Sentences with phrase «of snow and ice at»

I am still not convinced that reflectivity of water at 24 degrees would be equal to that of snow and ice at the same angle.

But also keep in mind that Lambeck et al (2002) have suggested that loss of permanent ice over the Arctic Sea at the end of the last interglacial allowed for increased accumulation of snow and ice at high latitudes because of the increased amount of moisture available.

With Europe pretty much devoid of snow and ice at this time of the year, Land Rover put Jami, the lead dog, in to the back of the Disco Sport and took him off to the underground Vesileppis Ski Tunnel in Finland to meet the rest of the team (read that as the Discovery Sport is very dog - friendly).

Not exact matches

I've been keeping busy, preparing for classes that were supposed to start yesterday, reading a book for a review due at the end of the month, shoveling the driveway (the first one on the block to do so, with the only emulator being the ex-Marine across the street), and watching DVDs we rented in anticipation of the great blizzard of 2011 (8 inches of snow and ice!).

This fall, a Ph.D. student at UC Irvine tweeted a graph of data collected by the National Snow and Ice Data Center that sparked a firestorm of debate.

Still, we have great heaps of the stuff at last, fluffy and absolutely perfect for making snow ice cream.

Pour contents into a 8 x 12 ″, or similarly sized, pan / Carefully place in a secure, level spot in the freezer / Freeze for 1 — 2 hours / Remove from freezer and scrape, smash and stir mixture with a fork, breaking into small icey bits / Return to the freezer and repeat this process three more times, every 30 minutes / Granita should be done at this point, coarse bits of ice, about like a snow cone / Place granita in container, cover and freeze until ready to use.

That picture of Tenzing Norgay — the second man atop Everest and Hillary's Nepali climbing partner — with one leg in a huge snow boot cocked up on the ice, being captured by someone behind the camera who somehow did not care about taking a selfie at the top.

Of course you'll probably have to watch Frozen for the 217402347th consecutive night in a row but hey, at least it sticks with the snow day theme and if Frozen on Ice comes to town you'll probably have a decent shot being cast as Elsa considering how many times «Let it Go» has gotten stuck in your head.

Caves extend up to 70 feet deep, with some retaining ice and snow well into the middle of summer, while the edge of the limestone cliffs at the Scenic Caves has views of the Georgian Bay and countryside that span 10,000 kilometers.

We visited the Scenic Caves about two years ago in June — we were fascinated to see ice and snow still at the bottom of the caves.

Terry Schwartz recently stared out of his office window at the Skokie Playfield, its mud surface covered with ice and snow, and remembered the summer flood of 2011.

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.

Snow falls lightly at the poles, but as each year's accumulation is compressed into ice, it encases chemical hallmarks of the atmosphere and climate, including traces of major eruptions.

The Dry Valleys are a line of nearly snow - and ice - free valleys in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet at the edge of the Ross Ice Sheice - free valleys in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet at the edge of the Ross Ice SheIce Sheet at the edge of the Ross Ice SheIce Shelf.

Mote was one of 12 lead authors on a chapter of the fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report looking at the cryosphere, which is comprised of snow, river and lake ice, sea ice, glaciers, ice sheets and frozen ground.

Dust found in the ice gives a record of what was in the air thousands of years ago, whether from volcanic eruptions or human activity, and the isotopic composition of the hydrogen and oxygen molecules in the snow give a record of the temperature of the earth at the time.

In an analysis, the National Snow and Ice Data Center said the sea ice extent as of Sept. 16 was 2 million square miles, an amount just below revised estimates for 2009, the former sixth place finisher, said Julienen Stroeve, a scientist at the centIce Data Center said the sea ice extent as of Sept. 16 was 2 million square miles, an amount just below revised estimates for 2009, the former sixth place finisher, said Julienen Stroeve, a scientist at the centice extent as of Sept. 16 was 2 million square miles, an amount just below revised estimates for 2009, the former sixth place finisher, said Julienen Stroeve, a scientist at the center.

«In the last stages, it was like a stack of dominoes,» says Ted Scambos, a glaciologist at the University of Colorado's National Snow and Ice Data Center.

The Antarctic Peninsula holds only a small fraction of the continent's ice, but it is «a natural laboratory,» says Theodore Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. «It's the trailer for the movie that's going to unfold over the rest of Antarctica for the next 50 to 100 years.&raqice, but it is «a natural laboratory,» says Theodore Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. «It's the trailer for the movie that's going to unfold over the rest of Antarctica for the next 50 to 100 years.&raqIce Data Center in Boulder, Colo. «It's the trailer for the movie that's going to unfold over the rest of Antarctica for the next 50 to 100 years.»

The existence of the pole had been known, but the inhospitable landscape presented a barrier until Amundsen's party made the dangerous trek across ice and snow to stand at the geographical South Pole on this day a century ago.

Rasmussen has analysed meteorological data from the time of the accident and he estimates that snow was falling on the plane at the rate of 2.5 millimetres per hour — fast enough to coat the plane's wings with enough ice to cause a crash.

Pettersen's approach involved studying the types of clouds that result in snow on the ice sheet, and examining the distinct paths these clouds take before they produce snow at Summit Station, a longstanding research station located in the middle of Greenland.

While Arrhenius appears to have been wrong about the temperature effect on the Antarctic, scientists today have found strong evidence for what they now call Arctic amplification in the North Pole, said Mark Serreze, the director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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.

