Sentences with phrase «melt pools in the summer»

Be sure to check out the blue melt pools in the summer and icebergs in the winter!

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Spring has started to melt a way through the giant frozen expanse of this archipelago in western Finland, as cracks in the ice turn into rust - coloured pools around wooden jetties in a sign of the coming summer.

But this year the scientists have a slightly different focus: the pools of water known as melt pond that form on the ice in spring and summer.

Although it is unclear how much of the water pool available for photosynthesis is derived from winter versus summer precipitation, research on oxygen isotopes in modern larch suggests that larch rely on spring snow melt and thus integrate the isotopic signal of annual precipitation (Sugimoto et al., 2002).

When summer temperatures rise in Greenland and the melt season begins, water pools on the surface, and sometimes disappears down holes in the ice.