Sentences with phrase «long ice stream»
The 150 - km - long ice stream drains a large part of southern Greenland.
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The findings suggest the latitude of the Atlantic jet stream in summer is influenced by several factors including sea surface temperatures, solar variability, and the extent of Arctic sea - ice, indicating a potential long - term memory and predictability in the climate system.
It's one of the largest ice streams draining the West Antarctic ice sheet, hundreds of kilometres long and about 100 kilometres wide.
The new result focuses on ice loss due to a major retreat of an outlet glacier connected to a long «river» of ice — known as an ice stream — that drains ice from the interior of the ice sheet.
How long I slept I do not know, and never shall know; but I awoke suddenly, and with a start, for it seemed as if a stream of ice - cold water was pouring over my face.
It's a journey even Indiana Jones would have to brace himself for: an hour - long rainforest hike, a swim across an ice - cold stream into the narrow mouth of a cave, and then a slippery descent into the dark, cavernous depths where bats, spiders, and ancient scorpion - like amblypygi lurk in the nooks.
Humboldt Glacier is much different as the lack of confining topography prevents the development of the strong ice stream flow we see on Jakobshavn Glacier or the weaker ice stream flow of Petermann Glacier and its subsequent long floating tongue.
Now the Danish - led team has examined changes linked to the 600 kilometre - long Zachariae ice stream in the north - east.
Long, roughly parallel cracks score the surface, formed by water and pressure; impossibly blue lakes of meltwater fill depressions; and veiny networks of azure streams meander west, flowing to the edge of the ice sheet and eventually out to sea.