Sentences with phrase «of ice water near»

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I don't live near an ice - capped body of water, nor do I work near the Sahara desert.

The company uses a block of ice in its marketing to high - end chefs and restaurants to emphasise the high quality of the kingfish it farms near Port Lincoln, and the cold - water environment which they claim makes it so much tastier than kingfish coming out of warmer waters elsewhere.

The puddle ducks are in the patches of open water near shore, the mergansers farther out, and the gulls stand in a great white crescent on the ice in the center of the reservoir, folding and unfolding their wings.

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.

The water, packaged in a total of 4,000 one litre bio-degradable paperboard cartons, was made from accumulated ice from Iceland, near the North Pole, where it is claimed the purest source of water in the world exists.

Researchers created ice crystals with a near - perfect cubic arrangement of water molecules, in order to better understand how high - altitude ice clouds interact with sunlight and the atmosphere.

As it neared its end, Cassini also made close study of Saturn's rings, which are largely made up of water ice — including, for the first time, the capture of a few stray, submicron particles.

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

Plankton, crustaceans and fish, all food for wildlife, reproduce at the dynamic edge of the sea ice, where it floats over shallow near - shore waters.

It will use ice - penetrating radar to measure the thickness of the moon's ice shell, map its internal rifts and faults (clues to the tempo of its geologic activity) and locate pockets of water near the surface.

Multiple observations indicate that the flowing water responsible for shaping and moving the rounded pebbles encountered in the vicinity of the rover landing area has long since been lost to space, though some of it may still exist deep below the surface of the planet at equatorial locations (water ice is known to exist near the surface at the poles).

We will know even more in late July and August, when the comet begins to warm up near the water - ice line outside of the orbit of Mars, and we can detect the most abundant frozen gas, which is water, as it boils away from the comet.»

But in December 2012, when the ice moon was at its farthest point from the gas giant, they caught a pair of plumes bearing clear signs of oxygen and hydrogen — the components of water vapor — shooting from near the southern pole.

Water ice strongly reflects radar, and observations reveal that there are patches of very high radar reflection near the poles.

Mars Odyssey spotted vast tracts of water ice, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter saw «dry ice» snowflakes falling from clouds near the pole.

A major, previously unknown subglacial lake near the grounding line of Whillans Ice Stream is observed to drain 2.0 km3 of water over ~ 3 years, while elsewhere a similar volume of water is being stored subglacially.

The new results show that atmospheric water in the near - polar region was enriched by a factor of seven relative to Earth's ocean water, implying that water in Mars» permanent ice caps is enriched by 8-fold.

The team was especially interested in regions near the north and south poles, because the polar ice caps are the planet's largest known reservoir of water.

ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has provided evidence for a daily water - ice cycle on and near the surface of comets.

Researchers get electricity via consumer - grade generators, collect drinking water by melting ice, and typically wear earplugs at night to drown out the near - constant howling of the wind.

Significantly, this water was found near Mars» north pole, but not in its polar icecaps, indicating that water extends farther than just those areas of trapped water ice, dust and carbon dioxide.

But polar ice caps are surrounded by millions of square miles of near - freezing water.

Using its three main science instruments, Odyssey has mapped the global distribution of many minerals and chemical elements across the Martian surface, found evidence of large amounts of buried water ice near the planet's poles and measured the radiation environment in low Mars orbit, which could help NASA plan out future manned missions to the Red Planet.

``... near the poles, Mars Odyssey [spacecraft] has shown, as much as 50 percent of the upper meter of soil may be [water] ice.»

However, layers of water ice, up to a few hundred meters thick, are permanently shielded from sunlight in craters (shown above in black) near Mercury's poles.10 How strange.

Currently, the planet is barren and below freezing, with much of its water seen near the surface as ice.

Ya know, since there's clearly a need for working raw materials in near Earth orbit, and we're not going to catch an asteroid any time soon — perhaps it would be worth putting some loads of say water ice, or sheet metal, or nitrogen tanks, or something cheaper than a satellite, and making some test shots of this vehicle until they know for sure the fairing will pop off.

The point is, ice near its melting point tends to fracture — suddenly — leaving two chunks of ice separated by a film of water.

There's been open water at the pole before» During the summer of 2000 there was «a large body of ice - free water about 10 miles long and 3 miles wide near the pole» http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00E3DD1E31F93AA1575BC0A9669C8B63

Having stood on the shifting sea ice near the North Pole once, I do feel the desire to be bipolar and go to Antarctic waters someday, despite conditions that will always make trips there adventure travel in the purest sense of that word.

I suspect the amount of additional 33psu surface waters entrained by the sinking brine is indicated by the nearly 35psu salinity of Arctic ocean water below about 300 meters depth; if the salt from each cubic meter of ice formed were added to approximately 15 cubic meters of water at 33psu, it would raise the salinity to near 35psu.

The point of the observations that you have gathered from the people who study, as opposed to merely post speculations, is the water near the bottom of the Arctic Ocean is isolated from the ice on its surface.

