Sentences with phrase «of shelf ice»

Global sea levels could rise by more than 20 feet with the loss of shelf ice in Greenland and Antarctica, devastating coastal areas worldwide.

«Icebergs: Mathematical model calculates the collapse of shelf ice.»

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With the sixth season of Game of Thrones set to air in April, Martin's publishers wanted the latest installment of the A Song of Ice and Fire series to be on shelves by March.

They continue to use Canadian milk in an era when much of the «ice cream» on the shelves is really frozen dessert, more vegetable oil than cream.

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A U.K. - based Antarctic research project called Project MIDAS monitoring the effects of climate change on an ice shelf called Larsen C announced that a vast rift in the rapidly warming pole has split entirely and created a brand new iceberg — the third largest in the world.

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The line quickly expanded beyond strawberry and piña colada, and today Island Oasis has 18 frozen flavors, including non-fat yogurt and ice cream, as well as an aseptic (shelf - stable) line of flavors.

Throughout the years, the Nagles worked to improve the quality of halibut through the monitoring of bleeding and icing procedures, resulting in superior meat textures and a longer shelf life.

This modified - atmosphere packaging (MAP) can extend the shelf life of fresh seafood three times longer than traditional grocery store ice counters, according to Fresher than Fresh.

The yolks will also improve the stability of the ice cream, reducing its tendency to melt quickly, and they will prolong shelf life in the freezer, inhibiting the thaw - re-freeze cycle.

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The results show that with the partial replacement of sucrose with Beneo's functional carbohydrate Palatinose in glazings or icings, shelf - life and overall product quality can be significantly improved.

He is an unabashed collector of newspaper clippings, documents and gimcracks, and the walls and shelves in the office are blanketed with such oddments as ice axes and pitons, a photograph of John Glenn (whom Day resembles), a quotation from President Lyndon Johnson deploring procrastination, college diplomas, membership certificates from the Rotary Club, fraternities, outdoorsmen's clubs and the American Airlines» Admirals Club, and a number of framed letters from such luminaries as Dwight Eisenhower and Stuart Udall.

ROSS ICE SHELF, ANTARCTICA — Any day now, a team of 40 scientists and support personnel expects to begin shoveling ice and snow into a melting bin.

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

In 2015, glaciologist Daniela Jansen reported that a large rift was rapidly growing across one of the Antarctic Peninsula's ice shelves, known as Larsen C.

Warm mountain winds are causing extensive winter melting on the surface of the Larsen C ice shelf, which could contribute to its breakup

To forecast sea level rise, a flotilla of robot subs must map the unseen bottom of a melting ice shelf — if they are not sunk by it

Considering that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets span more than 1.7 million and 14 million square kilometers, respectively, while containing 90 % of the world's freshwater ice supply, melting of ice shelves could be catastrophic for low - lying coastal areas.

«The widespread loss of Antarctic ice shelves, driven by a warming ocean or warming atmosphere, could spell disaster for our coastlines — and there is sound geological evidence that supports what the models are telling us,» said Robert M. DeConto of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a co-author of the study and one of the developers of the ice - sheet model used.

Concern has increased with recent failures of floating Antarctic ice, such as the Wilkins shelf.

It forced the ice to retreat but stopped at about 7,500 years ago, when the belt of westerly winds driving the deep water onto the shelf shifted northwards.

Now large chunks of ice are floating away, and an enormous freshwater lake that floated on top of the 4,000 - year - old shelf has disappeared.

Although Tyler's team pulled its instruments out of the borehole in January 2013, the mooring that held the cable in place remains frozen into the ice shelf, he says — and the team hopes they can get back to it for a longer term monitoring project.

In the mid-1980s all our flights were survey flights: we had 12 hours in the air once we left our base in southern Chile, so we had plenty of time to chat with the pilots about making a forced landing on the ice shelves.

They found that western Antarctica has recently seen warmer, saltier water being driven under the shelf — the part of the ice sheet that sticks out over the ocean (Science, doi.org/xkx).

When it's cold enough to form ice shelves that extend over the Antarctic land mass and into the ocean, much of what drops to the seafloor is sand and gravel that the glacier has picked up on its slow march from the continent's ice cap.

More than once we had lost one of our four engines, and in 1987 a giant crack became persistently visible along the edge of the Larsen B ice shelf, off the Antarctic Peninsula — making it abundantly clear that an emergency landing would be no gentle touchdown.

When the researchers modeled the impacts of these altered winds on Antarctica they found that they could drive warming of up to 1 °C of the waters at the depth of floating ice shelves along the Western Antarctica Peninsula.

The full effects of ice shelf breakup on glacier demise will not be known for some time.

But huge chunks of ice, some the size of a bus, have broken off the shelf.

At that rate, much of the Wilkins ice shelf will be gone in a few years, says glaciologist Ted Scambos of the University of Colorado at Boulder.

And over the past 18 months, two of the peninsula's largest ice shelves, the Larsen B and the Wilkins, have lost nearly 1,100 square miles of their total area, a sheet of ice about the size of Rhode IslandCK.

From 500 feet up everything appeared in miniature except the giant ice shelves — seemingly endless expanses of ice, as thick as the length of several football fields, that float in the Southern Ocean, fringing the ice sheets that virtually cover the Antarctic landmass.

Recording these temperatures continuously can help scientists develop a detailed picture of the physics by which the ocean melts the ice shelves from below, says oceanographer Laurence Padman of Earth & Space Research in Corvallis, Oregon.

«The interesting thing is what happens next, how the remaining ice shelf responds,» said Kelly Brunt, a glaciologist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the University of Maryland in College Park.

While Antarctic ice shelves are in direct contact with both the atmosphere and the surrounding oceans, and thus subject to changes in environmental conditions, they also go through repeated internally - driven cycles of growth and collapse.

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Their scientists flew more than 250,000 kilometres across much of West Antarctica — including the areas draining to the Ross and Ronne ice shelves — and part of East Antarctica, including the famous ice - core - drilling sites Vostok and Dome C.

In particular, the study noted volume loss at the Totten and Moscow University ice shelves, which help buttress a large section of the EAIS.

Scientists still do not know what triggers the breakup of an ice shelf or when future ones will occur, so they struggle to estimate how quickly glaciers will dump their ice into the ocean and therefore how much sea level will rise.

The first documented disappearance of an Antarctic ice shelf occurred around 25 years ago.

Lacking many ice shelves to stem its flow, the glacier is particularly vulnerable to warming, part of the so - called weak underbelly of the West Antarctic Ice Sheice shelves to stem its flow, the glacier is particularly vulnerable to warming, part of the so - called weak underbelly of the West Antarctic Ice SheIce Sheet.

This iceberg, named UK211, had survived for three years since calving off the Larsen C ice shelf 385 kilometers south, but now it was drifting into warm climates north of the peninsula.

Both ice shelves were thousands of years old.

Scientists have drilled into one of the most isolated depths in all of the world's oceans: a hidden shore of Antarctica that sits under 740 meters of ice, hundreds of kilometers in from the sea edge of a major Antarctic ice shelf.