Sentences with phrase «monitoring ice times»

Skating related duties include skater check - in, monitoring ice times, and answering...

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Located in the ocean off Canada's Nunavut province, the new observatory will monitor in real - time environmental factors like temperature, salinity and ice thickness.

After Levy and colleagues noted visible effects of ground ice retreat in Garwood Valley, they began to monitor the valley, combining time - lapse photography and weather - station data at 15 - minute intervals to create a detailed view of the conditions under which the ice, a relict from the last ice age, is being lost.

A new NASA ice - elevation monitoring satellite called ICESAT, scheduled for launch in 2001, will help scientists watch for climate - change trends near the poles over a longer time frame, he notes.

Scientists are exploring undersea volcanoes, monitoring coastal erosion along hard - to - reach shorelines, and studying the movement of sea ice — all in real time.

If you give your dog ice cubes, limit it to one at a time and monitor them closely.

Sea ice levels around the time that satellite monitoring stsrted was probably at its highest for some 100 years ore more.

The so - called minimum sea - ice extent in «07 was at that time the lowest since satellite monitoring began in 1979, covering an average of 1.65 million square miles.

If you correct for the discontinuity in the way area is measured, it's undeniable that global sea ice has trended down over the time span monitored by satellites.

My comment is a question or request about data: For a long time I have been trying to monitor land ice, but for the layman the information does not seem to be readily out there and updating regularly.

«The amount of floating ice in the Arctic's Bering Sea — which had long been expected to retreat disastrously by climate - Cassandra organisations such as Greenpeace — reached all - time record high levels last month, according to US researchers monitoring the area using satellites.»

Instead, it seems that the satellite monitoring of the Arctic sea ice just coincidentally started at the wrong time, i.e., just when the last Arctic cooling period had ended!

The entire time they monitor and analyze Greenland gravity (imaging the variations to be ice melt), the sun was polarized one direction.

«We did not expect that the ice sheets can react to warming on such a short time scale,» said Konrad Steffen, a geographer at the University of Colorado at Boulder who has spent the past 15 years monitoring ice sheets in Greenland (map).

Operational units of FMI apply Arctic Space Centre's data and products for supporting sea ice navigation in the Baltic, air control e.g. in cases of volcanic eruptions, flood monitoring in spring time, and space weather services during solar storms.

The administration contends that changing ice levels in the Arctic could require additional U.S. military presence in the region, justifying the need for the Pentagon to commit significant time and resources to monitoring the effects of climate change.

Reports from scientists monitoring the situation indicate that a chuck of ice the size of Manhattan (100 sq. kilometers) is about the fall off, with the suspected cause being at least partially to do with increasing flows of warm water moving up the coast due to the region's changing climate, New Scientist reports.Large chunks of ice break off the Petermann glacier all the time, but with a chunk this size breaking away — this 5 billion tons of ice is about half of the glacier's annual flow — it's unlikely that current rates of snowfall elsewhere on the glacier will be able to make up for it.

Near - real - time data do not receive the rigorous quality control that final sea ice products enjoy, but it allows us to monitor ice conditions as they develop.

At a time when Arctic sea ice and snow cover are changing most rapidly, the loss of the all - weather monitoring capability of CMIS represents a major setback.