Sentences with phrase «reach the grounding line»

This could be do to changes in ocean circulation, and warming waters reaching the grounding lines for ice shelves in Arctic and Antarctica, leading to non-linear increase in melting and sea level rise, impossible to avoid on our current path.

Not exact matches

Most television of the future will still reach homes through cable lines that are already in the ground, media executives predict.

Jesse's knees on the ground with the ball; reached across the goal line - ergo the ball broke the plane of the goal line.

I despise doctrinaire two party boosters who refuse to accept the fact that people can reach across party lines and find commoin ground.

The height of these cliffs made them unstable, triggering the release of thousands of icebergs into Pine Island Bay, and causing the glacier to retreat rapidly until its grounding line reached a restabilising point in shallower water.

As Hartmut Hellmer explains, «When it comes to the Amundsen Sea, where warm water has already reached the continental shelf and even the grounding line of some ice shelves, we can safely say that this inflow of heat can not be stopped; the climate regime change has already taken place.

Smith's retreat might slow down now that its grounding line has reached bedrock that rises farther inland of the 2014 grounding line.

There may be areas which already would float if they could, and which therefore will float very rapidly when the grounding line reaches them.

Rapid losses of 1 mm per year will ensue once the grounding line reaches the basin's deepest parts, which could occur within two centuries.

Once melt passed 1 mm per year, rapid collapse (within decades) occurred as the grounding line reached the deepest parts of the marine basin (for reference, total global sea level rise today is ~ 3 mm per year, so this is a significant contribution!).

Continue to tip the torso toward the ground, lifting the right leg toward the sky until your entire torso reaches a diagonal line from earth to sky.

How - to: From a high lunge, reach your arms straight forward, shift your weight forward to balance on your front foot, and bring your arms, body and back leg all in one line parallel to the ground.

Their coats are lined with hides and have sleeves that reach the ground.

The green Koopa Troopas will walk in a straight line until they reach a wall, but red Koopa Troopas turn around when they reach a drop in the ground.

There are few other signs of life in these large, ground - floor rooms, and those there are speak of suspension, abdication, displacement and substitution: a long heartrending letter from an artist explaining how personal crisis has forced him to withdraw (Kai Althoff); the politically and logistically improbable journey of a Picasso from the Netherlands to Palestine (Khaled Hourani); Tammy Wynette forever stuck on the line «I'll just keep on», never quite reaching «Til I get it right», the song's eponymous lyrical and melodic resolution (Ceal Floyer).

There may be areas which already would float if they could, and which therefore will float very rapidly when the grounding line reaches them.

His fellow Swede, physicist Anders Ångström, disputed Arrhenius's theory on the ground that the absorption bands would have saturated well before reaching that level, but what neither Swede knew back then was that CO2 had more than 30,000 absorption lines most at strengths insufficient to play any role until CO2 had reached far higher than the 6000 ppm of a hundred million years ago.

In 2009, using ICESat, measurements of both Greenland and Antarctica found that dynamic thinning (ice loss resulting from accelerated glacier flow) now reached all latitudes in Greenland, and had intensified at key areas of Antarctica's grounding line.

By about 2070, these warm waters will have drained the cavity beneath the ice shelf, and will reach the line between floating sea ice and grounded ice sitting on the seabed within 14 more years.

Ice sheets resting on retrograde beds are inherently unstable, because once the grounding lines reach the edge of the «bowl», they will eventually retreat all the way to the bottom of the «bowl» even if the ocean water intruding beneath the ice doesn't get any warmer.

Now if you are talking of one isolated warm N2 molecule moving isolated in empty space you would be correct, it could not radiate except at it's emission lines and once it reached it's ground electron, vibration and rotational state it could not radiate at all, zero, zip, none.