Sentences with phrase «near pack ice»

According to Julian Paren of the British Antarctic Survey, submersibles like the adapted torpedo have an important part to play in ice research because it is virtually impossible for research ships to go near pack ice, especially in winter.

Not exact matches

It's chilly near the start of the Run - de-Vous, one of the hundreds of ultrarunning races that take place every year, but seven volunteers are working like the dwarves pounding packs of ice on the pavement and shuffling the broken cubes and sponges into buckets of water.

Always keep the ice packs near or in contact with the containers; do not open the cooler very often.

And, I had them hold my ice packs in their freezer, usually near the front desk or the bellman can help.

Near its edges pack ice is composed of pieces loosely drifting on the water.

As he did so, the ship encountered small waves that grew in size over time — a surprise as even a little ice near the pack edges usually damps out waves.

This is a function of the extreme low temperatures I encountered -LRB--15 degrees, I think) and the ice packed in near the tailgate's upper hinges that wouldn't melt.

In December, Antarctic summer, the pack ice begins to break up and open water appears near the breeding site, just as young emperor penguins are ready to swim and fish on their own.

Thomas, I appreciate that they are imperfect things to compare, but have you ever seen pictures of the ice pack near the edge of the ice sheet where the melting is happening fastest?

The days of melting being consigned to the edges with the bulk of the thicker pack ice in the middle surviving and thriving are, at least for the near term, over.

The forecast shows near - normal ice concentrations in the marginal ice zone and below normal ice concentrations in the polar pack, however the skill of the model north of ~ 80N isn't greater than chance.

In some cases the ice tongues can turn back towards the main ice pack and vessels near the ice edge can be trapped.

Ice extent remains below normal everywhere in the Arctic (Figure 4), with open water developing along the coasts of northwest Canada, Alaska, and Siberia and within the ice pack in the Beaufort Sea and near the North Pole (Figure Ice extent remains below normal everywhere in the Arctic (Figure 4), with open water developing along the coasts of northwest Canada, Alaska, and Siberia and within the ice pack in the Beaufort Sea and near the North Pole (Figure ice pack in the Beaufort Sea and near the North Pole (Figure 5).

A study using data from Polar drifting ice buoys showed that near surface air temperatures over the pack ice are relatively homogenous, with a CLS (correlation length scale) of 900-1000 km, see (Rigor 2000).

Meanwhile, a U.N. report predicted $ 1 trillion in annual damage from ocean acidification if carbon pollution is not curbed, and the Antarctic ice pack appears to have grown this year partly because fresh water from melting glaciers has raised the freezing point of the near - shore Southern Ocean.

Helicopter - born electromagnetic estimates of the mean ice thickness were between 0.6 m and 0.7 m in the pack ice and ~ 0.4 m near the ice edge.

Sea surface temperatures were warm in coast areas, but near - freezing in the open water areas within the ice pack, which is expected given the recent ice melt in that region (Figure 7).

Once trapped, it drifted in ice pack before finally sinking near Kolyuchin Island (in the Chukchi Sea) on 13 February 1934.

Opening of the Arctic pack near the east - Siberian coasts in September is a possibility, but the uncertainty in ice concentration in this region is large in all groups that provide this regional information.

In the most dramatic of the simulated events, the September ice pack undergoes a 4 million square km loss (about 60 percent of the 1979 - 2000 ice cover) in only a decade, leading to near ice - free September conditions by 2040.