But, as scientists including National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator Jane Lubchenco said today at a press conference at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting, record - setting melting happened anyway: record snow melt, record sea ice minimum, melting even at the top of the Greenland ice sheet (in what was once called the «dry snow zone»), and widespread warming of permafrost.

«It may even be possible to predict sea ice cover a year in advance with high - quality observations of sea ice thickness and snow cover over the whole Arctic,» said Cecilia Bitz, co-author and professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington.

Hundreds of ice cores taken from around the world will be stored for several centuries in a snow cave at -54 °C in Antarctica, at the Concordia station, which is run by the French Polar Institute (IPEV) and the Italian Antarctic Research program (PNRA).

David Ullman, a postdoctoral researcher at Oregon State University and lead author on the study, said there are two mechanisms through which ice sheets diminish — dynamically, from the jettisoning of icebergs at the fringes, or by a negative «surface mass balance,» which compares the amount of snow accumulation relative to melting.

Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), University College London, University of New Hampshire and University of Washington analyzed 300 summer Arctic sea ice forecasts from 2008 to 2013 and found that forecasts are quite accurate when sea ice conditions are close to the downward trend that has been observed in Arctic sea ice for the last 30 yeaIce Data Center (NSIDC), University College London, University of New Hampshire and University of Washington analyzed 300 summer Arctic sea ice forecasts from 2008 to 2013 and found that forecasts are quite accurate when sea ice conditions are close to the downward trend that has been observed in Arctic sea ice for the last 30 yeaice forecasts from 2008 to 2013 and found that forecasts are quite accurate when sea ice conditions are close to the downward trend that has been observed in Arctic sea ice for the last 30 yeaice conditions are close to the downward trend that has been observed in Arctic sea ice for the last 30 yeaice for the last 30 years.

When it's 20 below, Dr. Michael Twiss, professor at Clarkson University, has been known to clear the snow and lie down on the thick ice of a frozen lake and stare up at the Northern Lights.

Drawing on odd, icy - looking landforms in earlier images, he and colleagues proposed in 2003 that in the geologic past, snow - fed glaciers and ice fields had covered much of the lower latitudes of Mars at the expense of the polar ice caps (Science, 11 April 2003, p. 234).

Director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Serreze spoke to DISCOVER about the future of the place he loves.

«Within a few months» of a breakup, explains glaciologist Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the glacier «accelerates significantly, and within a year or two, it can be moving [toward the ocean] up to four times as fast as it moved when the ice shelf was intact.&raqIce Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the glacier «accelerates significantly, and within a year or two, it can be moving [toward the ocean] up to four times as fast as it moved when the ice shelf was intact.&raqice shelf was intact.»

Moon started back as a researcher at CU Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center, part of CIRES, May 1.

Snow and cold air enter the caves through openings at the top and are then unable to escape, creating a refrigerated environment in which some of the walls and floors become covered in solid ice.

Using an instrument called a mass spectrometer, scientists could peer at molecules of ice and learn the temperature on the day that the snow fell.

This year «will without a doubt» rank in the top five lowest levels of ice extent ever recorded in the satellite era, and there is a good possibility that 2013 could rank second in terms of recorded ice lows, said Walt Meier, a scientist at the National Snow & Ice Data Centice extent ever recorded in the satellite era, and there is a good possibility that 2013 could rank second in terms of recorded ice lows, said Walt Meier, a scientist at the National Snow & Ice Data Centice lows, said Walt Meier, a scientist at the National Snow & Ice Data CentIce Data Center.

Here, at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide, Kendrick Taylor and his team of glaciologists drill into ancient ice to pull up ice cores, which trap bubbles of the atmosphere from the time that ice fell as snIce Sheet Divide, Kendrick Taylor and his team of glaciologists drill into ancient ice to pull up ice cores, which trap bubbles of the atmosphere from the time that ice fell as snice to pull up ice cores, which trap bubbles of the atmosphere from the time that ice fell as snice cores, which trap bubbles of the atmosphere from the time that ice fell as snice fell as snow.

The beginning of the last glacial period was characterized in the Northern hemisphere by significant accumulation of snow at high latitudes and the formation of a huge polar ice sheet.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.

At its height between 1960 and 1980, Polyarka was staffed by more than fifty working scientists, engineers, and technicians focused on measurements of surface weather, snow depth, sea ice, and conditions in the upper atmosphere.

New research suggests that water came from melting snow and ice present at the time of the crater - forming impact.

In the past 15 years, the oceans have warmed, the amount of snow and ice has diminished and sea levels have risen, explains Lisa Goddard, an expert in climate variability at Columbia University.

Forget snow and ice — it's time to think summer at the University of Michigan Medical School for college students interested in medical science careers.

With the albedo of older snow and ice at about 0.6, the open ocean will absorb more heat than the ice capped ocean.

One example that I wasn't previously aware of, were the climate events of 536 AD — «dry fogs», crop failures, «dim suns» and yellow snow etc. — features consistent with a large volcanic eruption, possibly near the site of Krakatoa — and which correlates with evidence of a sulphate peak in the North GRIP ice core at the same time.

AWS AIR, AWS GUN — Simon Steffen of Swiss Institute for Forests, Snow and Ice (WSL) of a new Automatic Weather Station at the Romnoes Blue Icefield, donated to the International Polar Foundation by the University of Colorado and WSL in Zurich.

The new estimates are reasonable considering the rates of glacier change scientists are seeing at the moment, says Dr Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, who wasn't involved in the study.

The space agency is launching these missions at a time when decades of observations from the ground, air, and space have revealed signs of change in Earth's ice sheets, sea ice, glaciers, snow cover and permafrost.