Sentences with phrase «melting point thus»

Not exact matches

They hope to disprove a stubborn and thus far unfounded assumption about avalanches: that the friction at the bottom of the slide is vigorous enough to heat the snow to the melting point.

Thus you'll find warmers pointing out that warming temperatures warm and melt permafrost which in turn releases CO2, etc..

The fractionation process involves heating then cooling the oil when it is liquid, thus separating it to «fractions» that have different melting points.

Thus, the reflective sculptures, which appear differently depending on the visitor's point of view, lose their context - independent autonomy and «melt «into their environment.

Thus, I return to my original point that melting ice would slow down the temperture changes otherwise predicted.

Once the ice reaches the equator, the equilibrium climate is significantly colder than what would initiate melting at the equator, but if CO2 from geologic emissions build up (they would, but very slowly — geochemical processes provide a negative feedback by changing atmospheric CO2 in response to climate changes, but this is generally very slow, and thus can not prevent faster changes from faster external forcings) enough, it can initiate melting — what happens then is a runaway in the opposite direction (until the ice is completely gone — the extreme warmth and CO2 amount at that point, combined with left - over glacial debris available for chemical weathering, will draw CO2 out of the atmosphere, possibly allowing some ice to return).

The surface waters contain sea ice and its fresh melt water and thus are always close to the freezing point, so lets call them Polar Waters.

Thus the topography of the coastal shelves and depth of submerged glacier grounding points determines the impact of upwelled CDW and limits extreme basal melting to a relatively few locations as illustrated by the red and orange areas in the figure below (from Depoorter 2013)..

As your references point out, during summer, sea - ice melts and ponds form, thus the sea - ice albedo declines sharply.