To see just how fast Arctic sea ice can shift, have a look at these photos, which I took just a few hours apart, showing a «lead» — a stretch of open water — that opened a few dozen yards from the Russian base camp serving tourists and scientists near the Pole.

As I've been reporting since I camped with scientists on the drifting, chugging sea ice near the North Pole in 2003, the basic picture is of a warming system (oceans and atmosphere) in which open water eventually dominates in late summer — for better and worse, depending on your vantage point.

The resulting weaker density stratification allowed more vertical mixing of the water column during storms in late September and early October, leading to the observed warming of the near - bottom layer in the still ice - free Laptev Sea... Warmer water temperatures near the seabed may also impact the stability of the shelf's submarine permafrost.»

The Barnett Ice Severity (BIS) index provides a measure of the extent of open water and the duration of the shipping season as defined by the presence of ice near Barrow, Alaska and onward to Prudhoe BIce Severity (BIS) index provides a measure of the extent of open water and the duration of the shipping season as defined by the presence of ice near Barrow, Alaska and onward to Prudhoe Bice near Barrow, Alaska and onward to Prudhoe Bay.

A large area of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is also losing mass, probably because of warmer water deep in the ocean near the Antarctic coast.

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).

''... worked with two sediment cores they extracted from the seabed of the eastern Norwegian Sea, developing a 1000 - year proxy temperature record «based on measurements of δ18O in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, a planktonic foraminifer that calcifies at relatively shallow depths within the Atlantic waters of the eastern Norwegian Sea during late summer,» which they compared with the temporal histories of various proxies of concomitant solar activity... This work revealed, as the seven scientists describe it, that «the lowest isotope values (highest temperatures) of the last millennium are seen ~ 1100 - 1300 A.D., during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, and again after ~ 1950 A.D.» In between these two warm intervals, of course, were the colder temperatures of the Little Ice Age, when oscillatory thermal minima occurred at the times of the Dalton, Maunder, Sporer and Wolf solar minima, such that the δ18O proxy record of near - surface water temperature was found to be «robustly and near - synchronously correlated with various proxies of solar variability spanning the last millennium,» with decade - to century - scale temperature variability of 1 to 2 °C magnitude.»

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.

The Barnett Ice Severity (BIS) Index provides a measure of the extent of open water and the duration of the shipping season as defined by the presence of ice near Barrow, Alaska and onward to Prudhoe BIce Severity (BIS) Index provides a measure of the extent of open water and the duration of the shipping season as defined by the presence of ice near Barrow, Alaska and onward to Prudhoe Bice near Barrow, Alaska and onward to Prudhoe Bay.

This snowpack accumulation near the poles, which gets its water via the Arctic and Antarctic oceans, that in turn rob it from equatorial latitudes of our oceans, also results in a reduction in the earth's spin axis moment of inertia and causes the spin rate to increase as evidenced in the recent history of the rate at which Leap Seconds are added to our calendar (see Wysmuller's Toucan Equation for more on this evidence that during this warm time with much greater polar humidity, earlier seasonal, later seasonal and heavier snows are beginning to move water vapor from the oceans to the poles to re-build the polar ice caps and lead us into a global cooling, while man - made CO2 continues to increase http://www.colderside.com/faq.htm).

As you can see, most of the Central Arctic Basin has ice coverage, with only the portion near Svalbard and Franz Joseph Land, and Severnaya Zemlya, showing open water encroaching above the 80 N parallel into the CAB.

The near absence of planktic foraminifers in the MIS 6 sediments of these cores (Supplementary Figs. 2 and 3) 56 also supports the interpretation of virtually no surface water productivity due to closed sea ice conditions.

Over the course of several years, turbulent water overflow from a large melt lake carved this 60 - foot - deep (18.3 meter - deep) canyon in Greenland's Ice Sheet (note people near left edge for scale).

Droplets of water drip from melting ice on the periphery of the Hornkees glacier near Ginzling, Austria, on August 26, 2016.

These models predicted that the Northern Hemisphere Polar region would warm fastest and first, that the Southern Ocean would draw a greater portion of atmospheric heat into the ocean system, and that land ice melt near Greenland and West Antarctica would generate cold, fresh water flows into the nearby ocean zones and set off localized cooling.

Further, these areas of open water do not occur near the leading edge of the ice in warm water, they only occur near land in previously frozen areas where air and water are cold enough to re-freeze the open water.

Ocean acidification, rising ocean temperatures, declining sea ice, and other environmental changes interact to affect the location and abundance of marine fish, including those that are commercially important, those used as food by other species, and those used for subsistence.16, 17,18,122,19,20,21 These changes have allowed some near - surface fish species such as salmon to expand their ranges northward along the Alaskan coast.124, 125,126 In addition, non-native species are invading Alaskan waters more rapidly, primarily through ships releasing ballast waters and bringing southerly species to Alaska.5, 127 These species introductions could affect marine ecosystems, including the feeding relationships of fish important to commercial and subsistence fisheries.

That open ocean allows fewer thick chunks of ice from near the North Pole and more warm water from the south to accumulate along the Russian coast, causing the summer season of ice - free waterways to be longer in Russia than it is in Canada and Alaska.