Sentences with phrase «polar winter»

Bio-optical sensors would supplement satellite observations of the ocean's color by providing measurements of chlorophyll, light, and light scattering deep into the ocean interior throughout the year, in cloud - and ice - covered areas, or during the dark of polar winter.

The other key factor is that even if chemical conversion into reactive forms occurs during the cold, dark polar winter, the reactive chlorine must stick around until sunlight returns to the polar region for ozone destruction to take place.

I hope you agree that it is quite simple to establish that the deep ocean is cold because of the cold polar winter atmospheres.

«High tilt = Cooler polar summers coupled with warmer polar winters = ice growth (assuming there are continents around to support glaciers).

But some of these owls are not cool with polar winters.

Low tilt = Warmer polar summers and cooler polar winters = ice shrinkage.»

Suck up near - freezing water from under the ice and pump it directly onto the ice's surface during the long polar winter.

Another surprise had occurred that same year between July 14 and 15, during the dark depths of the polar winter.

The tracks were made on the moist sand of a river bank, perhaps following a polar winter, after spring and summer flood waters had subsided, Martin says.

«The biggest question for me,» he adds, «is whether the birds that made these tracks lived at the site during the polar winter, or migrated there during the spring and summer.»

Our visit last summer to the place where Barents» group spent their polar winter was, as far as we know, the first Western scientific expedition to Novaya Zemlya.

Not long after a tough stint of trials in the icy cold of the polar winter, they now have the sun beating down on them from a shimmering blue sky.

Perhaps a bit off - topic — Getting away from the ice sheet surface (and below it), I'm curious as to what kind of effects the presence of atmospheric aerosols have in the polar winter.

In 2016 sea ice in the Arctic Ocean continued to melt during the polar winter — the first time this has been observed in modern history.

This becomes silly because, evidently, the warmer deep ocean water is not too cold to provide warming in a polar winter, an environment that doesn't just cool water down, it freezes it solid.

During the polar winters there is no sun, thus no solar absorption or reflection, so during these months the climate really doesn't care whether we painted the Arctic coal - black or brilliant white — it only cares about temperature of the water and the air.

He sings far beneath the ice in the dark of a polar winter, so maybe itÂ's about time we listened to the incredible songs that this whale concocts every winter, every month and possibly each day!

He sings far beneath the ice in the dark of a polar winter, so maybe it's about time we listened to the incredible songs that this whale concocts every winter, every month and possibly each day!

While the whole world suffers from global warming, here in Quebec we can still enjoy a good old days» polar winter.