Sentences with phrase «on ice flowing»

Up north when somone is old and sick we put them on an ice flow and give it a shove out to sea.

Documentary footage: A seal is napping on an ice flow.

The glaciological community has for decades harbored the widespread belief that the thermal evolution of the ice sheet, and the effect of this evolution on ice flow, are central in the ice - age cycling (not all communities agree, but there is plenty of literature on this from the land - ice crowd), so use of a temperature - independent rheology for the ice leaves out one favored explanation for termination of extensive glaciation.

The ancient rift basin, filled with ice, is linked to the warming oceanthat has an effect on ice flow, according to the report in Nature this week.

How many hundreds of thousands of polar bears died starving and were lost, adrift on an ice flow due to the global warming?

These observations reveal a widespread, dynamic subglacial water system which may exert an important control on ice flow and mass balance.

Not exact matches

The delays are draining cash flow and probably explain Bombardier's decision, announced a few weeks ago, to put its Learjet program on ice.

He goes on to note the more recent discoveries that have been made including finding flowing water on Mars, signs of ice on one of Jupiter's moons, other planets out in the distance and a high - resolution mapping of Pluto.

Radar measurements and models of Earthly glacial ice flows led researchers to conclude that the glaciers spotted on Mars from orbiters contain nearly 150 billion cubic meters of water.

Next year, the team will install seismometers to listen in on the flow of water through and beneath the ice, and to crevasse formation.

Today the small amount of water detected on the planet is locked in the polar ice caps, but recently discovered geological features suggest liquid water once flowed on its surface.

Once on that lowland, the bergs are carried along by the slow - flowing nitrogen ice, often ending up clumped together in large groups (such as the 60 - km - long Challenger Colles, upper right, a feature whose name honors the seven astronauts who died onboard space shuttle Challenger in 1986).

This band of malleable ice (center) may have flowed upward between two ancient terrains on Jupiter's moon Ganymede in a process similar to seafloor spreading on Earth.

Curiosity's discovery in 2012 further supports the possibility that water once flowed on Mars, and we've known for a while that the poles are home to a mix of water and carbon dioxide ice.

The mystery of how water on Mars lasted for millions of years may come down to methane explosions that warmed the planet enough to melt ice and make rivers flow

Some glaciers on the perimeter of West Antarctica are receiving increased heat from deep, warm ocean currents, which melt ice from the grounding line, releasing the brake and causing the glaciers to flow and shed icebergs into the ocean more quickly.

Changes in flow patterns of warm Pacific Ocean air from the south were driving earlier spring snowmelt, while decreasing summer sea ice had the greatest influence on later onset of snowpack in the fall.

Once on Ceres» surface, the Slurpee - like material couldn't flow far, and it slowly built up a 3 - mile - high ice volcano.

But now, a vulnerable glacier on the other side of the island, part of a massive flow of ice known as the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, shows that yet another region of Greenland is feeling the effects of warming oceaice known as the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, shows that yet another region of Greenland is feeling the effects of warming oceaIce Stream, shows that yet another region of Greenland is feeling the effects of warming oceans.

Rising temperatures since the 1950s probably quickened the ice flow, which in turn put more strain on the ice and further weakened the shelf, says study coauthor Hongxing Liu, a geographer at the University of Cincinnati.

«East Antarctica is sliding sideways: Ice loss on West Antarctica affecting mantle flow below.»

The irradiated ice took on another liquidlike feature: Between about 185 ° C and 161 ° C, it flowed like refrigerated honey, despite being well below its melting temperature, Tachibana adds.

«Loss of ice shelves surrounding the Antarctic continent could have a major effect on the rate of ice flow off the continent,» Scambos notes.

«This huge channel means that a lot of the water being generated in north Greenland is not having a big impact on [ice] flow,» says Bamber.

Since a thinner ice shell retains less heat, the tidal effects caused by Saturn on the large fractures in the ice at the south pole are no longer enough to explain the strong heat flow affecting this region.

