Sentences with phrase «of ice removal»

Their findings suggest that applying water - repellent coatings to windshields before winter storms — or engineering surfaces that inherently repel water — could enable a strong breeze to handle the burden of ice removal.

«We find that iceberg calving is not the dominant process of ice removal.

Not exact matches

A definitive piece of the county plan will be the county takeover of snow and ice removal in the town of Black Brook, according to Zurlo.

Molinaro treated Dutchess County Department of Public Works (DPW) employees to a special luncheon yesterday at the DPW highway garage as a thank you to the more than 120 DPW employees who worked tirelessly last week during the Nor» easter to perform snow and ice removal operations to ensure continued safe travel throughout Dutchess County for residents and emergency personnel.

The report Wednesday says the fund's $ 3.8 billion disbursements in the 2012 - 13 fiscal year included $ 1.6 billion for state operations, including Department of Transportation snow and ice removal and Department of Motor Vehicles staff.

On Lake Erie, however, it's another story where there's so much ice cover the removal of the ice boom has been delayed.

«The chemical removal of CO2 in sea ice occurs in two phases.

«Nice ice, maybe: Study finds water - repelling surfaces ease ice removal: Findings could inform design of anti-ice coatings, materials.»

Video protocol for ancient ice cores: Removal of Exogenous Materials from the Outer Portion of Frozen Cores to Investigate the Ancient Biological Communities Harbored Inside — Robyn A. Barbato — JOVE

Regional removal of ice sheets, however, occurred nearly 1000 years later, and hence draining of Lake Agassiz could not likely have caused the Younger Dryas cold reversal.

Here, there is weakening of local gravity and enhancing of rebound of the Earth's crust out of the ocean, both caused by the rapid removal of ice mass.

This is particularly concerning for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is largely grounded below sea level [9], and removal of this could raise sea levels by 3.3 m [10, 11].

I discuss topics from the last day of AGU2017, such as Solar Radiation Management, Arctic Ice Management, and Carbon Dioxide Removal.

There are lots of folk remedies for tick removal: burning it with the end of a hot match or cigarette; smothering it with nail polish, alcohol, or petroleum jelly; or freezing it with ice, for example.

Naturally this means lots of plowing, shoveling, and snow and ice removal.

Many veterinarians are not comfortable with, and do not have the equipment necessary for removal of a dog's brain, in which case we ask that they decapitate the dog and send the head to us packed in ice as soon as possible.

It is commonly used on roads, driveways and sidewalks to melt ice or prevent ice buildup, or as part of a snow removal routine.

I like this little dig at the denier - sceptic - contrarians who appear to be tree ring obsessed: «It is intriguing to note that the removal of tree - ring data from the proxy dataset yields less, rather than greater, peak cooling during the 16th — 19th centuries for both CPS and EIV methods... contradicting the claim... that tree - ring data are prone to yielding a warm - biased «Little Ice Age» relative to reconstructions using other high - resolution climate proxy indicators.»

This gradual removal of CO2 from the atmosphere reduces the overall greenhouse effect and thus slowly draws the entire planet into an ice age, driving further ice sheet expansion over tens of thousands of years (a complete ice age cycle is around 100,000 years)

In each case, the removal of ice around the periphery seems to allow inland ice to move more readily toward the sea.

Numerous processes contribute to this, including the removal of buttressing ice shelves (i.e., ice tongues floating on water but in places anchored on islands or underwater rocks) or the lubrication of the ice sheet base by meltwater trickling down from the surface through cracks.

When liquid water freezes, to become solid ice, there is never any heating of the water due to the removal of the 80 calories per gram of latent heat energy of fusion.

«Our projection of 2013 for the removal of ice in summer is not accounting for the last two minima, in 2005 and 2007,» claimed Professor Wieslaw Maslowski, described as researcher from the Naval Postgraduate School who was working with co-workers at NASA to come up with the now - thoroughly discredited forecasts about polar ice.

We see less short term predictions; «Our projection of 2013 for the removal of ice in summer is not accounting for the last two minima, in 2005 and 2007,» the researcher from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, explained to the BBC.

Results show that the globally and annually averaged radiative forcing caused by the observed loss of sea ice in the Arctic between 1979 and 2007 is approximately 0.1 W m − 2; a complete removal of Arctic sea ice results in a forcing of about 0.7 W m − 2, while a more realistic ice - free - summer scenario (no ice for one month, decreased ice at all other times of the year) results in a forcing of about 0.3 W m − 2, similar to present - day anthropogenic forcing caused by halocarbons.

