Sentences with phrase «of ice in some regions»

Geology is also compounding the rapid loss of ice in those regions.

The total area covered by thick older ice that survives one or more summers («multi-year ice») shrank 42 percent or 1.54 million square kilometers (595,000 square miles), leaving thinner first - year ice («seasonal ice») as the dominant type of ice in the region.

If the low SLP in the central Arctic persists, we can expect to see rapid retreat of ice in these regions as well as in the Canada Basin.

This ocean heat inhibited the growth of ice in these regions.

The ongoing loss of ice in a region that is on average not wamer in the latter part of 60 years (1941 - 2000) seems like a good reminder that it does not take a constant yeaer on year increase to cause pronounced natural response over large areas.

Some penguin species have already been displaced by the decline of ice in the region, and many populations will lose habitat in the decades ahead.

When there was less insolation during the summer months, the average temperature would be slightly lower and some of the ice in this region could survive and build up — eventually producing an ice sheet.

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According to Tesla, the problem is infrequent and typically occurs in cold - weather regions where a particular kind of salt is used to clear snow and ice on the road.

Maggie Beer Products operates from a base near Tanunda in South Australia's famous winemaking region of the Barossa Valley, and makes a range of gourmet products such as quince paste, soups, ice - cream, jams, chutney and pate which are sold in supermarkets and gourmet food stores.

The teams played before a good crowd of 10,578 in the 13,000 - seat arena considering A&M was closed on Tuesday because of an ice storm that had enveloped the region starting early that morning.

While my kids have not yet been to Fenelon Falls, they are well - versed in most flavours of Kawartha Dairy ice cream — another jewel of the Kawartha Lakes region.

The Conservatives won more than two - thirds of the county council seats in the Anglia region and the icing on the cake was winning the first election for the new Metro Mayor in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

If one part of an ice shelf starts to thin, it can trigger rapid ice losses in other regions as much as 900 kilometres away — contributing to sea level rise

Study researchers Hélène Seroussi and Erik Ivins of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory built a model of all the known melting and freezing under the ice in the region.

The model produced scenarios in which ice covered the region near the location of the valley networks.

Warming in the Arctic is causing the release of toxic chemicals long trapped in the region's snow, ice, ocean and soil, according to a new study.

Completed in 1980 but operational before then, the VLA was behind the discoveries of water ice on Mercury; the complex region surrounding Sagittarius A *, the black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy; and it helped astronomers identify a distant galaxy already pumping out stars less than a billion years after the big bang.

In order to understand these processes, one of Webb's Director's Discretionary Early Release Science projects will examine a nearby star - forming region to determine which ices are present where.

Climate modelers do not include effects on land - based ice in these regions because they can not reduce them to equations, such as x amount of extra heat equals y amount of melting.

At the time, it was an inert chunk of ice, dust and frozen gases, floating nearly motionless in the outermost region of the solar system, a thousand times more distant than Pluto.

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The fall of the temperature of the sea water is sometimes a sign of the proximity of ice, although in regions where there is an intermixture of cold and warm currents going on, as at the junction of the Labrador Current and the Gulf Stream, the temperature of the sea has been known to rise as the ice is approached.

A new University of Colorado Boulder study comparing dissolved black carbon deposition on ice and snow in ecosystems around the world (including Antarctica, the Arctic, and alpine regions of the Himalayas, Rockies, Andes, and Alps) shows that while concentrations vary widely, significant amounts can persist in both pristine and non-pristine areas of snow.

A portion of that fallout is trapped in the ice of the polar regions and can be analyzed even thousands of years afterwards.

Not much grows in the icy polar regions, but for the fern - like clusters of ice crystals called frost flowers this is the perfect environment, especially when it's still and dry.

In comparison, it took the Jakobshavn Isbræ ice stream — a southwest Greenland region with a fast - moving glacier that has been a focal point of scientific examination of ice sheet melt — 150 years to retreat 35 kilometers, said Khan.

The data, collected by aerial survey missions flown in the Southern Hemisphere in the summer of 2014 - 2015, provide detailed topography of the perpetually ice - free region, where surprising landscape changes, such as rapid erosion along some streams, have been observed in recent years.

Our study is significant because, while there are various different estimates for the start and end of the Little Ice Age in different regions of the world, our data show that the most extreme phases occurred at the same time in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

Satellite data show that, between 1979 and 2013, the summer ice - free season expanded by an average of 5 to 10 weeks in 12 Arctic regions, with sea ice forming later in the fall and melting earlier in the spring.

Now, a new modeling study finds a link between these winters and the decline of sea ice in a part of the Arctic Ocean known as the Barents - Kara sea region, bordering Norway and Russia.

The basin is the largest region of marine ice on rocky ground in East Antarctica.

The more intensive variations during glacial periods are due to the greater difference in temperature between the ice - covered polar regions and the Tropics, which produced a more dynamic exchange of warm and cold air masses.

These particles can build up electric charges faster than the soil can dissipate them and may cause sparking, particularly in the polar cold of permanently shadowed regions — unique lunar sites as cold as minus 240 degrees Celsius and known to contain water ice.

While that water could initially come from Earth, it could later come from water ice frozen on asteroids, in shadowed regions of the moon's surface, from possible sources on Mars» two moons, or from Mars itself.

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Five years later, a team of researchers investigated the seafloor species in the region once shadowed by ice.

The retreat is especially severe in West Antarctica, widely acknowledged as the most vulnerable part of the continent and the region whose glaciers are losing the most ice.

Before the corridor closed, prior to the last glacial maximum, they moved freely up and down between the ice - free regions in the north and grasslands south of the ice sheets.

After compiling 10 floe - scale maps of the ice from the Weddell, Bellingshausen, and the Wilkes Land regions of the continent, the researchers found that the sea ice thickness tended to be highly variable, with many ridges and valleys, they report online today in Nature Geoscience.

Likewise, the Antarctic silverfish — another sea ice - dependent species and once an important source of food for the Adélies around Palmer Station — is becoming increasingly scarce in the region.

«Polar regions have been changing very rapidly, providing data for our projections on sea ice, snow cover, ice sheets and sea level rise,» says David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK, the lead author of the cryosphere chapter.

The ascending hydrothermal fluids probably trigger local melting in the ice layer of the polar region.

In previously ice - rich areas such as the Beaufort Gyre off the Alaskan coast or the region south of Spitsbergen, the sea ice is considerably thinner now than it normally is during the spring.

«In many regions of the Arctic, new ice only formed very slowly due to the particularly warm winter.

«If there were a link, it would be more likely to occur in fall [when the Arctic sea ice is at a low and the region is warm] than it would in January [when the Arctic is ice - covered and cold], so from that point of view, it's not a compelling candidate at this time of year,» Hoerling said.

They have found that that the loss of ice from West Antarctica between 2009 and 2012 caused a dip in the gravity field over the region.

The findings back up a body of data suggesting that «the effects of global [warming] will be seen first, and will be most pronounced, in the arctic region,» says Mark Serreze, an arctic climatologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.

Scientists had previously considered the region's ground ice to be in equilibrium, meaning its seasonal melting and refreezing did not, over time, diminish the valley's overall mass of ground ice.

Joughin's and Tulaczyk's paper, published in Science in 2002, documents an increase in ice mass for one region of the WAIS called the Ross Sea Sector.

Data reported by NASA's New Horizons New Horizons mission to the Pluto system shows unusual terrain in this region, which features a large deposit of nitrogen ice with a pattern of polygons that are thickest at their centers and dip at their edges.