Sentences with phrase «multiyear ice forms»
Because of warmer Arctic temperatures, little multiyear ice forms to replace what's lost.
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The ice is mapped by age: first year ice that's formed this year, 2 year old ice (survived the last summer's melt), and so on up to «5 +» (which is very thick multiyear ice that has survived five or more summer melt seasons).
the avalanche studies tell us the layers formed in the snow are indicative of the type of avalanche expected, is there any reason not to believe that so called fractured multiyear ice won't behave in the same style (breaks laterally)?