Now, warming seawater intruding underneath has loosened the glaciers» grip on bedrock, speeding their flow toward the sea and causing increasing amounts of ice to break off into the ocean.

In fact, learning about the lakes and rivers could shed light (albeit from a very dark place) on weighty matters ranging from ice - sheet stability — how much do the lakes enhance the flow of ice toward the sea?

This direct observation confirms a long - held suspicion that the static electron arrangement and associated nanoscale fluctuations impair the free flow of electrons — like ice on a river impairs the flow of liquid water, Davis said.

CLIMATE CALAMITIES As ice shelves on the Southern Antarctic Peninsula weaken, glaciers flow faster into the sea.

These forces occur on Earth in glacial ice as it flows due to gravity, and in space as icy satellite bodies, such as the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, respond to tidal forces from their parent bodies.

She devoured papers on glaciology, memorized equations that dictated how deeply buried water and ice flow under pressure, and peppered Blankenship's team with questions about how ice works on our own planet.

It was thought that the water quickly flowed between ice and rock and out to sea, with little impact on the bottom ice layers.

According to Pappalardo, Greenberg's results can be explained by flows of warmer ice like those found in glaciers on Earth.

Without the ice sheet that is now weighing down Greenland's terrain, a river in the canyon would, on average, drop about 30 centimeters for every kilometer it flowed seaward, the team estimates.

Hu's experiments, for example, show everything from the thickness of ice as it flows over a wing, the heat transfer of individual water droplets as they freeze, the irregular speed of freezing droplets on a wing or blade and the finger - like patterns of ice formation.

«The paper reports a fascinating result,» said Richard Alley, a glaciologist at Pennsylvania State University, «that melting beneath deep ice produces water that flows beneath thinner ice and refreezes, and that this has been going on long enough to make a big refrozen layer.»

That warm ice could slowly rise and flow, much like glaciers on Earth, but it would present a daunting barrier to life.

Qiang Wei at Peking University in China and his colleagues calculated that nitrogen ice, which is softer than water ice, on Pluto's plains may flow like molasses to fill in craters as they form.

Analyzing declassified images from spy satellites, researchers discovered that the downhill flow of ice on Antarctica's Larsen B ice shelf was already accelerating as early as the 1960s and»70s.

These ices sublimate and condense on seasonal time scales and flow glacially.

Combining the speed and thickness measurements allowed the scientists to determine how much ice was flowing into the ocean, while the climate model allowed them to estimate how much snow was falling on the ice sheet.

Ice heated by the eruption forms what may currently be the greatest flow of freshwater on Earth.

Since so much of the ice sheet is grounded underwater, rising sea levels may have the effect of lifting the sheets, allowing more - and increasingly warmer - water underneath it, leading to further bottom melting, more ice shelf disintegration, accelerated glacial flow, and further sea level rise, and so on and on, another vicious cycle.

Based on a model that excludes ice sheet flow due to a lack of basis in published literature, it is estimated that sea level rise will be, in a low scenario, 18 to 38 cm (7 to 15 inches) and in a high scenario, 26 to 59 cm (10 to 23 inches).

On the other hand, if the ice shell is sufficiently thick, the less intense interior heat can be transferred to warmer ice at the bottom of the shell, with additional heat generated by tidal flexing of the warmer ice which can slowly rise and flow as do glaciers do on Earth; this slow but steady motion may also disrupt the extremely cold, brittle ice at the surface to produce the chaos regionOn the other hand, if the ice shell is sufficiently thick, the less intense interior heat can be transferred to warmer ice at the bottom of the shell, with additional heat generated by tidal flexing of the warmer ice which can slowly rise and flow as do glaciers do on Earth; this slow but steady motion may also disrupt the extremely cold, brittle ice at the surface to produce the chaos regionon Earth; this slow but steady motion may also disrupt the extremely cold, brittle ice at the surface to produce the chaos regions.

If ice is moving on Europa, this also means that water is flowing, at least near its equator.

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