With respect to how the atmosphere responds to the removal of summer sea ice, I looked at this in the paper

By the mid-Holocene period, 6000 - 5000 years ago, glacial melting had essentially ceased, while ongoing adjustments of Earth's lithosphere due to removal of the ice sheets gradually decreased over time.

Gerry Pollack's work on polywater (EZ water) also suggests that when firn converts to ice, substantial removal of particulates in the firn occurs since those particulates can not fit into the ice molecular structure — Hence you end up with layers of particulate free ice, and intervening layers of particulates.

Wieslaw Maslowski: Our projections for 2013, the removal of ice in summer, actually are not accounting for the last two minima, in 2005 and 2007.

Here the land is sinking as the continent adjusts to the removal of massive ice sheets, but it appears the sea is rising.

Due to the long - timescales associated with the carbon cycle (e.g., Solomon et al., 2009), reversing sea ice loss would in practice require some type of active carbon removal from the atmosphere.

1) tectonics — earthquakes and slow seismic events 2) erosion / sedimentation 3) isostatic rebound — response to a change in surface load (such as the removal of an ice sheet or deposition or removal of sediment)

Ice shelves are important because they help control glacier flow; removal of ice shelves causes rapid glacier acceleration and calviIce shelves are important because they help control glacier flow; removal of ice shelves causes rapid glacier acceleration and calviice shelves causes rapid glacier acceleration and calving.

Here's an overview from NASA: By the mid-Holocene period, 6000 - 5000 years ago, glacial melting had essentially ceased, while ongoing adjustments of Earth's lithosphere due to removal of the ice sheets gradually decreased over time.

«Ice911 Research: Preserving and Rebuilding Reflective Ice», presented as part of Strategies for Cooling Earth: Solar Geoengineering and Carbon Dioxide Removal I Posters, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2014.

Our projection of 2013 for the removal of ice in summer is not accounting for the last two minima, in 2005 and 2007, so given that fact, you can argue that may be our projection of 2013 is already too conservative.

Regional removal of ice sheets, however, occurred nearly 1000 years later, and hence draining of Lake Agassiz could not likely have caused the Younger Dryas cold reversal.

We note that this study has not taken into account the potential changes in atmospheric humidity caused by sea ice removal, which should be a focus of future work.

These results suggest that the tropospheric oxidizing capacity could change dramatically over the Arctic if summer sea ice is to retreat in the future, something that could impact the removal of important gases (methane, carbon monoxide) in this region.

These runs are examined for evidence of accelerated climate change associated with the removal of sea ice, particularly due to increasing surface albedo feedback.

Arguments about Serbian atrocities would have cut no ice: Milosovic's crimes, though serious, were not in the same league as those of Saddam Hussein, and the removal of Saddam Hussein is no longer seen as a justification for Operation Telic.

That all changed with the Supreme Judicial Court's 2010 decision, Papadopoulos v. Target Corp., in which the court abolished any legal distinction between natural and unnatural accumulations of snow and instead said that a property owner has a duty to act «as a reasonable person under all the circumstances» with regard to removal of snow and ice.

Rather, what it means is that deciding what is «reasonable» removal of snow and ice on private property would be judged on a case by case basis.

They took the position that the plaintiff failed to make reasonable inquiries to confirm the existence and identity of the contractor involved in snow and ice removal.

Part of creating safe conditions would include regular property checkups and maintenance as well as systems to deal with snow and ice removal.

To reduce swelling, your Kentucky doctor will recommend treatment such as rest, elevation, ice, anti-inflammatories, or removal of excess fluid.

The snow removal reasonably expected of a property owner will depend on the amount of foot traffic to be anticipated on the property, the magnitude of the risk reasonably feared, and the burden and expense of snow and ice removal.

The Supreme Judicial Court provided some guidance: «a fact finder will determine what snow and ice removal efforts are reasonable in light of the expense they impose on the landowner and the probability and seriousness of the foreseeable harm to others.

In Snow & Ice, Inc. v. MPR Management, 2017 IL App (1st) 151706 - U, a snow removal company brought breach of contract and quantum meruit claims against a property manager and several property owners for unpaid services.

Given the severity of East Coast winters, Massachusetts in particular has a number of regulations regarding the removal of snow and ice and the storing of chemicals used to remove snow and ice.