Sentences with phrase «rotten ice»

It's rank in the 30 year record would would offer an interesting angle on the prevalence of rotten ice this year.

They found that invasion of seawater into rotten ice and decay of first - year ice resulted in a complex mixture of ice types not distinguished properly in remote sensing data.

That's what human emissions of greenhouse gases have done to the Arctic, covered it in rotten ice.

Led by UCLA graduate student Matthew Cooper, the researchers are attempting to better explain how rotten ice traps water.

Recently published research by Barber and colleagues shows that the ice cover was even more fragile at the end of the melt season than satellite data indicated, with regions of the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas covered by small, rotten ice floes.

In East Central Wisconsin, the sturgeon spearing season came to an abrupt, early end as dozens of ice fisher's cars fell through rotten ice... in February, fer God sake.

In early September, NSIDC described large areas of rotten ice in an advanced state of disintegration.

«I said guys, there's tons of algae growing in this rotten ice.»

Some of the meltwater from the lakes and rivers atop the region's glaciers, which end in large sinkholes called «moulins» and barrel down through the glacier, is being stored and trapped on top of the glacier inside a low - density, porous «rotten ice.»

They have tracked the rotten ice to a depth of nearly 3 feet below the surface — a finding that could help scientists who develop climate models to better understand how ice sheets are losing mass.

Preliminary reports from leg 3 are rotten ice, extensive towards ice edge at Franz Josef Land, and melt ponds freezing over.

Instead, his ice breaker found hundreds of miles of what he called «rotten ice» — 50 - cm (20 - inch) thin layers of fresh ice covering small chunks of older ice.

Rotten ice — good term.