Sentences with phrase «reduces ice accumulation»

The antifreeze lowers the freezing point of water and therefore reduces ice accumulation during the flight.

Not exact matches

Researchers have attributed glacial decline to increasing temperatures, which have reduced the period of glacial accumulation and extended the period of summer ice melting (ablation).

Many of the studies which demonstrate the effectiveness of ice baths in reducing inflammation and accumulation of white blood cells (the guys responsible for destroying damaged tissue and creating signals for re-growth) measure this response over a very short time frame - for hours or a couple of days at best.

This 20 - year variability is, however, significantly reduced in the northern (Camp Century and Agassiz Ice Cap) region, likely due to a larger distance from the Atlantic Ocean, and a much lower snow accumulation.

Cooling in the later Holocene resulted appears to have stabilized the inventory at much reduced levels, followed by accumulation of glacier inventory in the Little Ice Age.

Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) data (2003 — 08) show mass gains from snow accumulation exceeded discharge losses by 82 ± 25 Gt a − 1, reducing global sea - level rise by 0.23 mm a − 1.

The Whitechuck Glacier has simply not been happy with the 1.4 o F warming the North Cascade region has experienced since the 19th century, and its reduced income in the form of reduced accumulation, and increased expenditures in the form of increased ablation have led to a negative balance in its glacier ice savings account.