Sentences with phrase «seasonal ice undergoes»
Our analysis of observations from four years of field experiments indicates that seasonal ice undergoes an albedo evolution with seven phases; cold snow, melting snow, pond formation, pond drainage, pond evolution, open water, and freezeup.
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Although the boardwalk had undergone a major overhaul in 2010, years of gradual deterioration, compounded by long - term impacts from the aquatic environment and seasonal weather, such as snow and ice, forced its closure in March of 2016.
The reason is that if an ice sheet is at a temperature of say ~ 20 oC where it never undergoes a seasonal melt, then even a very large temperature increase (say 10 oC) isn't going to make it melt either!
When the flux is increased, the planet undergoes a decrease in surface albedo which is due to the melting of the permanent polar ice caps and the reduced seasonal snow cover.
It is undergoing dramatic change with retreat of the permanent, as well as seasonal, ice.