among increasingly ice - depleted bodies, while others might have been formed from smaller, less powerful collisions that allowed more ice to remain.

The ice in the permafrost of is formed not by liquid water, but by frozen water vapour; the absence of liquid water, makes the soil less likely to be able to sustain life.

Alternatives and additives to the most common form of road salt, sodium chloride, are marketed as environmentally friendly replacements because they allow highway crews to maintain ice - free roads while applying less salt.

In its solid form, ice, water is less dense than when it is liquid, another unusual property.

I haven't slept well for the last couple of nights, my little princess is fighting with flu and ear infection, the weather has gone all cold on us in Helsinki, the temperatures have dropped down 10 - 11 °C in less than 24 hours, I also had my last filling and tooth «cover» done yesterday, so once again I have looked like a tomato and felt crappy, etc... Not the best week and sometimes, no matter how positive you try to think and deal with everything, sometimes you just need this one day to simply feel like * hit, cry it out if you have to and have a nice comfort in form of chocolate bar or an ice cream sundae... That's what this day will serve me for and hopefully tomorrow will be much better.

Ice crystals block the airflow, less heat is absorbed into the evaporator, more ice is formed, less airflow... The TXV bulb will radically drop in pressure as the evap temperature approaches freezing, and cause the TXV to completely shut off liquid refrigerant flow into the evaporator to prevent this conditiIce crystals block the airflow, less heat is absorbed into the evaporator, more ice is formed, less airflow... The TXV bulb will radically drop in pressure as the evap temperature approaches freezing, and cause the TXV to completely shut off liquid refrigerant flow into the evaporator to prevent this conditiice is formed, less airflow... The TXV bulb will radically drop in pressure as the evap temperature approaches freezing, and cause the TXV to completely shut off liquid refrigerant flow into the evaporator to prevent this condition.

At 104 square miles, Glacier Grey forms less than three percent of the 4,773 - square - mile sheet of ice stretching across southern Chile and Argentina.

Her attempt to plant the flag into the glacier fails as she is unable to pierce the ice, and must seek a less stable form of support.

However, unless this winter is unusually cold, the ice will be very thin (as it will have had less time to form).

If I may add one more speculative question: are the portions of glacial sheets formed during periods of high ice flux less stable, and more prone to calving, than those formed during slow flux?

Warm oceans take a lot of heat loss to freeze and the closer to freezing they start the less heat loss before ice forms.

This dT will cause more ice to melt than otherwise would have (or less ice to form in the winter).

But the «less cold» blob is moving down through central Canada and the new ice should now start to form quite rapidly

Perhaps because, in January / February, London had its heavieast and most prolonged cold spell for twenty years and since then we have had several nights of bitter frosts Less than a fortnight ago I had to break the ice which had formed in the birdbath and was still there three hours after sunrise.

«As a result of climate change, sea ice is melting earlier and forming later each year, leaving polar bears less time to hunt.

Those dangers are now being dramatically demonstrated around the globe: drought in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, which has forced the government there to issue a state of emergency warning; France observed its warmest winter since records began; while the sea ice that has formed in the Arctic this winter is about a million square kilometres less than its average for this time of year.

Eemian organic matter form under ice caps much less so because there is little Pleistocene ice exposed, and only some of that is cold based.

But deep water production by convection may be less, depending on how much NADW is Arctic in origin and how much is simply recirculated Antarctic bottom water (extremely dense water, formed as brine under the sea ice around polynas offshore of Antarctica and sliding down the continental shelf into the depths without much mixing, creates a giant pool of dense water extending all the way up the bottom of the Atlantic to about 60 ° N).

This fresh water, together with melt ‐ water from the melting ice pack in summer forms a permanent superficial layer (usually about 200m deep) of low salinity over the entire Arctic Ocean, without which much less seasonal ice would form.

This means that even though little of the ice melts in the summer, still less ice will form in the increasingly snowless winters — and the glaciers start to retreat.

«It's a two - way street: the warming means less ice is going to form and more ice is going to melt, but also, because there's less ice, less of the sun's incident solar radiation is reflected off, and this contributes to the warming,» Parkinson added.

When the ice forms salt is excluded and the higher salinity water right below the forming ice sinks like a rock but gradually mixes along the way down with warmer less saline water.

Every winter, less seasonal snow and ice forms in the Arctic — spanning Northern Canada, Russia, Alaska, and Greenland in addition to the Arctic Ocean — meaning that the melting from the preceding summer is not replenished.